MORNING EXERCISE The most important factor in a successful exercise program is to exercise first thing in the morning... every morning! Some mornings, you may just be able to fit in a 10 minute walk, but it's important to try to do something every morning. So why mornings?... · Over 90% of people who exercise consistently, exercise in the morning. · When you exercise early in the morning, it "jump starts" your metabolism and keeps it elevated for hours. · When you exercise in the morning you'll be energized ... Read More

So, are you up for a new challenge this New Year? You make appointment for everyone else all day long, make one for yourself. Come in and try out a few classes on us. We're sure that you'll find out the only way to train is not by yourself, but with a group (read: family) of people who will keep you accountable and who are dedicated to you getting results. How many New Years Resolutions have you set and forgot about because you didn't ... Read More

WHO: ...well, YOU! and everyone else at Leadership Academy and others in the community will be teaming up with “Charter For Compassion” to perform Acts of Compassion for the Holidays. WHEN: The entire month of December. WHERE: Anywhere Compassion is needed. WHAT: We will complete and record 100-500 Acts of Compassion to help spread good to our community. Your contribution could be the smallest acts of compassion to much larger ones. (These can also count toward your belt rank requirements) YOUR role in this project ... Read More

Acts of Compassion Project CHALLENGE We have around 100 Students who train in our martial arts school. If every student completes just 5 Acts of Compassion in our community, we'll have completed 500 AOK for the holidays Add Your AOK To Comments Section HERE! Can you do 10-50 each!? Read More

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At Leadership Academy, we are dedicated to providing training that goes WAY beyond kicking and punching. Our students are learning to be leaders, not through talking about leadership, but through action. We are family - and according to David Logan, we are a Tribe. This video asks, what kind of tribe are we? At TEDxUSC, David Logan talks about the five kinds of tribes that humans naturally form -- in schools, workplaces, even the driver's license bureau. By understanding our shared tribal tendencies, ... Read More

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~TOM CALLOS (From his blog post at http://ubbt.squarespace.com/our-blog-read-it/2009/8/12/ubbt-graduate-gary-engels-and-students-document-100-communit.html) Gary Engels is an Extraordinary Student and Teacher of the Martial Arts. He's one of those rare individuals who takes action, who follows through on ideas, and who isn't afraid to proceed, even when "how to proceed" is uncertain. The video above features Gary praising his students for successfully documenting their first 100 community projects. This is, as far as I know, the very first martial arts school in the world that has purposely set out to achieve ... Read More

100 Projects Video. This is a look at our Project Portfolio in pictures. I've tried to explain what we do with Project Based Leadership Training here. Hope you like it. (Please Comment Below - you will have to login - but please share your thoughts) 100 Projects - Our Project Portfolio from Gary Engels on Vimeo. Read More

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