A Gift of a Lifetime Just for Yourself

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MERRY CHRISTMAS, HAPPY HOLIDAY, and PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR!

I’m shown here in our hangar with a P-51 Mustang like the one Maverick (Tom Cruise) was flying in TOP GUN:MAVERICK and also made an appearance in the Lady Gaga video-soundtrack singing Hold My Hand. I’m 65 years old when this was taken today at our hangar.

By: Charles W. Boatright

A Gift of a Lifetime Just for Yourself– How to get into the Best Shape Even if You’re Over 50 Years Old and Want to Look and to Feel Better

Most of you will be making New Year Resolutions to lose weight and to get into better shape, that are the top two resolutions made between Christmas and New Years. But before you go out and start hitting the gym in your pursuit of your goals, let me give you a little advice.

MY ADVICE– Focus first and foremost on WHAT & WHEN you eat. Your quest to lose will be a lot easier when you can turn your body into a Turbocharged-Calories-Burning-Juggernaut! I personally dropped 6.00- inches in 8- weeks starting on November 28th, 2014, right during the Holiday Season, refer to my Waistline Chart Below:

I went from a waistline of 37.75– inches on November 28th, 2014 down to a waistline of 31.75– inches by February 27th, 2014. That was 6- inches off my waistline in just 8- weeks. But I did stop there, I dropped down to a waistline of 28.50– inches where I’m at now, 7- years later.

My Waistline Chart that I kept while losing weight.

You can’t achieve your health and fitness goals just by hitting the gym alone. The success of achieving your health and fitness objectives will depend heavily on your diet of WHAT and WHEN that you have at meals that accounts for 80 percent of your efforts. While 20 percent will be based on your fitness. But DO NOT Neglect your WORKOUTS, I will tell you why later!

But First Start with a Critique of Your Health & Fitness First

You are going to need a little motivation before your start, and the best critique of your health and fitness, will be your skin, waistline, and wrists that are your key indicators. Of course the critical indicators are your blood pressure, blood glucose, and cholesterol levels that you can track on a weekly basis. I have dropped these as well- My Blood Pressure runs 116/63 Pulse Rate of 62; NON-Fasting Blood Glucose is 112; and Total Cholesterol- 178.

Key Indicators:

Skin– Gauge your skin by your skin that you had 10-to-20 years earlier.

Waistline– Take one-half your height in inches and divide by half. For example my 65/2 = 32.50- inches is my recommended waistline. But because I model, I had to go down to a 28.50- inch waist, because the camera adds 3- inches to your waist.

Wrist– You should be able to take your thumb and middle finger of your left hand and wrap it around your right wrist where the tips of your left thumb and left middle finger touch, or even better, overlap slightly, if you are right-handed. If you are left-handed, use the right hand and grip your left wrist.

Your Best Motivator in Your Quest to get into Shape

One of the best motivators for getting into better shape is through the lens of the camera. The camera lens offers a great snapshot of your current health and fitness status that is your biggest indicator. This will provide you with a true picture of your skin and waistline. We don’t often think of our skin as a portrait of our health, but it is.

TOP ACE U.S. NAVY FIGHTER WEAPONS SCHOOL Collection

Back in September of 2022, after we did a photoshoot for our TOP ACE U.S. NAVY FIGHTER WEAPONS SCHOOL Collection, I probably did one of the most challenging photo poses one can do, especially at age 65. I did an AB Challenge in our hangar leaning up against my INDIAN Scout Bobber without a shirt or T-shirt, below. This was for a photograph for my book.

This was taken in October after we did a photoshoot for our TOP ACE U.S. NAVY Collection. I did a AB Challenge for my diet and fitness book that I wrote that is on KINDLE. I’m 65 years old in the photograph leaning up against my INDIAN Scout Bobber 60.

Breaking It Down for Healthy and Fitness for Younger Looking Skin Starts with DELPHI

DELPHI– Stands for Diet, Exercise, Lifestyle, Performance Health Index            

DIET

The diet part of DELPHI is a dual component consisting of WHAT coupled with WHEN to eat. The WHAT is having your meals composed of menu items that are at or below a Health Index (HI) factor of 3.25 this is gathered from 9 data points off the standard Nutrition Label on food products. This will be your key in dropping your weight and inches. The Health Index (HI) factor identifies foods that are high in Protein, Fiber, and Omega-3 but low in sugars, including those hidden sugars, your starches.

The WHEN is eating your meals between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. This is the time your body metabolizes your food at the most effective rate without storing it as fat. The WHEN you eat also impacts the health of your skin for that 10-to-20 year age-defying look. Eating past 6 p.m. adversely impacts your body’s natural ability to repair and rejuvenate your skin during the night while sleeping.

See there is some truth to Beauty Sleep, after all!

Within two months (8- weeks), I found that not only did I drop 6.00- inches off my waist, but I also dropped 25- years off the age and condition of my skin. In the featured photograph and the AB Challenge, above, I’m 65- years old.

EXERCISE

This photograph was taken on July, 02, 2022 at age 64 by a fellow photographer that needed a man working out on a boxing bag for an article one of her clients was writing.

I work out 45-minutes six times a week in my own gym following what I call the CAST Workout Program based on Cardio-Aerobics and Strength Training, that also includes a boxing bag workout. The CAST not only tones and strengthens your muscles, but also tones and strengthens the health and condition of your skin. This will be the biggest advantage of The DELPHI DIET & FITNESS System that you will gain. Because, I don’t know too many women or men that wouldn’t want to have younger looking skin.

Here why The DELPHI DIET & FITNESS System works so well– Right beneath your skin are what we call Fibroblast Natural Growth Hormone (FNGH) receptors that respond very well to high protein, high fiber diets and exercises, and especially strength and conditioning training. This is what I was referring to in the fourth paragraph about the importance of your fitness workout. The FNGH receptors are responsible for producing the collagen for the health and condition your skin needs for that healthier looking skin from your diet and exercises.

If you have never or hadn’t worked out for a long period of time do one important thing, start slow and have follow a light workout until you can build your strength and stamina to working out for over 20- minutes. I also workout in my strength training with 20 reps per set; doing four sets. If you want to use a great technique to build your stamina, have one- minute of rest period between each set. It isn’t the amount of weight you can lift; but the number of reps that is important.

The photograph, above, with me in my gym working out on the bag, is all the exercise equipment and weights that I use during my workout sessions. If you have sciatic nerve issues like I do from flying long hours in a 206(D) Bell Jet Ranger you develop nerve issues. Two exercise elements that I use are the Elastic Tubing Rowing Exercise and the Ab Roller. I have eliminated my sciatic nerve issues.

These are two great sciatic nerve exercises that can be done to relieve sciatic nerve issues. The Elastic Tubing Rowing and AB Roller Exercises. I do four sets of 20 reps each.

Lifestyle of Keeping Active and Engaged

This was taken on November 12th, 2022 when Mississippi State University was playing The University of Georgia. It was Veterans Night. I enjoy attending and reporting on SEC Football Games. One thing I have noticed is that the football talent coming out of the high schools is ready for college Gameday.

Develop hobbies and be active in some form of sport, as a participant and as a spectator, because sports engages your mind, body, and soul. Anticipation has enormous benefits as a great motivator and force for your health and wellbeing especially in social settings.

Also while you are working, begin to develop a hobby, this hobby will become your next career after you retire based on your own terms and conditions. My hobbies that I developed while working were welding, golfing, flying, riding my motorcycle, sports writing, and running my sportswear business where I even model my line of sportswear at age 65. If you want to challenge your health and fitness, have someone take photographs of you posing.

I depend heavily on my Diet, Exercise, and Lifestyle to allow me to model with young ladies that are a third of my age.

This was taken in our hangar on December 02, 2022 showing our A-2 Leather Flight Jackets that also comes in ladies sizes as well.

           

Eight (8) Step to Better Health & Fitness

·         Take and check your blood pressure, blood glucose, and cholesterol levels regularly.

·         Measure your waistline regularly, your waistline should be under one-half your height in inches. For example my height is 65- inches my waistline should be 32.50- inches. Actually my waist is 28.50- inches that I check regularly.

·         Have a diet that is based on WHAT– high in Protein, dietary fiber, and Omega-3 but very low in sugar and the hidden sugars, those pesky starches that are so tantalizing, because they are laced with salt.

·         WHEN you eat, between 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Remember nothing ever good happens eating past 6 p.m.

·         Exercise on a regular basis that includes Aerobic-Cardio and Strength Training.

·         Have time for yourself in nature for walks and reading.

·         Develop a hobby or two that can become your part-time job when you retire. The best way to avoid looking and feeling your age is to have something you enjoy doing after you retire. My hobbies are welding, sports writing, flying, and working on my farm.

·         Above all, get your annual physical.