To grasp how important Sports, Fitness, and Appearance is to our life, Coach Deion Sanders, Head Football Coach of the University of Colorado, just issued a directive yesterday, Thursday, August 21, 2025, reported by FOX NEWS:
From FOX NEWS– Coach Sanders issued a directive- That goes beyond just athletic discipline and extends to shaping his players into respectful individuals, both on and off the field. He believes that attention to detail in their appearance translates to discipline and respect, which can ultimately lead to both academic and athletic success. Coach Sanders’ directive above shows how important Character and Charisma is to our attitudes, performance, and the success we achieve in life. How we look impacts how we feel and present ourselves to others. This and my following article explain how our charisma truly our best fashion statement is.
In 2014, I developed a fitness program to get and keep myself in shape before I retired at age 57 to start my sports fitness, health, and Aviation gear business. I was anticipating traveling and knew the importance of First Impressions was in business, like in fashion. My diet and fitness were so successful that I wrote a book, Catabolic Diet & Fitness Program (on KINDLE) that I tailored toward pilots for their health and fitness in order for they could pass their medical exams.
Commercial pilots over the age of 40 are required to have semiannual medical exams. Pilots, like all of us, are concerned about their weight that has a direct impact on their blood sugar, blood pressure, and their cholesterol levels that can ground them.
Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. MAHA Movement and JFK Article in Sports Illustrated
This has become a major priority of our Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in his MAHA Movement of get American back in Shape. Even before his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, ran for President, he expressed concern for American’s health and fitness back then. You only have to look at 1960’s film to know we are actually in worst shape now than when President Kennedy wrote his article for Sports Illustrated, entitled, The Soft American.
Here’s a Great Incentive for you to get into Shape
Here’s a great incentive to make your health and fitness a major priority by following my CARSTSON Diet & Fitness Program that has been a very effective program for me over 11- years.
Here is a simple experiment that you can perform– When you shop either in stores, from catalogs, or online, notice how great those clothes look on mannequins or models that inspire us to purchase their clothing. The stores know very well that imaging is everything. This is the importance of First Impression has on all of us in stores and finally on us. When you see something, it draws your eye to that image.
The True Test of our Fitness that is the Best Fashion Statement
When you get back home or when those clothes arrive at your doorstep, try the clothes on and see if they look as good on you as they did on those mannequins or models that you saw. Just don’t rely on a mirror only, but take photographs. This is what I mean about your best fashion statement that you’ll have is your fitness and charisma, because the clothes are the same ones featured in those ads.
Fitness is Your Biggest Fashion Statement
Just to prove how fitness is actually your biggest fashion statement, look how a man or women that wears basic ordinary pair of blue jeans with a button-down Oxford Shirt with cowboy boots and a leather flight jacket can actually look as great as someone wearing a $500.00 tailored suit. At least Tiffany does in the photograph above. And at least the man or woman is more comfortable in their blue jeans.
Just to prove that fitness is your best fashion statement, look at the fashion statement made by Syndey Sweeney when her ad aired where she was wearing a basic pair of American Eagle Blue Jeans. If you want to see how a fitness statement can make an impression even financially, look at how Syndey Sweeney’s ad impact the American Eagle Stock prices, despite WOKE press coverage, it hit record prices. Not only did American Eagle Blue Jeans flew off the shelve, but their stock rose by 18% within a week.
In reference to a simple but classic fashion and investment, I would like to draw your attention to a friend of my, Kenny Polcari, a contributor for FOX BUSINESS on Varney and The Money Show. Kenny Polcari exemplifies that gentleman squire-look with a simple causal style. He is the best as they come in both fashion and investment, he is worth tuning into when he is on FOX BUSINESS.
Now, the Syndey Sweeney American Eagle ad wasn’t the only thing that went vial across all forms of media. What is even more impressive is how Syndey can handle a GLOCK in a rapid-fire action where she hit all her targets. I was even impressed with how Syndey handles her sidearm for someone that handles sidearms on a regular basis.
The Regeneration of CARSTON Fitness Technique
CARSTON is Cardio-Aerobics Resistance Strength Training Optimization Nordic Technique. The term Nordic is a Post Workout Cool Down that I do by icing in a bath water at no lower than 55 degrees Fahrenheit. Icing turns white fat that is difficult for the body to burn as energy into Brown fat that the body can burn easier, especially in the Abdominal area.
The CARSTON Strength Training Component
One of the biggest advantages of CARSTON Technique is Strength Training component. Here is an amazing secret about strength training, when muscles are worked using resistance (i.e., dumbbells, bar bells, Medicine Ball, or elastic resistance tubing), they produce a natural growth hormone that is released that contains collagen.
Strength training is important if you are especially approaching or are over 30. The reason is age 30 is when cell regeneration starts to slow down, then by our 60’s cell regeneration stops in most cases, in other words, you are on your own. You DO NOT want to be your own when it comes to aging, you want a strength component with your cardio-aerobic components.
What strength training does is it redefine what the normal aging process is by continuing cell regeneration as if you have a body when you were in your 20’s or 30’s, I have proven this technique. Strength training builds resilience in your body where it can repair, replace, and regenerate at a faster pace, independent of your age, in other words, it redefines and also defies your age.
Besides having younger looking skin and toned abdominal muscles, it is a significant factor not just in aesthetics, but in your general health and fitness, especially for your cardiovascular and cognitive health. You don’t want to lose either one. Above, I’m shown after we did a photoshoot in April of 2025 where I’m doing what I refer to as an AB Challenge.
Burn More Calories by adding Muscle Mass
Here’s the real advantage of strength Training- For even pound of muscle that you add, your body will burn 50 additional calories per day/night, even while you are sleeping. Generally, I burn approximately 525 calories during one of my 45-minute workouts; but if you add just 10- pounds of muscle, then you’re burning 500 additional calories per day/night. That should get your additional on the importance and advantages of strength training.
The Significance of The Catabolic Diet of WHAT & WHEN to Eat
What I found interesting with WHAT I was eating with a MAC Score at or below 3.25, where I used just 9 data points off the standard nutrition label these low MAC Score were foods that help prevent the onsite of Alzheimer’s as noted in the list, below that I compiled. Food items that are in the category of fermentable complex carbohydrates such as beans and sauerkraut are great foods to add to your diet for heart and brain health.
With sauerkraut you are getting complex carbohydrates along with the benefits of apple cider vinegar. If the truth was know, I could live just on eating pinto beans for lunch and dinner with a jalapeño pepper that contains capsaicin for nerve regeneration and a whole wheat roll that I bake. And you can’t dismiss the benefits of ice tea.
Significance of the CARSTON Fitness Workout
So, how did I achieve this type of fitness between age 57 and now at age 68. While your diet accounts for 80 percent (80%) of your ability to achieve your health and fitness. Your fitness still plays a significant role in your age-defying lifestyle, as noted above, providing strength, balance, and stamina. It is recommended that people get at least 150 minutes of moderate to intense Exercise each week. In my case, since I model, I put in 270 minutes in a HIT (High Intensity Training) format each week. That is 45 minutes x 6 days per week in my personal gym. The reason I built my own gym is it is medically necessary if I want to walk and have balance.
My Diagnoses of Stage 2 Prostate Cancer
The reason that I follow my HIT workouts 6 days a week in my medical diagnoses in 2023. In December of 2023, I was diagnosed with Stage 2 Prostate Cancer where I underwent a Prostatectomy (removal of the prostate) followed by treatments. One of side effects of Prostatectomy and treatments is nerve damage that causes tight calves and numbness in the feet. The nerve issue was first diagnosed as neuropathy that I was a false positive. The symptoms got so bad that I couldn’t walk or retain by balance for even short period of time. Working in a welding shop, aviation, and working on my farm, it is required for your calves and feet to work. My 12- nerve exercises has been a game changer that I developed.
Guys, PLEASE get your PSA blood test during your annual Physical, IS SAVED MY LIFE!
The Importance of Reaching Your THR
To have an effective workout, you have to raise your Heart Rate to an optimum level to burn those two types of stubborn Fats, subcutaneous (under the skin) and visceral fats (around organs). The level that a person, based on their age burn these two fats, is called Target Heart Rate (THR). You what to sustain your THR for minimum of 15 minutes. You might do yoga and other exercises for a total of 30 minutes, but you want to reach your THR for at least 15 minutes. The simple formula is below:
Your Effective Target Heart Rate
THR = (220 – your age) x 0.80 = heart beats per minute (hbpm)
In my case, since I model I have a higher coefficient for my THR = (220 – 68) x 0.90 = 136 hbpm
My 12- Nerve Regeneration Exercises
Staying active on my farm, welding shop, and in aviation was what I did not want to lose. So, I added 12 simple nerve regeneration exercises through research to my workout program that regenerated my nerves and eliminated my symptoms, but I must continue these type of exercises daily. One of my friends that I work out with occasionally helped me demonstrated these 12 nerve regeneration exercises, below, if you have lower back issues this is YOUR TICKET:
Importance of Maintaining a Healthy Waistline
The medical field is turning to waistline measure to determine one’s health and fitness. A healthy waistline is easy to determine by just taking your height in inches and simply dividing by 2. Because I model, I use the denominator of 2.25. In my case, my healthy waistline is 66 / 2.25 = 29.3 inches waistline, because the camera adds pounds and inches to you, see my waistline chart below. This is why I suggest those that purchase new clothes take photographs instead of using just a mirror to assess their appearance. There is a difference. You will be shock of the difference.
The size of your waistline is a better indicator of your actual health and fitness than your BMI or your weight is. I have been using waist measurements since November of 2014; I have been measuring my waist to gauge the effectiveness of my Catabolic Diet & Fitness Program. This Catabolic Diet Program is SIMPLE based on two factors WHEN I ate (between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.) and WHAT I ate (keeping my MAC Score at of below a factor of 3.25) just by knowing how to read the standard nutrition label using just 9 data points, shown below:
There are two foods that I have at each meal with other items, Pinto Beans and Sweet Potatoes, both are considered the perfect food.
Your Diet will Account for 80 percent of your weight Lost
The WHAT in the Catabolic Diet consists of food high in Protein, Prebiotic Fiber (or health complex carbohydrates), Omega 3 and 9 fats, and Probiotic food. If you keep your meals within 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. period and at or below the MAC 3.25 score, you will drop weight, inches, and years off to turn your body into a turbo-calorie-burning juggernaut. Referring to my waistline chart above, I went from 37.75-inch waistline down to 31.75-inch waistline within a period of just 13- weeks and down to my present waistline of 28.75-inches by August 15th, 2015, I just observed my 10th year anniversary.
To celebrate I had what I call my incentivized food, my favorite treat- (2) York Dark Chocolate Mints:
I exceeded my waistline goal by reaching 28.75-inch where I’m at now 10- years back on August 15th, 2025.
A Justification to my 9-6 Meal Schedule
I always listen to John Tesh radio show, Intelligence for Your Life, where in 2017 he quoted a Cleveland Clinic Research Paper that supported my meal schedule of not eating past 6 p.m. Because nothing Good Ever Happens to you eating past 6 p.m.
I have returned to all my activities since I have been incorporating my 12 nerve exercises in with my work out that I started on August 5th, 2025. I noticed within days these nerve regeneration exercises were working to where I have returned to an active schedule that I had before December 2023.
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These are on KINDLE under my name Charles W. Boatright
