HOW ARE YOUR LIFESTYLE CHOICES AFFECTING YOU

Did you know that your past and present lifestyle has an immediate effect on your future self? What you do today, will have an impact on who you are tomorrow, and that goes for many things whether it be future personal development goals, personal growth, weight loss goals, health goals, wellbeing goals, whatever it might be. The choices that you are making today are affecting your tomorrow.

This is a six part series and today we are going to look at your immediate lifestyle focussing on nutrition choices and how they may be affecting your

-        Weight

-        Health

-        Wellbeing

-        Aging process

-        Mental Clarity

What constitutes a healthy lifestyle, and what can we do to achieve “Optimal Health?” Just recently I started holding weight loss and nutrition seminars as well as creating fitness and lifestyle tours which runs through my system known as “The Six Steps To Optimal Health”

Optimal health isn’t just about eating right and exercising daily. There are many other choices that we make that can affect our immediate self in the future it includes:

-        Breathing

-        Posture

-        Nutrition

-        Water intake

-        Exercise

-        Sleep

Leading a healthy lifestyle to optimal health, not only improves fitness levels, general wellbeing, longevity of life, it also helps massively in the anti-aging process. Someone who leads a healthy lifestyle will have clearer, brighter skin, fewer lines and wrinkles, increase in collagen and elastin production and a glow.

So what constitutes an unhealthy lifestyle:

-        Late nights

-        Poor diet and nutrition

-        Alcohol

-        Narcotics

-        Smoking

-        Not exercising

Nutrition is one of the most important things that you can do for your inner health and wellbeing. I recently worked very closely with a nutritionist to develop my very own nutrition program known as CTS5N you can check it out http://www.weightlossadelaidects5n.com/

-        Eating organic produce

-        Staying away from processed foods

-        Avoiding deep fried and take out produce

-        Limiting red meat intake to once per week

-        Eating plenty of lean meats such as white fish, salmon, chicken and turkey breast

The reason you should choose organic produce over non-organic produce is because non-organic produce contains many pesticides designed to kill insects that may threaten to destroy crops, but what this does, is a) kills the nutrition in the produce itself, but b) pesticides are chemicals that have been proven to have carcinogenic (cancer causing) properties. The liver being the main detox system in the human body is only able to process so many toxins. When the too many toxins are within the body, the liver can no longer rid the body of the excess toxins, taking them into the blood stream causing the body to become acidic.

The ideal body should sit in an alkaline state, however when the body is in an acidic state, this is when things like diseases become present. Cancer can only survive in an acidic environment and science is now able to prove this. So wouldn’t it make sense to keep the body alkaline and in optimal health?

Not only do diseases thrive in an acidic body, this also causes stagnation, the lymphatic system becomes impaired, thus causing weight gain and cellulite.

Red meat should ideally only be consumed once per week because it is harsh on the digestive system. It takes red meat three days to digest properly, meaning that it can clog the intestines also causing stagnation and the digestive system functions to slow down.

In my next blog post I will cover the importance of drinking high quality water and will be focussing on how to alkalize the body and take It from an acidic state to an alkaline state.

Yours in health and wellness

Aaron Buchan

Founder of the CTS brand

CTS FITNESS AND LIFESTYLE TOURS

I will never forget my snowboarding trip away to New Zealand where CTS Fitness and Lifestyle Tours started as a mere thought, and then a goal.

While I was away in New Zealand it became evident to me that the access to a healthy nutritional meal was virtually nil. The food that was on offer was conventional fast food, such as pies, pasties, sausage rolls, pizza, McDonalds, deep fried foods etc.

Being in the health industry for over seven years now and developing the Cross Training System brand from training studios, nutrition programs, trainer mentoring programs and rehabilitation, I am increasingly and consciously aware of what is readily available as a food source in today’s market.

Being away was a real eye opener for me, and I realized that fast food is so readily available, that being able to make a conscious health choice when it isn’t necessarily available is really hard. When we are away on holiday, we want to relax and recuperate, my theory is a holiday is designed to refresh the mind, body and soul, so I don’t necessarily believe that coming back from a holiday means weight gain. I believe a holiday is about refreshing the body, making conscious decisions, and being able to come back fully rejuvenated.

Having fast food so readily available doesn’t allow us as individuals to be able to make that health conscious decision, especially when it is really hard to find good nutrition. The moment I got back from my snowboarding trip in New Zealand, I went straight to the drawing board. I had an idea of fitness and lifestyle tours designed to give individuals the opportunity to take a weekend away, learn the importance of good nutrition, have set exercise and training programs, as well as adventurous sports. A complete rejuvenation for the mind, body and soul, where I could teach people the importance of leading a healthy lifestyle.

Mission accomplished, I planned and structured my first fitness and lifestyle tour in Robe South Australia, and it was an absolute success. It ran from Friday through to Sunday. The schedule looked something like this

-        6:00am wake up and jog along the beach

-        Team strength endurance training throughout the day

-        Hiking

-        Kite Surfing

-        Personal chef cooking my new nutrition system CTS5N

-        Cooking demonstrations

-        6 Steps to optimal health seminar

It was the best weekend I had had in a long time, and the feedback from everyone who took part was amazing. It means so much to me to know that I am changing lives by teaching people the importance of leading a balanced and healthy lifestyle to increase longevity of life.

 

I believe that education is key to helping people achieve their weight loss, health and wellness goals. The fitness and lifestyle tours are designed to do just that, but on a level that is fun, motivating, action packed, nutritional. My aim is to have people not only joining my fitness and lifestyle tours for the education, but to get away for a weekend, unwind de-stress, become more motivated to achieving goals, and best of all going home with a couple kilo’s lost to keep the momentum going of leading a health and active lifestyle.

We are living in a health conscious era, and we are more than ever being influenced to become healthy, and I am glad to be at the forefront teaching this to you, and also to aspiring personal trainers out there, that share the exact same vision.

If you would like more information on my fitness and lifestyle tours please contact us by visiting www.crosstrainingsystems.com.au/contact-us/ and send an enquiry over. One of our professional trainers will get back to you as soon as possible, and let you know of upcoming dates of these exciting and new fitness and lifestyle tours to hit South Australia.

Until then, keep reading, become educated and stay healthy 

Yours in health and fitness

Aaron Buchan