Self Awareness For The New Year
A new year has started and it’s always exciting for a fresh start. The thought of setting a goal (New Year resolution) and creating something new in your life! The general rule of thumb is most people start their resolutions highly motivated and ready to achieve their goal. They start off working hard and then after a few weeks start coming up with excuses, give up, and go back to their old habits. Why do you think this happens?
It’s important to have self awareness when you make your resolution. When you set this goal, you’re hoping to create something you don’t currently have in your life. This means you have to make changes to the way your use to living. This is being outside your comfort zone!
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32 Day Health Challenge
I created a 32 day health challenge to help people lay the foundation to create a healthy lifestyle. It’s run through Facebook so you must have an account. It’s open to everyone!
Sign up here…https://www.facebook.com/groups/298544333528808/
Chris Chouteau
Personal Trainer in Schertz/Cibolo
www.custombodyfitness.com
Dam Holiday Weekends
I just weighed myself and found I’m up 7 ½ pounds from the 4th of July week. The reason is because I made poor eating and drinking choices. I must now correct those choices; I will be eating extra healthy and cutting back on calories till I get back to where I like to be.
In my lifestyle I usually eat healthy and exercise so I feel good and my brain optimally functions. This past week I decided to make poor choices and today my energy is low, so I’m feeling tired and sluggish and struggling to write this blog entry.
For example: This weekend I ate chicken wings with beer and a late night pastrami sandwich. To undo these negative effects: Today I’ve had a few healthy meals and drank lots of water… I’m already starting to feel better!
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I Found The Fountain of Youth
One of the things I’ve seen as a personal trainer is how exercise and eating healthy changes people. I’ve seen the change when people consistently start to exercise and eat healthy. It’s a positive change and is the reason why I feel exercise is so important to incorporate into people’s lives.
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4 Tips for a Healthy Life
What choices can you make that will help you get more value out of your life? This is something I often think about when I’m working with my clients. My personal goal when I train my clients is to help them add value to their lives by living healthy! It will also add value to yours.
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Enrich Your Life… 3 Steps to Creating
There is always a process to create anything in your life. Whether you want to lose weight, start your own business, buy a new car… there is always a process! Here’s how it goes…
Idea
You first have an idea. The idea is a thought that comes to your mind of something you want in your life. The idea is a thought in the future. You can’t touch and it’s not real. YET! This is also a visualization, or as our teachers would call it a “day dream”. They are thoughts in the future of something you would like to create in your life!
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Thoughts About Happiness
Do you want to be happy? Do you ever have that feeling that you should be doing something different with your life?
I’m going to get deep here…
I think most people are unhappy because they watch to much TV! ( I know you might not agree but bear with me…. I have some great thoughts here)
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You Have The Choice To Change Your Life
What if I told you that the reason you are not achieving the things you want in life is because you don’t really want to achieve them? As a personal trainer my goal is to help my clients improve their lives by making choices to create a healthy lifestyle. I learned in my own life as well as training hundreds of clients that the only thing that prevents people from achieving results is our OWN SELF-LIMITING BELIEFS and LACK OF ACTION!
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Improve your childs odds!!! You can make the difference!
Here’s something to think about… If you are feeding your kids fast food you may be setting the stage for them to be obese and overweight!… This is something that needs to be considered by all Americans! The percentage of Americans that are overweight is around 60 percent… Think about that… 60%… This percentage means your kid has more than a 50/50 chance of being overweight… But you… have the power to put the odds in their favor and teach them to make healthier eating choices… FAST FOOD IS NOT HEALTHY!
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Can You Handle Life’s Challenges?
In life, things rarely go as planned and I feel there’s value in that! I think there a couple things happening here. One is that life is making sure your plan is something you really want, and second, it’s helping you learn lessons that will be valuable in the future!
Last week I had my own life challenge happen to me. I started this year out with some business and financial goals and everything was going great. I’ve worked hard and put much time and effort into what I was trying to accomplish. Last week I had something inexpertly happen that completely knocked me off course form my goal. It sucks and definitely knocked the wind out of me, but I’ve been challenged many times in life and I know this is part of PROCESS to reaching my goal. I’m not going to hit my financial goal in the time frame I hoped, but I’m not going to stop till I do. When I get knocked down, in my mind I have not choice but to get back up and keep working. If not it’s not something I really want.
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Thinking Long Term is the First Step to Reaching Your Goal
My personal goal is to help clients create long-term results! One of the biggest challenges I face as a personal trainer is teaching my clients to think long term and not expect immediate results. This doesn’t mean that they won’t see result in the short term, but helps them to create the mindset for their long-term success.
In our society we are bombarded with marketing and advertising about getting results quickly and with little work. Think about all the advertising you see on TV or hear on the radio about losing weight, getting in shape, or making lots of money. What are they selling? “Quick Results”. I personally think these are unethical practices and misleading the public to think that results come easy and with little work and have influenced society as a whole to focus on immediate gratification. I have trained 100’s of multimillionaire entrepreneurs and I am yet to meet one who got rich quickly. They have all worked extremely hard over long periods of time to achieve their success. This applies to losing weight and getting in shape as well!
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Let’s Get The Ball Rolling!
I was just talking to a friend yesterday and he told me he’s at his heaviest weight in his life. He went on to tell me what that he wanted to lose weight and get back in shape (which I heard a couple times in the last year) and then told me the things he needs to do to accomplish this. The problem is that he is not doing the things he told me he needed to do. This is a very common story I hear when I talk with people about creating a healthy lifestyle. Why is this?
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Do You Have The Courage To Step Outside Your Box?
I want to help you create some awareness about human nature and yourself, so you have an understanding of what it takes to create change and be successful reaching your goals!
Whenever you decide you want to create a change in your life there will be challenges, because you’re stepping out of your comfort zone. Let me give you an idea of what I mean:
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Are You Accepting Where You Are At?
Here’s my second Video. I talk here about accepting where you are at and it’s importance to creating changes in your life. Many times in my career I’ve seen people who want to make changes in their lives, but are not honest with themselves with their current situation.
Accepting where you are at gives you a starting point. For example: If you have 50 pounds to lose, are out of shape and your health is not good… this is your reality. It can’t be denied… it is truth! I’m not trying to be insensitive here. I know how challenging it is of accepting this reality, and the courage it takes to do so, but it’s very important because it gives you the starting point of where your at, and allows you to set a goal to where you want to be.
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Simple Explaination of Diabetes
Here a great video that explains type 1 and type 2 diabetes in basic and easy to understand way. Obesity and Diabetes has become an epidemic and knowledge is power. Please send forward this to anyone who is prediabetic or diabetic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rPLjSY00JlE
You can also visit their YouTube page where they have other informative videos on diabetes.
Chris
Give your body the opportunity!
Your body is amazing! What it is capable of and what it can do is absolutely incredible! When you are exercising… slow down and allow your body to figure out how to effectively do the exercise.
When you do an exercise for the first time, start slow and allow your body to feel the muscle (s) being worked through the entire movement. Focus your mind on nothing but feeling the muscle. When you do this, you are giving the body the opportunity to contract the muscle(s) being worked and figure out how to correctly do the exercise. This is also how you start to connect the mind and body and how you target the muscles that are suppose to be worked.
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Do You Want Your Kids To Be Obese?
I know this is an extreme title, but what I’m going to talk about here is important. In the United States obesity has become an epidemic. Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index study in 2009 found 63.1% of adults are obese or over weight. This means that at least 6 out of 10 adults are overweight! There are about 32% of children who are overweight in our country, that’s 3 out of 10 kids! If things continue the way they are, this means that 3 more out of these 10 kids will become over weight or obese at some point in their life, and these numbers are on the rise. These numbers are scary and can be changed if we start to teach and educate our kids on eating healthy and being active at an early age.
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Life’s Free Pleasures “Success”
Here is a 10-minute video about being successful and the evolving process to do so! The hardest part about being successful is starting out. I am using this video as an example. This is my first video. It wasn’t planned… I jumped in and got it done! I could have done it a few times and done a better job, but I posted this one because I want to show everyone how to start something new and how it evolves and improve. I will be doing these videos through the year and they will improve!
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A Great Alternative If You Have No Time To Cook!
Zone Health is a gourmet food delivery service that provides healthy alternatives for the residents of the Los Angeles Area. If you have no time to cook and looking to lose weight or eat healthy, Zone healthy can provide you the solution your looking for.
I refer my Santa Monica Personal Training clients who are to busy to prepare their own food or just need a kick start for a few weeks to help them create a healthy lifestyle! It’s a great service!!!
Zone Healthy delivers daily to your doorstep. For more information check out their website at
www.zonehealthy.com or call 888-522-ZONE (888-522-9663). Let them know I referred you and you will be well taken care of!
Chris