About Ed Clements
Nutritional philosophy: I’ve been interested in the question of what exactly good nutrition is for most of my life, but over the last seven or so years I have devoted a lot of my time to research into this area. There is a clear cut relationship between our level of health and the nutrition we receive each day. However, the conclusions I’ve drawn as to what good nutrition is generally clash with the typical advise that we hear. With the correct nutritional knowledge it is easy to become and to remain extremely lean, muscular and to enjoy very high mental and physical energy levels each day. I built this site so that I can share all that I have learned about good nutrition and training and thereby help people to improve their physiques and to become healthier.
Weights training is great fun and is an easy way to improve your body composition and health. Regular weights training improves your appearance by both building muscle and burning fat, strengthens your bones, improves your confidence and helps your sporting performance. If I could only give one piece of weights training advice, it would be to get good at doing compound exercises such as the squat, the deadlift, the bench press, the chin-up and the pull-up. Regularly doing these exercises will greatly help with whole body muscle gain and will rapidly accelerate fat loss. Different people do well on different training frequencies but I'm currently a big fan of H.I.T. training, made popular by Ken Leistner. I'm doing a hard full body session twice a week at the moment and this frequency is allowing me to recover well and to improve my gym performance whilst keeping me lean and muscular. I'm sure that I will be back on higher frequency/ workload programs in the future though... I feel that the majority of people are wasting their time at the gym by performing exercises with the wrong technique and by overdoing ineffective isolation exercises. On the other hand, bodyweight exercises like pressups, pistols and chinups are massively underrated nowadays. I would recommend these for all athletes as they directly translate to improved sporting performance and also help to keep bodyweight at the ideal level. My other main piece of fitness training advise would be to avoid overdoing aerobic exercise. Obsessive joggers never have muscular physiques and over practising activities like jogging can hurt your health through a number of mechanisms. Fat loss can be easily achieved through proper weights training and through diet alteration. Return from About-Ed-Clements to muscle-health-fitness homepage
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