Featured Interview With Marc McLean
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I’m Marc McLean, a 35-year-old online personal training and nutrition coach and health and fitness author. I’m a former newspaper editor who switched to the health and fitness industry a few years ago to combine my writing and my long love affair with weight training.
I live in the Loch Lomond area in Scotland (amazing scenery – you gotta visit). I don’t have a partner or pet but my mum has a wee border collie called ‘Summer’ who has got more brains than me.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I was not a big book lover during school. In fact, I didn’t properly get into reading books until I was 18 or 19 and then became hooked; reading 1 or 2 per week. These were mainly true crime and history books at first, but then I started reading lots of health and fitness books and titles from the personal development genre.
I basically started writing when I got my first job in the media industry as a junior newspaper reporter in 2000. It was at my local newspaper and didn’t pay very well…but I was just happy to get my byline in the local paper every week and to be able to scrape enough together to get a mortgage for my first flat.
I ended up spending 12 years in the media industry, editing two weekly newspapers, working as a news reporter at a top tabloid in Scotland, and also a spell in PR.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I’m really into the personal development/improvement genre, and learning about how the minds of the most accomplished people past and present really worked. How they operate every day, what habits they have, what makes them really tick….I find all of that fascinating. There are countless amazing people out there doing incredible things worth reading about.
I’m talking about people like Tony Robbins, Tim Ferriss, Jim Rohn, Gary Vaynerchuk etc. These are the types of people who inspire me to share my own personal experiences and knowledge with the world.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
I’m author of the Strength Training 101 book series on Amazon, which basically shouts about the many benefits of weight training for men and women.
My latest book ‘Strength Training For Women: Burn Fat Effectively…And Sculpt The Body You’ve Always Dreamed Of’ is the fourth title in the series and is already proving to be popular.
It was inspired by me seeing female friends, relatives, ex-colleagues etc doing standard cardio exercise like jogging and aerobics classes 4,5,6 days per week and getting nowhere. Seeing them being miserable eating boring, bland diets for weeks…seeing no difference…going on a junk food bender in frustration…and then repeating the cycle.
It was also written to encourage many women who have fears/insecurities that hold them back from taking that first important step into the gym. The book underlines that we all have to start somewhere, that other gym-goers are not judging you, and that you are a MUCH stronger person than you actually know.
This is also backed up with real life case studies of women who admit they were clueless about strength training and were worried they would look stupid in the gym. They share how they overcame their fears and have become hooked on lifting weights after experiencing amazing results.
Weight training not only raises your metabolism levels, but it can create an after-burn effect for the next 24 hours. This means that your body is continuing to strip excess bodyfat, while developing toned muscles, even while you sleep. When you train like this consistently you don’t need any fad diet to lose weight and you’ll see clear, physical changes in your body.
I also wrote this book to:
* Clear up lingering myths that weight training makes women ‘bulky’ or ‘too masculine’;
* Educate women on why this form of exercise is ultra effective for burning fat and developing a lean, toned body with curves in all the right places;
* Convince women that they are much stronger than they think;
* Prove that the weights section in the gym is no longer male dominated – and explain why women should be training just like men do;
* Help women build up their confidence in a gym environment and take steps towards becoming stronger inside and out.
The book also features two chapters with women’s strength/wellness coach Marianne Kane, co-founder of Girls Gone Strong and the renowned Get Glutes training program. She shares her expert advice on how women can develop a toned butt and transform their bodies overall.
I really enjoyed writing this book and I’m sure it’ll help a few more people join the ever-growing army of women who are becoming stronger, leaner and healthier every day.
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