SIMON LEE

Simon Lee is the founder and Director of Arete4Life.

Simon has been passionate about health and fitness from the young age of 14 and has over 25 years experience in an incredible diversity of physical fitness training methods. He matched this with just as an intense a study, towards nutrition and diet for health and performance.

Simon has always created his own unique fitness and nutrition programmes and this led him to winning the Southern England Bodybuilding Championships at the age of 20.

Simon has gained numerous coaching level grades within the martial arts over the past 25 years. The arts studied include; boxing, kung fu, judo, jujitsu, karate, tai chi chuan, bagua, sombo and eskrima. He gained his jujitsu black belt from Olympic medallist and original TV Superstars champion, Brian Jacks.

Simon has also intensively studied the Chinese Self Healing Art of Chi Kung, recognising that physical exercise of any intensity must be balanced with more holistic practices. Through this art Simon met his most important teacher, in nutrition and chi kung, the late Peter Hudson. Peter was one of the countries most highly regarded nutritionists and herbalists. Simon and Peter's relationship and tuition was to last 15 years. Simon continues to develop his methods and his knowledge is now as much sought after by the sporting community as it is by the medical.