Hey everyone, Benkuma Radio, good morning. I think I'm recording this at about 4 a.m. in the morning,

that was the sound of my dog yawning in the background. Ah, today is a good day. I hope you have a good one lined up. So today is a short Monday show and I want to talk about getting injured. So getting injured is obviously not a great thing and it's not a great thing for people that

sort of have a fitness routine, they go to the gym a couple of times a week, they play sport and it becomes a big part of their off time.

So you finish work and you go for a gym session, you go to a group class, you go play sport,

whatever you do and when you remove that time when you're injured

there the kind of release goes you know that that period of time where you get to do some exercise release

some endorphins you know obviously help maintain your weight obviously help try

build muscle or maintain muscle if you go to the gym so So a lot of people can have a

bit of a wobble when you become injured because you both sort of panic

about not being able to maintain your body and help maintain your weight and not put on body fat and also you don't kind of get that release.

Now obviously injury is unfortunate and straight off the bat we've just got a roll with the punches

so people always ask me what you would do in the period of injury to just stay

fit and healthy and the best advice is do what you can. So if you injured a knee

what could you do with... Sorry that's my dog in the background itching her neck

and tingling her rivi.

Bloody dog, eh?

So it's a case of doing what you can.

So if you blew a knee, you injured a knee, you know, could you get a rubber band and do some upper body exercises even if it's sort of really basic stuff like doing movements, you're at least resisting your muscles you're not

losing any body fat could you go to the gym and sit on one of those like upper body

recumbent bikes could you do some light upper body weights if you injure the shoulder could you get onto the

leg press and do some single leg pressing could you go out for a walk it's literally

a case of doing what you can now the second part of that doing what you can to maintain your

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