Hey everyone, Ben Kumu Radio, how and earth are you doing? Big Tom is with me today.

How you doing, Ben? How you doing?

Mee, I'm sweet. The world's spiraling into lockdown, but we've done it before.

It will all be absolutely fine.

We've had a big question sent into today's show.

So we're going to go down the rabbit hole of a big topic.

We're probably going to go off in lots of different tangents.

I'm not gonna apologize, but I think this question is superb

when it comes to health, social media,

the influence of people on us, our overall health, our performance, how we manage performance, how we manage expectation of others, perception of self, like this is going to be a good show.

Yeah, it's a big one. So we'll just read this out. The questionnaire asked to remain anonymous,

I'm not mention name.

Dear Ben, first of all I wanted to say a massive thank you for all the advice and

information you give out to help others like myself to improve as athletes

or just to be healthier and be more awesome.

I've been listening to your podcasts and reading your blogs for a while now and I just love learning new information regarding the

science behind nutrition and exercise in trying to produce optimal performance.

I thought I should start by giving a bit of background information about myself before I dive in with a question.

I'm an 18 year old female athlete with a particular passion for cricket. My goal in life is to become a professional cricketer. I also admire a long distance running and hope to complete marathons, ultra marathons and Iron Man when I get a bit older.

Two very different sports I know.

Hockey is also something I'm very interested in,

as well as skiing, cycling, swimming, walking or hiking, and rugby.

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