Hello everybody and welcome to Ben Kumba Radio so you're here again with me Tom I am the usual co-host and I'm the manager of the BTN Academy which is our nutrition

education company and this is becoming a bit of a regular thing but Ben has

asked me to do another short Monday show to talk to you about something that we

are messes about quite a lot and we have been this year and that's time off the gym now I don't

know if you've noticed it may have slipped your attention but there is a global pandemic

at the minute and due to this there have been a lot of

gyms closing and because most of the gyms have well because all of the gyms have

closed most people have been unable to do the kind of training that they would usually do

throw quite a lot of this year and the prospect of Jim's closing again is of great

concern to a lot of people now of course this is of great concern to a lot of people. Now of course this is of great concern to the

amazing fitness professionals that work in these facilities that goes without saying

but it's kind of beyond what I'm talking about today. Today I'm just talking about the people

who go and use these facilities for building muscle and getting strong.

Now these individuals are understandably quite nervous about taking breaks from the gym because they're concerned about the loss of the progress that they've made.

These concerns aren't just something that is kept within the year of 2020 though. People get really

nervous about taking time off the gym or like anyway. Whether that is because they're going

to take time off over Christmas or because they're going to go on holiday

and don't have access to gym facilities or perhaps they get ill or they've got busy time at work.

There are all sorts of reasons why people might take a couple weeks off the gym,

and quite often this can create a certain amount of anxiety. And it creates anxiety for two reasons.

One, there is the fear of gaining body fat, and two, there is the fear of gaining body fat and two there is the fear of

losing gym performance now I want to cover the first one first because it's

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