Hey everyone, Bank of a Radio, how are you doing? You're incredible. You're awesome human

being you. The UK gyms are about to reopen and me and Tom were trying to think of a good

podcast topic to riff on and we were like, oh, let's talk about kind of getting back

into the gym and we were like, that's not really got enough meat or action on the bones.

So we had a little chat and we thought, why don't we talk about all the things we wish

we knew now about training in the gym because I personally have been in the gym sort of

about 15 years now and you've learned you learn a lot over a course of 15 years and Tom

has been in the gym a long time too. Anyway, hello Tom. Hey, Ben. Yeah, I think I've been

in the gyms. I think I first started training as a New Year's resolution when I was like

17. I'm pretty sure that was the day. So if you look at like the first of January was

that 2008, that's the first time I've ever ended a gym and then I've been going pretty

damn consistently since then, which I always use around New Year when people are shitting

on New Year's resolutions like I was I'm going to join the gym as a New Year's resolution

person. I'm still there. So I also think you've probably been in the gym longer than 15

years. You're older than you think you are. Well, dude, I'm 34. That's well old. Back off,

man. So what I'm interested, what was the New Year's resolution at 17? So I can imagine

what what is a 17 year old trying to achieve then? I mean mine wasn't a New Year's resolution

of what he'd lose weight. So that was my reason for going to the gym. Oh God, I don't even

really remember. It was, no, I will have been in it. I've been to improve my rugby. I'll

still play rugby then. You said they carried on, man. No, right. I remember the minute that

I stopped playing rugby, right? I was, so I live in the Northeast for people that don't

know it's cold up here. And I used to play, I was a flanger to like towards the end. I'm

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