Hey everyone, Baycuma Radio, how and earth are you doing?

Now today, we're going to kind of wind back in a way to some of the things that we talked

about a lot in the early years of this podcast, it's nearly nine years old this podcast.

So if you're here still from the beginning, probably not because that's a very long time,

that's a lot of Baycuma to listen to, I'd be amazed if you are, but we talked a lot

more about bodybuilding back in the early days of this podcast, and I suppose that was because

I was young, it was a big influence on me in the early days, and I think it's a big influence

on a lot of people when they get into fitness, especially if one of your goals is to build muscle.

So we're going to take a little bit of rewind today and kind of feel like the old days a little bit,

but re-approach bodybuilding, but also to look at bodybuilding in a modern sense.

What is modern day bodybuilding? How has it evolved? What do we know now that we didn't?

Let's say eight, nine, ten years ago, and I also want to raise the question, is it healthy?

There is a lot of body dysmorphia in bodybuilding. I know it because I've suffered from it.

Not on a severe way, but in some form, and I think that brings a lot of anxiety for people

around habits and behaviors within bodybuilding, and I happen to get the chance to speak to someone

on this topic at Fit Expo, which some of you might have come to, and it was a chance to really get

under the skin of this conversation. I thought, do you know what? This conversation has to get on the podcast.

So I've invited a amazing guest, Ben Halden. Hello. Thank you very much. Have him, is there?

Thank you. Ben, you are prolific on the gram. You are prolific with your own podcast.

If I were to follow you on Instagram, I'd be like, this guy is into bodybuilding. He knows what's

going on. Do you want to give the 30-second elevator pitch, and then we'll start to really get

under the skin of this topic? Yes, we'll do, so firstly, thanks for having me on Ben anyway,

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