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The study was conducted to assess the Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of gym members of Guwahati. The study area was selected at Guwahati, Assam. The main objective of the study was to collect the demographic profile, second to assess the nutritional status and lastly to assess KAP (knowledge, attitude and practice) of the respondent. The sample was selected purposively. From the present study it was evident that the age group of 17-25 male and female respondents has the highest number of respondent followed by 26-35 age group of both male and female, next 36-49 age group and the last were 2 percent belong to age group below 16. For education qualification it show that 80 percent of both male and female were graduate, 16 percent female and 14 percent male were HSLC and the rest 4 percent female and 6 percent male belong to H.S. for anthropometric measurement it was found that 70 percent female and 50 percent male were under normal category, where 18 percent female and 34 percent male were under pre-obese, 16 percent female and 12 percent male were under overweight, however 6 percent female and 4 percent male were underweight according to the classification done by WHO. Nutritional knowledge of male members were 84, 8, 8 percent, for attitude 30, 54, 16 percent and for practice 34, 26, 40 percent for good, poor, average whereas knowledge of female members were 48, 36, 16 percent for attitude 28, 38, 34 percent and 30, 34, 36 percent for poor, average and good score. From the result it is evident that the gym members has good knowledge but still they need to improve their attitude and practice in order to achieve better result.