5. Robin Arzón: Sweating with swagger

The Joe Wicks Podcast

BBC

Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Joe Wicks wants to know: What’s the one thing that makes life better? Joe loves finding ways to boost his mental and physical health, so he’s asking some of his inspiring mates about their secret to physical and mental happiness. Whether it’s a high-intensity cycle, a freezing cold shower or a good long dog-walk, every guest will share the one thing that works for them. Runner, super-athlete and author Robin Arzón is perhaps best known as the head trainer at Peloton, the home-exercise-bike company. You might not know that she's run marathons, ultra-marathons, 100 mile races... she's even run through the night in the middle of the desert at Burning Man festival. And you almost certainly won't know how she got into running in the first place. It's a story of strength, grit and amazing triumph over adversity. No wonder she's Joe's 'go-to-girl' when he needs a bit of motivation for his own work-outs! Joe and Robin chat about everything from physical strength to mental resilience, what it takes to run for 29 hours straight, and Robin's most important self-care routine... not a work-out, but getting a full, nine hours of sleep, every night. Summer holiday’s been postponed and you’re feeling down? Forget about it. This is sunshine in a podcast. Joe Wicks is here for you, and he won’t stop until you’re fit and happy. Producer: Emily Knight Editor: Dimitri Houtart A BBC Audio Bristol production for Radio 4

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. Hi everyone, Joe Wicks here and welcome to another episode of the Joe Wicks
0:13.8	podcast. This is the podcast where I get to meet people that inspire me my
0:17.6	favorite people to find out what they do, their little tips and tricks for keeping
0:21.8	on top of their physical and mental health.
0:23.4	And it's different for everyone. For some people that sleep, for somebody who is exercise,
0:27.6	art, meditation, yoga, and every guest has got their own story which I cannot wait to share
0:31.8	with you.
0:33.0	Now I love a workout and as the body coach it's my job to inspire people to get active and move and push themselves for each session.
0:40.0	But staying for it isn't easy even for me I sometimes sometimes need a little kick, little bit of extra motivation.
0:45.0	Well this week I managed to catch up with someone who inspires me to do just that.
0:49.0	She's a huge hero of mine and she's someone who motivates me to push harder even when I'm really knackered.
0:54.0	She's Robin Arzon, she's an athlete, an ultra-marathan runner, but she's also an author and the head
0:58.6	instructor for Peloton, which is the home exercise bike, the online community with live workouts and it's a community
1:04.4	that I've been apart about a year now and Robin is my girl she's my go-to she's the one I
1:08.1	always choose she brings out the best in me and even if I've had a really like long tire and stressful day I jump
1:15.0	on that bike I go bang 30 minutes of Robin and I always walk off the bike feeling
1:19.6	amazing and that's the power of a great trainer and she is someone I've been waiting to speak to for a long time.
1:26.0	And she's done endurance events, she's done a hundred mile races and check this out.
1:30.0	She went to Burning Man and she ran a marathon in the middle of a desert.
1:33.4	So this girl, if you need motivation, this is your girl.
1:37.9	She really is an inspiring woman and I think you're going much for giving me some of your time. I've been
1:45.0	listen I want to start off by saying thank you so much for giving me some of your time. I know you're busy and you've been such an inspiration to me
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