Exercise - A Thorough Examination preview

The Joe Wicks Podcast

BBC

Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Drs Chris and Xand van Tulleken investigate the science of exercise and the dangers of inactivity.

Is modern exercise a wellness cult? Or is it a vital cure for a world that’s struggling with ill health and stuck on the sofa? Most of us might like to get a bit fitter, but how easy is it to actually start exercising and give up sedentary habits?

In this series Drs Chris and Xand van Tulleken examine exercise and how best to do it. How much should we be doing? How does it help our bodies? And how does our surrounding environment stand in the way of us getting fitter? Chris is challenged to examine his scepticism towards exercise. Similarly, Xand is asked to look at his new-found exercise evangelism and see what he is really running from.

Recently Xand has discovered the joys of physical activity. He’s running, cycling, heading to the gym and playing ping pong like never before. It’s been a real transformation and a way to keep on top of things after years of unhealthy living.

His twin brother Chris, on the other hand, is really feeling the aches and pains of middle age. With a busy job and a young family, he has precious little spare time for exercise. After a very active period in his 20s and 30s, Chris is now embracing his ‘Dad bod’ and sliding into a creaky middle age. Xand wants to help him turn things around. Can he do it?

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:05.0	Hello Joe Wicks fans, this is Dr. Chris and Dr Zand here.
0:09.0	Now we're appearing in your Joe Wicks podcast feed because we want to tell you about series three of a thorough examination which is all about exercise
0:18.8	Hello, I'm Zand and I'm Chris Van Tullican in the the third series of our Radio 4 podcast, A Thorough Examination,
0:25.0	we're talking about exercise.
0:27.0	We're arguing about exercise.
0:29.0	We're examining exercise, Chris.
0:31.0	It's not called a thorough argument.
0:32.0	The title of the
0:32.8	podcast is a thorough examination. Time to do some press-ups and then we can go
0:38.8	for a run. Come on, here we go. Why don't you put on your running shoes so we can go for a quick jog?
0:45.8	Oh, there's no point in me going for a run. I don't have time. It's going to injure me and it's going to annoy me.
0:50.8	Come on, it's going to make you feel good. I'll tell you what it's going to make me. Come on, it's going to make me feel tired, regretful, decrep it.
0:56.8	This is what Chris always says and I'm really worried about him.
1:01.3	So for the latest series of a thorough examination, we're
1:04.3	investigating physical fitness and the dangers of a century lifestyle. Now Chris
1:09.4	used to be the fit one in our family and I was very out of shape and pretty unhealthy but
1:14.4	recently I've been working out a lot more and I've been feeling much better for it
1:18.7	our roles have reversed also it's going to make my knee flare up and my feet are going to have.
1:23.3	Chris doesn't think exercise is a miracle cure and he thinks the benefits have been oversold.
1:28.2	Whereas I want to know how we can get off the sofa and why it's so hard for so many of us to be active in the UK today
1:35.2	and what are the risks of that inactivity?
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