4.4 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
0:04.9 | Hello, I'm Lauren LeVern and this is the Desert Island Disks Podcast. |
0:08.8 | Every week I ask my guests to choose the 8 tracks, book and luxury they'd want to take |
0:13.3 | with them if they were cast away to a desert island. |
0:16.4 | For right reasons, the music is shorter than the original broadcast. |
0:20.6 | I hope you enjoy listening. |
0:30.0 | My cast away this week is the fitness trainer and author Joe Wicks. |
0:46.0 | Professionally known as the body coach, he's no stranger to transformations. |
0:50.2 | However, in recent weeks he's undergone one himself. |
0:53.6 | Before coronavirus hit the UK, he was already well known as the face of a hugely successful |
0:59.0 | fitness empire, but in recent weeks he's become the nation's favourite PE teacher after |
1:04.6 | taking a spur of the moment decision to start holding free online workouts for lockdown |
1:09.8 | school kids and their families. |
1:12.2 | His 9AMP sessions have become an online sensation entering the Guinness Book of World Records |
1:18.0 | in the process, but getting Britain's kids eating healthily and being active is a mission |
1:22.8 | he's been on for years. |
1:24.6 | As a contrast to his own childhood, he describes himself as a hyper active kid hooked on sugar |
1:29.7 | saying fruit and vegetables were nonexistent in my house. |
1:33.5 | So how did he grow up to be the Jamie Oliver of fitness, a man on a healthy living mission |
1:38.6 | whose debut cookbook sold 3 million copies and caused a 25% spike in broccoli sales? |
1:45.4 | He says, I'm not motivated to be famous, I'm motivated to be successful. |
1:50.3 | To reach people, I've got to get on TV, I've got to get in with the government, I've |
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