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Joe Wicks

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Global

Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

You'll know Joe Wicks as the man who saw thousands through Lockdown with his daily workouts, or as the Body Coach, sharing his workouts and recipes online helping the masses tone up and shed a few pounds. This week, he's joining Jenni for a proper catch up to chat all things running. Jenni and Joe chat that fast 5k time that Mo Farah helped him achieve, his new love of strength training, his swap to early morning workouts and how it helps not only the rest of his daily routine but his mental health, the importance of nutrition to achieve your goals whilst being realistic, the joy of ice baths, sprints on the treadmill and the community that running provides. To join the RunPod Run Club Facebook group, please visit this link: Facebook.com/groups/runpodrunclub

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0:00.0

This episode of Run Pod is sponsored by M&S, where you can shop all your favourite sportswear brands.

0:09.3

Hello there, welcome to another gathering of the RunPod Run Club, where we chat about the

0:14.1

feel good of running, whilst also sharing tips and secrets to stay motivated to run faster and

0:19.8

further and possibly even how to fuel correctly whilst running.

0:24.1

Every guest has their own story to tell and their own running journey to share it.

0:27.6

This week, well, I'm delighted to welcome back to RunPod,

0:30.7

a man who is super fit, super lean.

0:33.4

And after talking to him about running, he is also super fast.

0:37.2

It is Joe Wicks. Hello, welcome

0:39.2

back. Hi, Jenny. Thanks for my lovely intro and thanks for having me back on the podcast for a full chat this time.

0:44.7

We get a whole discussion, don't we? Exactly. Because last time it was just like a mini chat. So it's so good that

0:49.4

you're here. So glad to have you back on Run Pod. I mean, I said there that you were super fast. The last time you came on, we talked about how you'd be now running with Mo Fara. And he got you to smash

0:58.9

out a super fast 5K, didn't he? Yeah, that was the last kind of time I really went hard. I did

1:04.7

I just set myself a challenge of running a sub like 20 minute 5K, which is obviously quite an uncomfortable pace anyway. And I met him at

1:10.8

Bushy Park in, well, near Bush, near Richmond. And we did a 5K. I did in 18 minutes 45. And I was

1:17.3

literally, I was on my ass. I was exhausted at the end of it. But he was literally not even out

1:21.5

of breath. He's like, well done, Joe. And he just went off and did loads of sprints but yeah it was tough i haven't done a proper i haven't nudged it since then but i was

1:28.3

happy with that that for me is the fastest i think i'll run it that time how's your running coming

1:33.6

along otherwise well i go in and out of it really i kind of i dip in and actually had a run this morning on

1:37.7

my treadmill i did a little interval session so i just do like a 20 second sprint and a 40 second rest and I do that for sort of 15 minutes. That's more of a

1:44.5

high intensity workout. But when I, I recently went on a, um, a book tour around the UK. And I, every

1:50.8

time I got to a new city, I basically was telling people like the night before, I'm going to be here at

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