Joe Wicks

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Brandreth / Plain Jaine Media

Society & Culture, Unknown

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Joe Wicks, the man who inspired the UK to leap off their sofas and start exercising and eating healthily, joins Gyles for this episode. Joe talks about his childhood growing up with a father who was struggling with addiction, and a mum with OCD. He talks about his early love for PE and how that developed into a career. Joe is so impressive that Gyles even asks him for advice about his own wellness regime! Joe's book, Feel Good in 15 is out now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.
0:04.0	Down time can be just fine playing bangers from the 90s.
0:08.0	Tea break.
0:09.0	Lunt break.
0:10.0	Maybe listen to the outbreak.
0:12.0	Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right?
0:15.0	It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time. Go play some other time put your phone down tombollah open for fun
0:26.5	terms apply 18 plus gamble aware.org hello it's giles here what's your very first memory we hope these conversations
0:37.4	make you think back to your early days.
0:39.8	Yeah, that's what it's all about.
0:41.2	Welcome to another episode of Rosebud.
1:12.8	Welcome to another episode of Rosebud. My guest today is fitness and lifestyle guru and social media sensation Joe Wicksicks. From humble beginnings, running boot camps in Richmond Park from the back of his bicycle, Joe Wicks has had a meteoric rise
1:19.5	to success. He now has 10 Sunday Times best-selling books. Did you hear that? 10 Sunday
1:26.0	Times best-selling books. 350 million YouTube viewers
1:30.3	and is on a mission to get Britain fitter and healthier. I don't know why I asked him, actually.
1:36.1	I'm envious of all this success. Anyway, during lockdown, his BE with Joe sessions were a vital
1:41.4	sensation, and Joe broke the Guinness World Records for the largest
1:45.7	YouTube live stream audience ever. I wasn't quite sure what to make of Joe, because I'm not really
1:52.2	into PE, and I've had a few Sunday times best-selling books myself, maybe half a dozen, but he's had
1:58.4	ten, and he's half my age or less.
2:01.6	He's on this mission to get Britain fitter, and I thought, is he going to be a bit of a holy Joe?
2:06.2	He is a bit of a saint, but he's not a Holy Joe.
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