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I don't come from a very ambitious family. We weren't entrepreneurial. We weren't hard-working academics, or setting up businesses. But for some reason, when I started doing fitness, I always had this voice in my head telling me to keep going - keep going, and people will eventually follow.

Joe Wicks

Work Fitness Family

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Don't look too far into the future, just look at tomorrow. One day at a time. Can you win tomorrow? Can you make progress? The answer is yes, you have a choice and tomorrow you're going to win.

Time Future You

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It's never too late to get fit; it's never too late to feel good and confident and change the way you eat and train. Just give it a go and momentum will take you the rest of the way.

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There's no wrong or right with fitness. It's whatever you enjoy and whatever you can keep up and keep doing.

Fitness You Wrong

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The antidote to addiction is connection and love.

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It's all about nutrition. You can train, train, train all you want but I always say you can't outtrain a bad diet.

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I eat three home-cooked meals a day, all prepared in advance. My ethos is to stay away from unsustainable low-calorie diets and aim for something balanced: loads of veg, protein and enjoy the carbs you love. Be realistic. I don't count sugar or salt or grams of fat: it's very restrictive and unenjoyable.

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Exercise is an amazing tool to help us feel happier, more energised, and more optimistic.

Amazing Us Tool

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Never eat food that drains you of energy; eat food that makes you feel awesome.

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If I have a fizzy drink and an ice cream, I get a sore tummy and a headache.

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I slag off people I see coming out of the gym with a can of Red Bull or a Lucozade!

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Fasting is not sustainable or enjoyable, yet we've been conditioned to think the only way to burn fat is to cut out all the things we love and spend hours in the gym. How can anyone live like that? Don't starve yourself; train, then refuel your body.

Love Yourself Yours

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A lot of people would question, 'is twenty-five minutes or thirty minutes a day really enough to have a good physique?' But that's how I live my life: I do short and intense workouts so that I can enjoy my day and be with my family and not be in the gym for hours.

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People say I'm like a cross between Jamie Oliver, Russell Brand and Mr Motivator.

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I don't come from a very ambitious family. We weren't entrepreneurial. We weren't hard-working academics, or setting up businesses. But for some reason, when I started doing fitness, I always had this voice in my head telling me to keep going - keep going, and people will eventually follow.

Work Fitness Family

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Exercise always makes you feel happy, it lifts your mood and gives you energy.

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You can't smash your business and be a mum or a dad on 1,000 calories a day.

Business Your You

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My mum loved housework, she basically had OCD.

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I Snapchat in the bath. I Snapchat when I wake up. I'm giving people inspiration. It's like a TV show.

Wake Up Wake Up

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Cooking at home with fresh ingredients means you know what's going into your food.

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I've always been a fan of the home workout. I know a lot of people think that jumping around in your living room is never going to be as effective. But you can get an amazing workout using your bodyweight alone.

Work Home Amazing

Start early and hydrate as soon as you wake up.

I don't know Russell Brand but I like him a lot. I think he's a good guy.

I love a feelgood Taylor Swift or Katy Perry pop tune.

The diet industry pushes these low calorie, calorie-counting diets, and that's what I want to release people from.

I don't do politics.

I do love my dad, we have a great relationship now but there were years when he was absent and it was my mum that raised me.

As a kid I had a very unhealthy diet. I try not to place any blame. Mum was uneducated in cooking. She left school and home at 15, had my older brother when she was 17 and me at 19. It was usually frozen meals and lots of cola, peanut butter, jam sandwiches, sweets and loads of chocolates.

Oh, I love a good burger, I really do. With chips and a beer and ice cream afterwards.

I'm just trying to use my happiness and motivation to rub off on other people around me.

My top tips for deep sleep are to switch off your laptop and mobile at least 30 minutes before bed and leave them in another room. Ditch the bedroom TV; listen to music instead. Get a comfortable eye mask. It takes getting used to, but trust me, it will allow you to sleep deeper and longer.

I grew up on a council estate, but I still had a roof over my head, we still had food, I went on school trips. I wasn't completely deprived.

My goal is to take the nutrition world globally. You've got chefs who do their chef thing, you've got fitness trainers who do the fitness stuff but I'm the only one who does both.

I live my life online: I don't have many secrets.

Plan your workouts in advance and try and stick to them like appointments you can't miss.

I applied the same mentality to my social media as I did when I was doing my boot camps. I thought, well, no one's watching, but I'll keep adding value, putting out good recipes, funny workouts and good videos. And it grew and grew.

Your baby is your baby and you are free to feed them however you like. Try not to compare your child to others. This is your journey and you can take it at your own pace. Whichever style of weaning you decide to go for is your choice, and remember: all children eventually do learn to eat with a knife and fork.

My aim is always just to get one person a day to exercise and cook healthy food.

If I was going to get stuck living, exercising and eating anywhere, it would have to be Italy. I've been to Sardinia and Tuscany and the food was unreal.

If you're really unfit and you want to get into fitness, just starting at home with some really basic, gentle stuff is going to build up your confidence and your fitness. This way, if you do decide to join a gym, you're not going to be really intimidated and just run out the door.

You don't need a gym or lots of equipment to get fit and healthy.

If you're a likable person and you're passionate, then people are drawn to that wherever you are in the world.

I wasn't born ambitious, but I am ambitious now.

My mum is a social worker and my dad's a roofer. My brother Nicky and I were the first two in my family to go to university.

Eat carbs such as sweet potato or jasmine rice within one hour of your workout. Cut down on them on rest days when you don't need the extra fuel.

I like going to the cinema or theatre, followed by a meal and cocktails. I'm typically home by midnight; I used to be a raver but not now, unless I'm on the boys' trips to Vegas, Dubai or Miami.

I think I've opened up my mind to all foods, except tinned tuna. I can't stand that. I will not go near it; the smell is unbearable.

I like getting fresh air.

I work with my brother and best mates, but I wouldn't give any old plonker a job. With success, I've been able to spend more time with family and be financially supportive in a way I never thought I could.

Well, I started my career as a personal trainer. So I did one-to-one, you know, outdoors, at people's houses and then obviously boot camps and stuff, which I love.

Lots of kids don't have active lives and good diets.