Quotes from Joe Wicks

I won't do ready meals because I'm teaching people how to cook. I won't do it no matter how much you pay me, you can say you'll give me £100,000 to do it, but my brand is more important than that.

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

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.

I do need to exercise. I feel I'm a much better person for it.

I do want a big family.

You can have an awesome physique by doing just 25 minutes exercise a day. That's all I do.

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.

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.

The antidote to addiction is connection and love.

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

I just have the ability to make a four-year-old kid and a 50-year-old man feel good at the same time. I don't talk down or up. I'm just myself.

I like getting fresh air.

I love my mum for raising us, and I love my dad for teaching me what to avoid.

I try to be as genuine and authentic as possible.

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

You can be fit and healthy and still have fun.

I've never thought much about energy, or a higher power, or the driving force behind someone's purpose.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

People underestimate the impact of lack of sleep; not only will the intensity of your workouts suffer, but you are likely to crave sugary foods the next day.

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