From the editors
JOE WICKS IS star-jumping and lunging his way to becoming a national treasure. When he started his PE with Joe on YouTube during the dark days of lockdown to help children (and adults) get much-needed exercise, we took him to our hearts. He was the PE teacher we all wished we’d had at school. In a touching and personal interview he talks about how he realised his daily workouts weren’t just addressing the nation’s physical needs but also its mental health. That is something Wicks can relate to – as a boy he would run to school every morning, the exercise helping to keep him sane in the face of an increasingly difficult home life. In his BBC1 documentary he talks to his parents about a childhood that was coloured by their mental…
