Joe Wicks: 'Fitness can be therapy for kids'

Visiting schools around Ireland to do workouts with kids, fitness coach Joe Wicks talks to Caroline Hennessy about how parents can be positive role models for their children 
Joe Wicks: 'Fitness can be therapy for kids'

Joe Wicks: "If I didn’t have PE at school as a kid, I didn’t think I could have coped, I would have been overwhelmed"

“As parents, we really have to acknowledge and accept our responsibility. We have to work to be the role models. We have to move ourselves and encourage our kids to move.”

British fitness coach Joe Wicks, a man on a mission to get people moving, recently visited primary schools across Ireland. 

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