My Saturday with Roz Purcell: 'Exercise is worth the effort of showing up, because you feel great afterwards'

Roz Purcell is a broadcaster, outdoors enthusiast and creator of The Hike Life. She is one of Ireland's most influential personalities with some 599k followers on Instagram and 52k on TikTok. Purcell is the author of five books and is the new co-host of RTE 2 FM’s breakfast show along with Carl Mullan and Aisling Bonner.

Roz Purcell pictured at last year’s An Post Irish Book Awards which were held in the Convention Centre, Dublin.

06.00

I get up at 6am every day and honestly it never gets any easier! I’ll contemplate if I can get any extra sleep and rearrange my day, but then I’ll get up and brush my teeth, go downstairs, let the dogs out and head straight to my boxing club.