Joe Wicks cuts PE sessions to 3 days a week as he ‘needs a rest’

Joe Wicks has announced that he is cutting down the number of PE With Joe sessions from five to three days a week.

The fitness sensation, 33, has been putting children (and plenty of adults) through their paces during lockdown with his daily PE lessons.

Wicks, also known as the Body Coach, first decided to broadcast the daily workouts to help keep children fit when schools shut down back in March.

He has kept the PE With Joe programme up and running on YouTube ever since, recruiting his wife Rosie as a “supply teacher” when he needed to rest after undergoing surgery for an injured hand in May.

Wicks will continue to lead his workouts every day this week, but will then only host sessions on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays going forward to give himself “a little bit of a break.”

“This is going to be the last full week of PE With Joe,” he told viewers on Monday morning.

“So I'll be doing Monday to Friday this week, but as of next week I'm going to reduce the timetable slightly - I'm going to do Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.

"You can still come and take part but I'm just reducing the timetable, I just need a bit of a rest really, a little bit of a break."

In an Instagram post confirming the changes, Wicks said that he felt “very proud” to have brought “so many people together during lockdown.”

“I’ve loved every minute of it,” he wrote. “All 13 weeks of it. It’s been so much fun and I’ve laughed so much.”

He added that the workouts have been viewed almost 70 million times worldwide.

Wicks previously confirmed that he would donate all proceeds from PE With Joe to NHS Charities Together.