Jessica Ennis-Hill

Bryony Gordon's Mad World

The Telegraph

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Getting to the end of some days in lockdown can feel like an Olympic effort, even for gold medallist Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill. She tells Bryony why the lockdown could help more people realise that even the smallest forms of exercise still count, why it's okay to live in lycra, and how even she struggles to get out of bed sometimes.

Jessica's fitness app, @wearejennis, also posts short workouts on their Instagram page.

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0:00.0	The Telegraph.
0:02.0	Podcasts.
0:04.0	Quite
0:07.0	Quite happy. Quite happy to be my PJs all day. What are you wearing right now? I am actually wearing. I feel like I'm being a bit saucy. Well now that you are.
0:23.2	This week everyone I'm very excited that Mad World is going to have its first Olympic gold medalist.
0:36.8	Will you please welcome the fantastic Dane Jessica Ennis Hill?
0:40.8	Hello.
0:41.8	Hi. Oh thank you for the lovely introduction. Do I call you do I have to call you Dame Jess Jessica or can I call you Jess? I had this conversation with Prince Harry when he came on and I was like can I call you
0:53.3	Hazar? What do your friends call you?
0:57.1	Oh everybody calls me Jess or Jessica so yeah nobody really uses the dame unfortunately.
1:03.6	But Jess is perfect.
1:05.2	Do you get your kids to call you dame, Jessica,
1:07.4	when you're like, you know, being strict mom?
1:10.2	That's Dame Jessica to you.
1:11.6	Oh, I should do. I should. I don't think they fully understand it and they just find it quite funny to be honest. But yeah, definitely when they're teenagers I think I might bring that one out.
1:20.0	Brilliant. Okay, so the first question we ask all guests is a question that we're probably asked a hundred times a day.
1:26.7	Maybe not so much at the moment now. We're in lockdown. We're not seeing people, but it's how are you really?
1:32.1	We're asked that question so often and we often just give the easiest
1:35.2	to answer. So what I'd like to know, Jess, Dame Jessica, how are you really right now?
1:41.3	I'm really good at the moment. Yeah I think obviously it's
1:45.5	quite a different time we're in at the moment or being in our homes and been in lockdown
1:49.4	but I'm feeling good I'm feeling positive about life and there's lots of different daily challenges
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