Matthew Morsia, also known as Legend on the Gladiators Tv show, was a professional bodybuilder, powerlifter and international athlete. He was born on January 19, 1986, in Folkestone, Kent, United Kingdom.
In his early days, Legend had a keen interest in sports. While growing up, his passion was to be a footballer for England. Unfortunately, he didn’t turn out to be a footballer, but an athlete, when he was just 18 years old.
Matt represented England in the triple jump and was keen on representing England in the Olympics. When it all looked like he was making headway in athletics, he got a prolapsed disc in his spine, which forced him to quit athletics for good. In a bid to recover from this dangerous and career-threatening injury, Matt started to work on his body in the Gym.
While at the gym, he fell in love with bodybuilding and decided to take a professional career in bodybuilding and powerlifting. Prior to Legend’s retirement from professional bodybuilding and powerlifting, In 2016, he participated in the European Powerlifting Championships, and his hard work of consistent bodybuilding paid off and he ended up winning a silver medal.
After retiring from the professional world, Legend from Gladiators set up a YouTube channel to help people in their fitness journey, where he uploads his fitness and food challenge videos, which are major sources of motivation and entertainment to many of his followers. His YouTube channel, ‘MattDoesFitness’, has over 2 million subscribers.
Matt is unarguably a veteran in fitness and one of the UK’s top fitness YouTubers. The 37-year-old has also uploaded more than 1247 fitness videos on his channel. Unsurprisingly, Matt didn’t stop there; he also extended his experience to Instagram @mattdoesfitness, where he has over one million followers.
Like all professional bodybuilders, he has a diet he strictly follows, which he also shares with his ardent followers. Matt is known to be a family man and has been married to his wife Sarah, since 2012. The former PE teacher has two boys with his wife, who’s also a fitness enthusiast.
He owns Morsia Gym, Morsia energy drink, and MattDoesFitness app. Aside from his own businesses, Matt is sponsored by Gymshark, a popular fitness apparel company in the UK and MyProtein, a supplement brand.
Matt is indeed a legend, and we can’t wait to see him do what he’s great at on the show.
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