Matt Morsia

Matthew Morsia (born 19 January 1986) is an English bodybuilder, fitness coach and television personality, known for appearing as "Legend" on the British endurance sports game show Gladiators. He is a former track and field athlete and powerlifter. He is also known by his social media profile "MattDoesFitness".

Early life
Matthew Morsia, born in Kent, Southeast England, attended the University of Kent.

Career
Morsia competed as an athlete in the long jump and the triple jump. He has described his early attempts at managing his body weight whilst competing as disordered eating. After suffering a stress fracture to his spine in 2012 he became a powerlifter. He won a silver medal at the European Championships in 2016.

He worked as PE teacher at Folkestone Academy whilst building up an online fitness clientele using the moniker MattDoesFitness. The success of his fitness coaching led him to leave his teaching job. He was given a YouTube Creator Award for gaining a million subscribers. The channel later had two and a half million subscribers. His book The 24/7 Body was published by Century in 2020.

In January 2024, he began appearing as "Legend" on British TV endurance sports game show Gladiators, where he is best known for his arrogant and self-obsessed character that has been popular with the show's viewers. He described the role as a "lifetime ambition", having been a huge fan of the original show when he was a child.

Personal life
Measuring roughly 6 ft 1 in tall and 212 lbs, Morsia is married to Sarah, and they have two sons, Luca and Mauro. They live in Hythe, Kent. He nowadays trains up to six days a week with bodybuilding and powerlifting, to keep up his physique he has achieved over the past decades.