00:00 So I am Giant as you just said, the gladiator, but behind Giant is a young 38 year old man
00:08 called Jamie Christian from Derby.
00:11 I was a very very avid fan of the show previously when it was on ITV and I was a fan of the
00:18 show before when I was 7 years old till 15 and that really inspired me to get into training
00:23 and bodybuilding and I hope I can do the same for the younger generation watching it now.
00:28 So I am Steel, the Mr Nice Guy, but very good at the games.
00:33 Real name is Zach George, age 33, I've been a professional CrossFit athlete for 10 years
00:38 and I was Britain's Fittest Man in 2020.
00:41 I would describe Sheffield as, oh my god this has just come to my head, Sheffield's got
00:46 to be one of the hilliest cities in the world.
00:51 Don't go for a walk in Sheffield unless you want a workout, that's what I would say.
00:56 Over and above that, I think I noticed it's a city that looks like it's developing in
01:03 terms of it's got some older areas and they look like they're putting a lot of money into
01:07 making the area a lot nicer.
01:08 So the modern architecture that I see and the city centre, it looks like it's having
01:12 a lot of money spent on it.
01:13 It looks like in I would say 5 years time it's going to be a very very nice place to
01:17 visit.
01:18 It still is a nice place to visit but it's going to be even nicer.
01:21 So obviously we touched on me being from Derby and I've visited Sheffield before, been to
01:26 the Meadowhall many times for a bit of shopping, you can't beat that.
01:30 And the Gladiators did come for the odd outing in Meadowhall so that was good.
01:33 But what we did find around where we were staying during the filming of the show, there
01:38 was a nice pizza place across the road called Rudy's, so that got hammered to be fair.
01:44 And then Roxy's Ballroom, I like a game of pool and that was some good downtime away
01:48 from the filming but yeah, Sheffield, great city.
01:52 So then Steel, so you had, as we've already mentioned between us, but 3 weeks to kind
01:58 of see the sights, get around Sheffield while Gladiators was being filmed in the arena here.
02:02 Tell us a bit about how you found the city, what was it like, you spent so much time here.
02:07 Absolutely loved it.
02:08 So first of all the crowd in the arena was absolutely insane, that was one point.
02:12 And it was just a great city to be in.
02:15 Obviously minding I am Steel and this is the City of Steel so I had a lot of support that
02:19 way as well.
02:20 But it was long days filming, 12 hours so we didn't get a lot of free time to go to
02:26 lots of places but we were eating out in great restaurants, went to a few different places
02:30 where they could play bowling and pool and things like that.
02:32 So just a really great friendly city.
02:35 So obviously we've all got individual strengths.
02:38 My strength is my size, my stature and that requires a lot of training.
02:42 So I would train probably 3 hours a day, 5 days a week.
02:45 It does require obviously rest to just make sure you can keep going and battle injuries
02:50 and recover.
02:51 But I'll tell you what people don't consider when you're trying to maintain a large amount
02:55 of size and muscle.
02:56 It takes a lot of eating as well.
02:58 So I might be eating for twice the amount of time I'm training.
03:01 So if I'm training for 3 hours a day I'll be eating for 6.
03:05 That's what I would say about me.
03:06 Breakfast is big, as you can imagine.
03:07 I just have to keep my breakfast away from Steel.
03:13 Steel's a load of nuts.
03:14 I don't know if I'm allowed to tell you that but that's his kryptonite.
03:19 Anyway, my bowl of oats in the morning is from a salad bowl.
03:23 So the salad bowl is probably as big as my head and it's full to the brim with oats,
03:29 blueberries, whey protein, nut butter, banana.
03:33 There's probably 2000 calories in that bowl of oats in the morning.
03:36 I eat a lot of porridge oats in the morning.
03:39 So I normally have a huge bowl that I probably feed for 3 people.
03:43 My friends are very used to me having a huge bowl of porridge.
03:46 And then alongside that I'll have a bacon as well.
03:50 So probably a breakfast that I normally feed 5 people.
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