Hello and welcome to the midpoint. My guest today has been on my radar for almost 40 years.

He was part of a golden generation of athletes who captured the nation's hearts, well, certainly mine, in the 1990s when he dominated the high hurdles and became the fastest man on the planet.

He won every single major title and

44 races in a row apart from Olympic gold. We'll get on to that. Born in Cardiff to Jamaican

parents, he was an all-round sporting talent but somehow swerved cricket, rugby and football and

found his way to the track. It is of course Colin Jackson. Known for his megawatt smile and for looking

immaculate at all times. Colin's silky footwork led him to second place on Strictly Come Dancing. He was

robbed. And now he has a successful sports broadcasting career as well as still being involved

in the business side of athletics. He's always kept his personal life away from the media

and waited until long after his athletics retirement to talk about his sexuality, coming out as gay in 2017.

He supported countless charities, including setting up Godad Run to raise awareness of men's health issues and money for many male-based charities, including prostate cancer.

He is one of the nicest blokes you could ever meet, and I'm delighted that you're going to get to do that today. So let's go chat to Colin. Colin Jackson,

welcome to the midpoint. Thank you very much. Can't believe it's taken me this long to get you here.

It's absolutely fine. You knew I was always going to come at some stage, so it's great.

Technically, you are older than me. Yes. So, you know, kind of, you are in the midpoint still and you've been there for a while, but because you look so useful, you know, I didn't have you on my initial guest list. I was like, oh, when he eventually gets there, this is the guy who's got a portrait in an attic somewhere that clearly is aging and he isn't, which is something we've teased you about for a long time.

You have. So today we're going to kind of unlock all the secrets.

Okay. All right. Okay.

To your kind of youthful appearance, amongst other things. But we just had a kind of off-pod

conversation that you started and I said, hold it. You said, I'm on the warrior diet. Yeah. Okay, let's start with that. Okay, so the warrior diet, Steve Batley, great traveling a throw as you very well know. I saw him at one of the Diamond Leagues and he just looked a million dollars from what I saw. And I thought, quite rudely, what happened to you? You look great. Not like you look like hell before, but you absolutely look great. He went, CJ, I've got to tell you, I'm on this thing called the Warrior Diet. I was like, okay, talk to me a little bit about it. And he said, well, basically, it's like 20 hours of not eating, four hours of eating.

Right. And so you choose your four hours of eating. They've got to be in that one block. The rest of time is complete fasting, right? So I said, okay. Not even a coffee or a... You can have a coffee. You can have water. You can have mint teas. All that is doable. And I said to me, so why did you go on there? And he said because of inflammation, body inflammation,

and he felt that it's really worked wonders for him. So I thought, oh, this sounds pretty good, you know, as we're all getting a bit older. My skin's not as good as it used to be. And there was all a little bit of, you know, a little bit of inflammation here, there and everywhere. and I thought to myself, well, I'm going to go on that, but not quite yet. So what I did is have a word of my sister, who's a little bit older than me, so she has a little bit more inflammation of me. And I said to her, look, Batley's on his diet. He said, it's amazing. Go on it, Sue, and see how it goes. She goes, yeah, okay. She goes, because she has like arthritic toes and hips. So she said, let me have a go. Is this seven days a week?

Seven days. Sue and see how it goes. She goes, yeah, okay, she goes because she has like arthritic toes and hips.

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