This archive report was first published on 23 September 2019.
Former World's Strongest Man winner Eddie Hall had the ultimate workout buddy when he spent a day with his childhood hero, Arnold Schwarzenegger, in the UK.
On a recent visit to the UK, Schwarzenegger invited Hall to his hotel in Wales, where they had drinks in the evening and then met up the following morning for an hour-long gym session.
"It's a really nice, humbling feeling," said Hall of meeting his hero.
After their gym session, Hall and Schwarzenegger chilled out over breakfast and smoked cigars together.
"I never thought when I was seven years old, watching Terminator 2, watching Arnold walk into that bar for the first time butt naked, kicking the shit out of 20 outlaws, riding off on a new motorbike, that I'd be sat having breakfast, smoking a cigar with that guy 24 years later," Hall said.
Not included in the video was the secret, off-screen chat that Hall had with Schwarzenegger about an as-yet-undisclosed project, which he says "should come to light in a couple of weeks," adding: "Big news. I'm going into business with Arnold, basically. I'm super stoked, super excited."
