2018 Chinese Weightlifting Documentary Part 3: Gaining Weight and Tian Tao Segment

The athletes of the Chinese National Team talk about the challenge of gaining weight.
Tian Tao talks about his weight gain and his rivalry with Moradi.

[@fubagaming5780]

Some random dude passing out planet fitness type gym fliers to an olympian lol.

[@Robin-hv5tv]

LOL

[@clarity2115]

lmao, that was GOLD!

[@muellernikolai8630]

Oh my god he should have taken a private lesson with that trainer and pretended to be a noob and then out of the blue cleaned 240kg hahahaha

[@alfofoGMS]

...was that Let It Go from Frozen playing in the background? LOL

[@vcuteverything]

@2:07 I thought the same thing!

[@whatever77054]

Interestingly, Tian Tao did his best to gain weight as fast as possible but ended up gaining too much fat so he had to lose it all and start over. He has a big bowl of noodles every day before bed. Li Fabin was opposite; he said he needed to gain weight slowly and see that every 1kg of bodyweight translated to 3-5kg of total score before he grew more. When Tian Tao was chubby, he was once approached by a gym membership solicitor who asked him to join the gym. Tian Tao said, "I don't want to destroy all your equipment." And the guy said, "If you wanna look good, you need to lose weight," at which point Tian Tao said he had to choose in his head between walking away and beating his ass LOL He said he's very explosive and very strong but his snatch is limited by the grip of his small hands! Finally he mentioned that when faced with the choice to go down to 81 or up to 96, he chose the more difficult 96 because he was afraid that dropping weight would reduce the muscular support on his elbow and cause it to re-injure. He said his mental state wasn't optimized when he lifted in Rio but the second time should be much better.

[@whatever77054]

@@artvandelay8867 Didn't see that. Didn't turn them on.

[@SP1x5]

@@whatever77054 I know you made this comment 2 years ago but even so thank you for your effort to explain the video to others :)

[@junjieguo1656]

He is so humorous. Lol

[@PanzerCrewman]

Junjie Guo tell me about Chinese humour

[@Caleb-ee2nt]

He's so sunshine :)

[@RomanKondrachov]

Lol, random personal trainers that think they know it all :D

[@austinlee6248]

1:46 Tian Tao like oops

[@PhuongNguyen-ir3sn]

田涛加油，身材好，动作好明年肯定拿到96公斤级olympic的 冠军

[@trgjtk182]

At 2:07 I could’ve sworn I heard some frozen

[@lostshinegaro8989]

Ikr wth

[@Sanci777]

Shame he wasn't in Tokyo.

[@wolfemooney7188]

Really funny to thing that once again, Rostami might be a huge problem for Tian

[@xdavidliu]

2:19 does Li Fabin (I think that's who that is) have the barbell sitting on his clavicle? That may cause fainting, right?

[@dodgethehell]

I just pause at the food part to see what they are eating. I am hungry

[@joe718gt4]

He does have the best clean IMO but where did that reputation come from (aside from the US broadcast at 2018 World Championships)

[@jimmyzhu1741]

Probably cause every time he goes for a WR or near WR lift to save his competition, he never appears to struggle with the clean. Look at his 218 C&J when he was a junior. It tied the junior and senior WR at the time.

[@GrizzlyPanda347]

gaining weight >challenge

[@TheWanghnin]

Hahahahahahahahahaha he's so funny

[@trtnec]

I always wondered what the strongest pound for pound weightlifters on earth ate... shrimp with head-on, got it.

[@AbcDef-go8ds]

今年世锦赛不错！已经冠军了，明年肯定没问题。中国队出征，不容质疑！

[@bartbtsful]

Anyone know where I can find those kind of "small" straps?

[@chuokwongcheung9950]

bartbtsful its called single loop strap. Look it up

[@bartbtsful]

@@chuokwongcheung9950 2:26 They look different don't you think? I use the one of Rogue but hurt my hand because they are so big...

[@chuokwongcheung9950]

bartbtsful Ya that’s what they called. Maybe you can try Iron Mind single loop straps. Straps serve the same purpose, it’s just the matter of getting use to them hahah

[@郭宁-y9b]

根本听不见在说啥，mb

[@DagonBass666]

why couldnt he just go to 89kg?

[@kvn13]

It`s IWF but not Olympic category

[@hx5985]

3:38 (while Tian is gaining weight from 85kg to 95kg) Tian Tao was walking on the street with his dad, there is a man handing out flyers of a newly opened gym. That dude said “come to the gym, you will look better if you cut some weight” Tian replied “I am afraid i will destroy your place” (Tian was in a baggy down jacket so the dude cannot see his muscle) LOL

[@snakereaper2954]

Just a bunch of roid heads.

[@Bossman.official]

hater alert

[@snakereaper2954]

@@Bossman.official is not hate, is the true.

[@Bossman.official]

@@snakereaper2954 lmao going on to a comments section when everyone knows that competitors are all on substances while commented something so obvious but in a condescending way makes you look like a hater 100%. Maybe you're just jealous of the Chinese team.

[@Alex-lu3pn]

He's really fat though, if he was roiding like bodybuilders wouldn't he look like one? There are bodybuilders his height that look shredded at heavier than him. Not saying they're naturals, but this is nothing when compared to bodybuilding.

[@sammplified1939]

@@Alex-lu3pn he only looks fat now because he had to go up on a higher weight class and he had to do it in a short period of time. He was more shredded back when he was in the lower weight category.

[@rookiebird9382]

Why do I feel like it's wrong for Tian Tao to upgrade to 96kg class?

[@albin123003]

It was partly due to the fact that there was a huge weight gap from the lower weight class of 81kg to the next 96kg. Being previously in the 85kg class, going down to 81kg would have been the best choice in terms of difference in weight gain/loss, however all the lower weight classes are already packed with friendly-fires and teammates dominating in them. Li Fabin in 61kg, Chen Lijun in 67kg, Shi Zhiyong in 73kg and Lu Xiaojun/Li Dayin in 81kg. For Olympics or even IWF events, there can only be 1 winner. Especially for Olympics where there are new rules that each country can only send 1 competitor for each weight class and only up to 4 competitors/weight classes, Tian Tao was left with the least desirable choice to go up in weight class for a chance to be selected for the Olympic team.

[@fredastaire6156]

"I was out with my dad at night..." "...in the streets of Wuhan" Let that sink in! o_O