Here is the journey of one Chinese student who is experienced in both bodybuilding and powerlifting. His name is Jindou Zou and he went to university in Xiamen. Now, he is 24 years old and he is a graduate student at the University of Florida. Just like most of the Chinese post-90s generation, he doesn’t have the chance to go to the normal gym and train formally when he was young. But when he went to college, he started to go to the gym and began his own journey. 

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The reason why he began his journey is that he wanted to be stronger so he could be more competitive in basketball. So, he started to go to the gym and learned the basic knowledge of bodybuilding in his freshman year. Through years of training, he successfully gained quite an amount of muscle and was more muscular than his classmates. But when he went abroad for further study after he graduated, he found there were still gaps between him and foreign students. So, he decided to go further and he participated in one NPC competition in Orlando. And this is a turning point in his fitness career. After the bodybuilding competition, he found that he didn’t agree with some spirits and judgment standards of the game. And he started to realize what truly makes him happy is the heavyweight other than the simple repetition of different movements. But we could say he will never find out this if he did not participate in that NPC competition. So, he decided to switch to the powerlifting from bodybuilding. After he switched to powerlifting, he trained for one year in a powerlifting program and participated in a powerlifting competition in Tampa. And this time, he won the champion. And he has the goal to devote himself to this sport in the future.

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As what he said in the video, he used to feel alone because very few people can understand why he loves the sport and I believe this could happen on other Chinese youths or anyone who loves this “unpopular” sport, but after seeing this video, you’ll know you are not alone and there is someone loves this sport as much as you do.