- Power lifting.
- No
- Boxer.
Nope.
- Shot put.
- Man, you are so close.
- Welcome to "Guessing Gains"
A game where I find elite athletes,
size them up and guess exactly what they do.
I have three guesses.
Let's go.
I'm here at the Arnold Expo, where there are hundreds
of sports and elite athletes of all types.
And today I'm gonna guess what type of athlete are you?
All right,
so first, what is your name and where are you from?
- My name's Jared,
and I'm from a little town called Rushville, Ohio.
- How long have you been doing your sport?
- Four years.
- What's the most common injury of people in your sport?
- Broken bones.
- Without giving away,
what is a common misconception about your sport?
- You gotta be ginormous to be successful.
- For my first guess, are you a wrestler?
- Close.
- Do you do jujitsu?
- Nope.
- Are you a Olympic weightlifter?
- Nope.
- All right, that was three, and I'm out.
What are you?
Arm wrestling.
Arm wrestler.
- Arm wrestler.
- Yep,
and when I say broken bones, I actually snapped my bone.
- Cheers man, appreciate it.
- Thank you guys.
- I'm Dmitri, I'm from Ithaca, New York.
- How long have you been doing your sport?
- I've been doing it for about five, six years.
- What is a common injury in your sport?
- A concussion.
- Fighting involved maybe.
Without giving it away,
what is a common misconception about people in your sport?
- That we can't move,
or
that we're slacking off when we're doing it.
- Are you a football player?
- Absolutely not.
- Are you a boxer?
- Nope.
- Are you a UFC fighter?
- Me? No.
- All right, man,
three, three strikes and I'm out.
What, what is your sport?
- Medieval, armored combat.
It looks like knights fighting,
for real.
- Sounds like the oldest sport alive.
All right, cheers man, thanks for playing.
- Thank you very much.
Have a good one. - You too.
- My name is Christian McClellan - McPoppy,
over in Austin, Texas.
- How long have you been doing your sport?
- Technically, like nine months, almost a year.
- What is a common injury in your sport?
- Oh, torn biceps.
I said that so enthusiastically.
Yeah, torn biceps.
- What is a common misconception about athletes
in your sport?
- That it's not a sport.
- First guess, is it wrestling?
- No.
- Power lifting?
- No.
- Are you a strong man?
- Not my title.
- All right, three strikes and I'm out.
- Where's my a hundred bucks?
- What kind of athlete are you?
- So I do the Scottish Highland games, which, you know
it could be considered a strong man sport
but it's a mixture of like strong man
and like track and field.
So we do shot put,
we do, we have the big trees and we flip the trees.
- Thanks for playing, thanks for your time.
- Oh, hell yeah.
- Good luck, man.
- My name's Jessica.
I'm from Indianapolis, Indiana.
- How long have you been practicing your sport?
- Over 30-years.
- What is the most common injury of your sport?
- That's a great question,
Probably something with either knees or ankles.
- Without giving it away, What is a common misconception
about people who do your sport?
- That it's only girls.
- Are you a cheerleader?
- No.
- Are you a dancer?
- Not a dancer.
- What is your sport?
- Jump rope.
- How, how does that-
are there competitions? How does that work?
- Yes. So, we had a competition here yesterday.
We do either individual.
We did double-unders, like with CrossFit, double unders.
And we did speed. How many jumps you can get in 30-seconds.
And we did double-dutch, with the two ropes.
- All right, well thank you for playing.
- You're welcome. Thank you.
- Cheers. - Thank you, cheers.
- My name is Gicole.
I'm from Baltimore, Maryland.
- How long have you been practicing your sport?
- My sport? I would say about like 12-years,
I've been practicing my sport.
- What is the most common injury in your sport?
- Most common injury, honestly is like a ACL tear.
- Without giving it away, what is a common misconception
for people who play your sport?
- A misconception is, is that it's not a rough sport.
A lot of people don't think that the injuries are there
or that you're really putting in the work
that it doesn't take a lot to do,
the type of thing that we do.
- All right, I'm gonna guess.
Are you you a power lifter?
- No, but I do power lift, but I'm not a power lifter.
- Track and field?
- Absolutely, no.
- Are you a wrestler?
- I am.
I am, I am, I am a professional wrestler.
That's what I do.
- Awesome, cheers man. Thanks for playing.
- All Right, man.
- My name's Zimba,
and I live in Kentucky.
- How long have you been practicing your sport?
- Since 2011, actively.
- What is the most common injury of your sport?
- Death.
- Without giving it away,
what is a common misconception of people who do your sport?
- That were daredevils,
or looking for an adrenaline rush.
- Okay. I got some ideas.
My first guess was, do you play hacky-sack?
- Very close, very deadly, but not hacky-sack.
- Do you tight-rope walk?
- Yes, but that's a secondary passion.
- Secondary passion.
All right, final guess.
Are you a climber?
- Yes, I am
- Cool man.
- Now, you knew that the whole time though, right?
- When you said death, I had a guess.
- You had a guess.
- Then I looked at your shoes and I was like-
- They're sort of falling apart.
- But I had on the long sleeves the whole time, I was like
he's not gonna see my forearms.
I don't have any stickers.
- I can't see your Subaru.
- It is a Subaru, he knew it. He knew it.
- Awesome. Well, you're the first climber that we've met.
- Sweet. Well thank you for your time.
- Cheers man.
- Cheers. Fun.
- The Arnold Expo reminded me to never judge a book
by its cover.
Everyone can find their own sport.
What kind of athlete are you?