00:00these were shape Gods symmetry gods they
00:05stand above everyone else they're
00:06actually multigenerational Gods because
00:09before and since it's rare to see people
00:11of that kind of shape genetics what was
00:13it that kept all of those guys from ever
00:16winning the Mr Olympia the answer is
00:25the8 hey folks Dr Mike here for RP
00:28strength I've been a longtime professor
00:31of exercise and sports science I'm a
00:33competitive bodybuilder and Brazilian
00:34Jitsu Grappler and I'm also
00:37balding oh we're on TV
00:41still Dorian Yates one of the greatest
00:44Olympians of all time six times people
00:47showed up to the Mr Olympia contest with
00:50hopes and dreams and desires and prayers
00:53and wishes and expectations of winning
00:56and six times they were all denied by
00:59the one man they called The
01:02Shadow do you like terrible barely
01:06articulated impressions of a universal
01:10but non-existent British accent you're
01:12going to get a lot of them from me today
01:14cuz we're reviewing Mr Duran Yates
01:17Olympian training routines we're going
01:19to try to be critical in a respectful
01:20way because when you win six olympias
01:22kind of earned infinite respect in a
01:25sense um we're going to have some jokes
01:27all for the laws folks all for the
01:29laughs all and good fun let's take a
01:31look at what Dorian AG trains like 3 2
01:351 uh oh let's go in uh professional
01:40bodybuilding circles when I was
01:42competing I was known as The Game
01:43Changer yeah I thought it was the
01:46shadow what a terrible
01:49start that was because I brought a new
01:54muscularity uh size and condition to
01:57professional bodybuilding this is
01:59actually a really interesting point on
02:00sort of bodybuilding history and uh in
02:03bodybuilding history I know very little
02:05if you want to learn a lot dror Eric
02:08Helms and uh I believe Omar ISU run uh a
02:12YouTube channel and podcast together
02:15where they it's called iron culture and
02:16they talk about bodybuilding history a
02:18ton Eric Helms might know more about
02:20bodybuilding history than definitely
02:22anyone else and maybe than is reasonable
02:24or necessary but godamn does he know a
02:27 so he could tell you a lot about
02:28errors and Transitions and changes
02:29emphases but one thing I do know is that
02:32Dorian Yates changed the game in a big
02:34way for sure he brought a next level of
02:37size something that at the time well
02:39later a little bit was called '90s size
02:41you just didn't see people that big in
02:43the 80s on average on stage Lee Haney
02:47who was the best of a generation and the
02:50tied for the best of all time with eight
02:51Mr olympas dominated the 80s in
02:53bodybuilding and from what I understand
02:55he was on stage roughly 245 LBS or so
02:58and uh Dorian eight brought a 265 to the
03:01stage and I think was a smidge shorter
03:04than Lee and that's a big deal but
03:07there's another deal Dorian brought at
03:10that size a level of conditioning that
03:12you would see every blue moon from a
03:14bodybuilder that weighed 190 or 210 lbs
03:17Dorian brought that and he brought
03:19something a little bit more special
03:21photos and videos don't quite do it
03:23justice from what I understand because
03:24I've communicated with a few folks who
03:26saw it in real life back in the day and
03:28even in photos uh there was almost a new
03:31term invented for dorian's appearance
03:33his level of conditioning which in
03:34bodybuilding circles just means how lean
03:36you are it doesn't have anything to do
03:38with how many push-ups you can do and
03:39run the mile his level of conditioning
03:42was termed grainy it looked like he had
03:44sandpaper under his skin and he also
03:46looked like he didn't have skin was just
03:49sandpaper wild it was wild stuff it was
03:51described by people who saw it in real
03:52life to be like d I don't even know that
03:54is what how did that happen now that
03:58combination of size and conditioning
04:01size and leanness brought Dorian home
04:04six Sandow trophies six Mr Olympia
04:06titles but let's be completely Frank
04:09here Dorian Yates never had good
04:13proportions quote unquote now compared
04:15to regular human unbelievable
04:16proportions a God among men but among
04:19the genetically gifted Elite of the ifbb
04:22professional League at the time and
04:24before and since Duan didn't exactly
04:27have standout structure his waist wasn't
04:29super narrow his muscles weren't super
04:30bubbly and Dorian Yates victories in
04:34that sense are a little bit special
04:36because if you look at someone like Phil
04:38Heath all due Mega respect one of the
04:42greats his size was ridiculous his
04:44conditioning was next to level but his
04:47shape and structure were like well his
04:49nickname is the gift the gift from God
04:53so you can look at Phil and go I mean
04:55yeah but you look at Dorian maybe
04:57offseason and you know it's not standing
04:59next to anyone he's a big dude but
05:02didn't have like such a crazy shape
05:04there were guys in the early 9s let's
05:07see if I can get a couple off the top of
05:09my head Kevin levone Shawn Ray Flex
05:14wheeler in a sense Paul DEET the Chris
05:18Chris Cormier Cormier I don't know he
05:19says and list goes on these were shape
05:24Gods symmetry gods they stand above
05:28everyone else they're actually multigen
05:29erational Gods because before and since
05:32it's rare to see people of that kind of
05:34shape genetics and what was it that kept
05:37all of those guys from ever winning the
05:40Mr Olympia the answer is Dorian Yates
05:44never had amazing structure but what he
05:47had was an unbelievable amount of muscle
05:49with the kind of conditioning that when
05:50he was on stage against the best in the
05:52world he just there was Dorian there was
05:54kind of everybody else in a certain
05:56sense that happened a bunch that's a
05:57magical magical thing why am I making a
06:00big point of this because when you got
06:01all the tools and you win everything
06:02people yeah makes sense but Dorian
06:04didn't have all the tools but he made up
06:06for not having all the tools all of the
06:08genetic structure with well I'm pretty
06:10sure he out trained everyone in a sense
06:13and his dedication was super wellknown
06:15he's that magical very rare thing in
06:18sports which almost never happens in
06:20sports where grit and dedication and
06:26unfaltering loyalty to the craft in some
06:30small sense overcome some genetic
06:32disadvantages and that's awesome and I
06:35think why in some sense Dorian lives as
06:37kind of a spe animal in all of our hands
06:39so in any case this is all real deal and
06:43I did that by training average 45
06:46minutes four times a week where many of
06:49my competitors were training 2 or 3
06:51hours a day uh around uh six days a week
07:0145 minutes four times a
07:04week I wonder if that includes warm-ups
07:08I think Dorian emphasized recovery a lot
07:10good I think that if he would have
07:14trained maybe a little bit more maybe 5
07:16days a week maybe he could have been
07:17even better and I know I know it's not
07:20it's a little rude which I understand
07:23and uh it's a little confusing when some
07:26worthless nobody like me says somebody
07:29else 10 times better than me at the very
07:30thing that I want to be good at could
07:32have done it better it's weird it's a
07:34weird vibe but it's also true No One
07:37winner No One champion no one best of
07:39the thing at everything has all the
07:41answers and we can all be wrong on stuff
07:43there are many scientific things that I
07:45say that I went to school a long time
07:47for which I think Dorian could probably
07:49correct me on and I think that training
07:52four days a week is well but for muscles
07:56that recover much quicker shoulders
08:00forearms sometimes calves sometimes
08:02triceps depending on how you train them
08:04training more frequently might actually
08:06be a better idea and uh all the muscles
08:10I just listed specifically biceps and
08:12shoulders were never really Dorian
08:15strong suit compared to his competition
08:17and maybe he could have benefited from
08:18training those a little bit more
08:19frequently muscles like the chest back
08:22legs you smash him once a week like
08:24psychotically hard it just takes that
08:26long for them to recover where once a
08:27week training frequency works really
08:28well for them especially when you're
08:30Dorian sized you just need that recovery
08:32time can you intelligently train twice a
08:34week each muscle when you're Dorian
08:35sized yes absolutely but once a week
08:37also works super super well for smaller
08:39muscles that recover faster maybe a bit
08:41more frequency would have been uh
08:43slightly more ideal but uh you got to
08:45take that with the biggest grain of salt
08:46ever cuz who the am I all right Blood
08:48and Guts time in 13 years of
08:51bodybuilding Dorian Yates has gained 70
08:54lbs of muscle and made the journey from
08:56the back streets of Birmingham England o
08:59and Bam in a minute back in streets and
09:03they I love love love the British
09:07criminal underworld references I Can't
09:10Get Enough Scott don't you feel like
09:11you're in like a what's that you
09:13watch on TV peaky blinders all the way I
09:17know the set in the 1920s or some
09:19 but to me never changed I love it I
09:21can't get enough of this each body
09:24part is trained every 6 days using a
09:274-day split he trains two days on one
09:30day off 2 days on one day off and then
09:33repeats this cycle that is a very
09:36interesting way of training and I would
09:37say really smart so it's an asynchronous
09:39split which means your workouts don't
09:41line up to the week sometimes Sunday is
09:43off sometimes Sunday is legs but two on
09:46one off is really awesome because you
09:49can go hard and get in that groove of
09:50training for two days and then you get a
09:52rest day every other day or every two
09:55days and it really heals you up in a
09:56huge way physiologically and
09:58psychologically and so this is really
10:01really awesome and I guess if we're to
10:03believe that he did two on one off two
10:05on one off to me that's actually a
10:07little bit more than 4 days a week of
10:09training that seems to be more like four
10:11to five days a week of training so uh a
10:15little bit higher of a frequency than
10:17mentioned elsewhere but uh this is just
10:19sounds like a really smart split I'm
10:21currently doing three on one to two days
10:25off depending on how recovery is going
10:26and then three on one to two days off
10:28using the the RP hypertrophy
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10:46now it works super super well for me
10:49because I get to auto regulate my
10:51recovery sometimes I'll train 3 days and
10:52I feel amazing I'll just train
10:54another three days sometimes I'll TR
10:56train three days and I feel man I need a
10:58day off I'll take a day off
10:59sometimes I'll train three days and I'm
11:01like dude bro what the hell I'll take a
11:03day off and my body's still like this
11:05ain't it I need another day off I'll
11:06take two days off I'm really real
11:08covered and then I go into it again it
11:09works well give the asynchronous split
11:11some thought we do Scott the video guy
11:13we do have videos about the asynchronous
11:14split don't we ha Google that
11:18you'll see dorian's form is textbook
11:20perfect he controls the weight on the
11:22way down then pushes it back in a
11:25precise non-explosive
11:27style the next ntion is everything um
11:32like a Discovery Channel documentary the
11:34female hyena pounces on her prey uh
11:38generally agree this is really good
11:39stuff full range of emotion good control
11:41on the Ecentric anything I say here
11:43would be super nitpicky so this is great
11:45he uses a full range of motion on all
11:51exercises his aim is to promote the
11:53greatest amount of stress on the muscle
11:55not to exercise his ego by using immense
11:58poundages in sloppy form smart real
12:03smart well you know it's funny when you
12:05get strong enough that four plates on
12:09uh considered not immense poundages
12:21it you guys notice as the set progresses
12:25the only change is the Reps get a little
12:27slower there's no no technique change
12:30there's no ego there's no
12:31heaving there's no hoing well
12:33unfortunately there's no hoing
12:37right this is good stuff this is proper
12:40training all right I'm going to go look
12:41at that again make an
12:45analysis let's go let K die again come
12:57yeah yeah because the spotter's hands
13:00are on the bar it's tough to tell how
13:01close to failure that really is but I
13:03think the spotter's really helping a
13:05little bit on that last rep which means
13:06it's actually Beyond failure which is
13:08really dope um I will say I have to make
13:11this joke um Dorian kind of like
13:14reinvented and perfected training to
13:16failure and Beyond and I guarantee you
13:19if you post this video today some
13:21 in the comments would be
13:23like yeah man he had at least two reps
13:24left in the tank like ah yes of course
13:27you would say that click on profile no
13:30picture zero posts follows 800 has one
13:33follower thank you you're not a human
13:35being folks there is still more video to
13:38come don't click away but if you want
13:39the extended edition of this video raw
13:42uncensored uncut full of well things I
13:44can't say right now because it's full of
13:47them you see our member's area is the
13:49place to go so give that a
13:51look oh yes sque me good
13:57solid yes want finish come on Dorian you
14:02wink uh no offense Dorian if you ever
14:08this let's go if I had to be real picity
14:11emphasizing The Squeeze probably doesn't
14:13do a whole lot for muscle growth it's an
14:14interesting variation you can try every
14:16now and again but uh he's already hit
14:18incline upper part of the pecs he's hit
14:20a flat press which is dope whole PEC and
14:22now he's doing a decline fly which
14:24generally is good he's using a really
14:25big full range of motion Big Stretch at
14:26the top uh which is really awesome
14:33in let's do one more one more come on
14:43nice Scott can't get enough so good I
14:46can't it's so good it's so good you need
14:48a you need an English man yelling at you
14:50in the gym or you're just not growing as
14:51much as you could so you guys saw durian
14:53had help from his training partner to do
14:54that full range of motion every single
14:56time what we're learning recently in
14:58science uh in the science of of lifting
15:00and getting jacked is maybe if Dorian
15:02wanted to go beyond failure another
15:04interesting thing for him to try in a
15:06time machine I'll take that back for you
15:08guys to try in the gym is instead of
15:11having someone help you lock that full
15:12 out when you can no longer lock it
15:15out go as much as you can and when you
15:18can barely move at all then the set is
15:20over super failure integrated with
15:23lengthened partials partials at the
15:25lengthened muscle position at the
15:26stretch muscle position those to be
15:29superior for hypertrophy they're going
15:31to be really fatiguing but they might be
15:33worth it in your case especially if
15:34you're small you have trouble really
15:36training super hard and feeling the
15:37muscle you got to go to town on this
15:52curls yes it's not ideal you can see
15:54he's hipping into it I'm not mad at it
15:56but less hipping into it would be good
15:59this is a great movement my
16:01recommendation for you guys at home is
16:02to take the incline bench and turn it
16:03literally down into a flat bench lay
16:06down on the flat bench and do the curls
16:07till the dumbbells touch the ground and
16:08come back up you get even more tension
16:11applied at the stretch which will grow
16:12your biceps maybe even a little bit
16:14better than the incline curl the incline
16:16curl is a great exercise they use it all
16:17the time they can all be the best
16:18exercise but lying dumbbell curls is
16:21some you guys get uh should give a
16:23shot to it might be worth it business as
16:29in I steal you it's going
16:32again I got to say yelling at Dorian is
16:36hard work somebody's got to do
16:43interesting so we went to failure on the
16:45two ARM version and we know that there
16:48is a situation in human physiology in
16:51which doing one arm or one leg at a time
16:53can push you a little bit beyond what
16:54you would be maxed out with both so now
16:56he's doing one arm at a time which is
16:57really curious I've never seen this
16:59before um and also notice that his
17:02breast is entirely out of his tank top
17:04my God somebody censor this video all
17:08right folks let's do some take-home
17:10points because unlike most of our
17:12Hollywood training which has no
17:13take-home points other than go home and
17:14shoot yourself in the dick this has some
17:17interesting lessons in it on the
17:20critical side you might need more sets
17:24to failure or close than Dorian did cuz
17:26once he got really really big and strong
17:28each set was so stimulative he didn't
17:30need that many of them nor could he
17:31recover from that many you probably need
17:33more sets that's the
17:36criticism the things to take away that
17:39are really insightful here there a
17:41couple of them one Dorian did really
17:43good technique unless you think you got
17:46some kind of Ace of Spades out on him do
17:49good technique too because
17:51a lot of the people that treat Dorian as
17:53a spirit animal rightfully so for hard
17:55training also suck dick at technique and
17:57they're terrible and it's like what but
17:59the but the Dorian use good technique
18:01would you you don't think you agree with
18:02that part but you agree with theing
18:03screaming get out of my face everyone
18:05needs to be doing good technique it's
18:07more effective and it's safer I don't
18:09know what the argument is against that I
18:11don't like to do it slow clap who gives
18:13a you after massive muscle gains
18:15you're going to do what it takes not
18:16what you like facts as a matter of fact
18:19from what I remember there was a
18:21training style popular for a short time
18:24in the muscle magazines and among some
18:26pros in the in the 90s called
18:27instinctive training they didn't really
18:29plan their training out didn't log book
18:31anything Dorian log booked his whole
18:33career from what I understand and they
18:35would just kind of go in and whatever
18:37muscle they felt like training they
18:38would train it and whatever exercises
18:41and loads they felt like using they
18:43would use which is unfortunately how a
18:45lot of bodybuilders train now they could
18:47benefit from learning from Dorian and
18:49they asked Dorian what do you think
18:50about instinctive training and he said
18:51something to the fact of if I did
18:53instinctive training I would be on my
18:55couch right now having a beer because
18:56that's what I feel like doing you got to
18:58do this that you need to do not
19:00necessarily the that you want to do
19:01now if what you need to do has some
19:03options definitely choose the ones that
19:05are preferable to you if you can either
19:07hack squat or leg press yeah you don't
19:09like leg presses currently but you love
19:10hack squats hack squat away to your
19:12heart's content but you got to go hard
19:14and if you don't feel like going hard
19:16either take a D Lo or shut the up about
19:18it that's really the one of the main
19:19points of this whole video analysis
19:22dorian's trying and then on top of that
19:25he tries some more and on top of that
19:27when you think he's done he's still
19:29trying and then it's four straps and
19:30he's still trying if relative effort the
19:34ability to push yourself to your limits
19:35is a problem for you I only have one
19:37solution you go on YouTube and you watch
19:39The Blood and Guts Dorian H training DVD
19:42from start to finish and if that doesn't
19:44help you train harder you're hopeless
19:46just pick up tennis or another Hobby in
19:48which you don't have to go to failure
19:50anyway I give Dorian Yates a legend out
19:52of 10 is my rating and uh Big Ups isn't
19:56that what they say you if you know it
19:57Kingdom folks if I'm ever in the UK
20:00again please don't stab me I know you
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