British bodybuilding legend, Dorian Yates became an Olympia icon after winning six-consecutive championships from 1992 to 1997 and recently made the claim that his front lat spread pose was the greatest of all time—incredibly, the internet mostly agreed. Now the big man has fans divided however...
Dorian Yates was known for his brutal workouts and landing 6 consecutive Olympia titles between 1992 and 1997, but despite his love of free weights, “The Shadow” also knew when it was time to turn his attentions to a machine, as he explained in a recent Instagram post.
Using footage from his...
While six-time Olympia champion Dorian Yates is famed for releasing his Blood & Guts bodybuilding video guide in 2003, the Englishman still has plenty of exercises to share that didn’t make the cut. Here, “The Shadow” explains the importance of the simple shrug to his legendary success.
“Here’s...
Dorian Yates is a six-time Mr. Olympia, so when he speaks, the bodybuilding community listens and in a recent Instagram post, ‘The Shadow’ brought us some of his trademark no nonsense advice, sharing his preferred pulldown variation.
“So, yeah, why am I doing this, and I’m not doing this,”...
Dorian Yates was the standard-bearer in bodybuilding for the majority of the 1990’s. He is the only British Mr. Olympia winner, having held the title from 1992 to 1997. 25 years after his retirement from the sport, Yates is still considered a legend.
Yates joined fellow ’90s bodybuilders Milos...
The Dorian Yates story sometimes seems to have come from a 1930s movie. A “Dead End Kid” or a character out of “Boy’s Town”, a self-confessed juvenile delinquent who discovers that sport can be the path out of a problem youth and to find future success.
Dorian Yates was a “bad boy” as a teen...
Only 16 men have ever held bodybuilding’s biggest title, Mr. Olympia. Only five men have held that title for more than five years. One of those men is Dorian Yates. In spite of being one of the greatest competitors of all time, the man who hailed from the United Kingdom hasn’t done too many...
From 1992 to 1997, English bodybuilder Dorian Yates dominated the IFBB Pro League, racking up six Olympia wins. From his quads to his delts, he displayed muscle so dense and skin so thin that observers coined the term “grainy” to describe his otherworldly level of definition. But it was when...
Josh Wade was a fan of Jay Cutler’s as he was coming up the amateur ranks of bodybuilding, but he quickly saw that he was being compared with another Mr. Olympia: Dorian Yates. “I’ve heard and read how he was meticulous and detailed with his workouts,” Wade says. “I’m the same way. I’m up every...
EXCLUSIVE: Dorian Yates on steroid use, drug testing and rivals in bodybuilding
By Gary Chappell
PUBLISHED: 00:10, Wed, Aug 5, 2015
ONE of the most controversial, honest and thought-provoking interviews you will read this year has been published in the Daily Express and today we run the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJt_AJ80N_I
Old man Yates still killing it and pushing it harder than others! Just watch the beat down that ends the day at 6 minutes.