Couldn’t decide to put this in this thread or the newer “Kevin Levrone” thread, but since this is really an interview with Yates, it goes here.
Very honest thoughts about 2008 Mr. Olympia from both!
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
Seize- Are you serious? How can those two dudes be serious bodybuilders? I mean, in that pic, they’re both smooth and you can’t see every detail of their abs. You can’t even see striations on their quads.
Crazy how people can just let themselves go like that.[/quote]
STEELY:
U be hijackin da treds wit all da sawcastic comments. Dont u no dat postin on da fowum iz serious bizniz, punk?!
[quote]Seize wrote:
Dorian has always been my fave.
…dude is just beastly!!!
Here’s a pic of him and I think Gustavo Badell.
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That’s not Gustavo Badell; I don’t even think he was on the map at that time.
Man makes me laugh watched his blood and guts DVD the other day he’s got such a Brummie accent remind me of home hahaha.
This picture is right next to the low row machine in my gym, its awesome motivation
I can’t remember where I read this and I’m too lazy to look it up. It might have been in Blood&Guts itself maybe in the credits. I believe it was the filmer of Blood & Guts regarding Dorian’s intensity.
During the filming of Blood&Guts, the cameraman messed something up and didn’t capture Dorian performing one of the exercises for whatever reason. At the end, he asked him to re-do one set of the lat pulldowns, and Dorian said no. He trained at such an intensity that it was physically impossible for him to even pretend to do another set. So the camera man had to come back and re-film the entire back workout the next week to capture what he missed.
[quote]Ironfreak wrote:
I can’t remember where I read this and I’m too lazy to look it up. It might have been in Blood&Guts itself maybe in the credits. I believe it was the filmer of Blood & Guts regarding Dorian’s intensity.
During the filming of Blood&Guts, the cameraman messed something up and didn’t capture Dorian performing one of the exercises for whatever reason. At the end, he asked him to re-do one set of the lat pulldowns, and Dorian said no. He trained at such an intensity that it was physically impossible for him to even pretend to do another set. So the camera man had to come back and re-film the entire back workout the next week to capture what he missed.[/quote]
I heard that story in the video where Dugdale goes to England to be trained by Yates. Yates said that it would mess up his training to do anymore!
I would love to see in this thread a kind of “Tao of Dorian” ie his philosophies on training and nutrition. I am a big fan, but his career was over when I began the iron game. I nearly always use the “Yates Row” on my program (Underhand grip BB row to the lower abs)
[quote]MiJuggernaut wrote:
I would love to see in this thread a kind of “Tao of Dorian” ie his philosophies on training and nutrition.
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That what this (and the other similar ‘The [BB’er Name] Thread’ threads) are supposed to be all about! Pics, training, philosophies, stories, legend, inspiration, etc.
Shame his books are either out of print or very expensive, he always seems a more interesting individual than most.
I keep telling the guy I bench with to spot me like Dorian’s guy:
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
I keep telling the guy I bench with to spot me like Dorian’s guy:
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is this a training video ore is it a documentary on tower of london 
Don’t want to go on about this but just to clear things up, Dorian’s skinhead phase had nothing to do with being racist. Rather it was more a generational issue, about rebelling against the political (and similar) insitutions of the time.
Dorian clarified this in one of his interviews.
Dorian’s closest friend through his 20s (also the best man at his wedding), nicknamed Choc, was black.
And as someone has said already, his ex-wife was half-Chinese.
Also, he got the tatt removed because of perceptions, particularly outside of the UK, when he began to be more widely known.
Okay enough chatter, some more pics. This one a few months out from the 1994 O I believe.
Edit: Okay not the pic I intended. This one’s from the 96 O.
Posted this one in another thread fairly recently, but damn it’s insane.
[quote]justrob wrote:
No caption could do this one justice. [/quote]
He could’ve walked on stage like that and dominated, but he decided to come in even harder. Amazing.