My sole goal when getting ready for a contest was not building a lot of size, although when I was coming up pure muscle size was still very important. I was always really concerned about coming in very sharp conditioning wise. Dorian Yates Read Quote
Yes, it is not all about training hard. If you do too many sets and too much volume overall, your body is just going to be spending all its time trying to recover and not overcompensating because it doesn’t have enough resources for that. Dorian Yates Read Quote
Back when I was competing in the Olympia I think you saw a lot of guys who were in really good shape. Dorian Yates Read Quote
I trained for size in the off-season, but when it came time to get ready for a contest it was all about coming in shredded. The glutes must be striated, with the lower back shredded, no water anywhere, no loose skin. Like you are covered in cling-film. Dorian Yates Read Quote
If you are in business and you can do something to get ahead of your rival business, you are going to do it. Dorian Yates Read Quote
It’s not good to lose your dad at any time but at 13 years of age you are just going through puberty and growing up and that was a very crucial time and was a hard time to lose my dad and it had a big effect on me. Dorian Yates Read Quote
You are hungry all the time for the last two months before a competition. Every survival thing on your body is telling you that you must eat. Dorian Yates Read Quote
I would always advise if you were to have several egg whites, include a couple of yolks in there because there are some amino acids in the yolks that are slightly lacking in the whites. Dorian Yates Read Quote
I started messing around in my teen years but didn’t really begin training properly until the age of 21. I did a lot of reading prior to that – Mike Mentzer, Arthur Jones and all other notable bodybuilding authors – and just came up with a routine that worked for me. Dorian Yates Read Quote
If I were to organize somebody’s diet I would first of all ensure they were getting enough protein, make sure it is the right quality with first class proteins primarily. Dorian Yates Read Quote
