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Dorian Yates
Bodybuilder
File:Dorian Yates.png
Personal info
NicknameThe Shadow
Born (1962-04-19) 19 April 1962 (age 62)
Walmley, West Midlands, England
Height5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight235–290 lb (110–132 kg)
Professional career
Pro-debut
  • Night of Champions
  • 1990
Best win
  • IFBB Mr. Olympia 1992–1997, six consecutive times
PredecessorLee Haney
SuccessorRonnie Coleman
ActiveRetired 1997

Dorian Andrew Mientjez Yates (born 19 April 1962) is an English professional bodybuilder. He won the Mr. Olympia title six consecutive times from 1992 to 1997 and holds the fourth-highest number of Mr. Olympia awards of all time, ranking behind Ronnie Coleman (8), Lee Haney (8), and Arnold Schwarzenegger (7). He is widely considered one of the top athletes in modern bodybuilding history.[1][2][3][4]

Early life

Yates was born in Walmley, West Midlands, and grew up in rural Staffordshire. When he was a teenager, his family moved to Birmingham, West Midlands. During these times, he was sentenced to six months at a youth detention centre. He started working out in 1983.

Career

Yates' professional record consists of 15 major contest wins and two second-place finishes.

Yates' career ended in large part due to chronic acute injuries, including torn biceps and triceps, the latter just three weeks prior to his final contest, the 1997 Mr. Olympia contest, which he won in spite of the injury.

Yates espoused a style of training known as HIT "High Intensity Training," which states that maximum muscle stimulation can be reached through short, high-intensity workout sessions rather than long duration workouts.[5] The training style was originally popularized by Mike Mentzer.[6]

Yates earned the nickname of "The Shadow" for his tendency to unexpectedly appear at major bodybuilding contests and steal the win, having remained out of the public eye for long periods beforehand. He was reported to have turned down several large supplement endorsement contracts and avoided interviews and other television publicity in order to maintain privacy.

Post competition career

Inside Temple Gym at Birmingham

In 1987, Yates purchased Temple Gym, located on Temple Street in Birmingham.[7] In 2006, he franchised four additional Temple Gym locations, three of which are in the UK.

Yates formed the California-based company Heavy Duty Incorporated in 1994 with Mike Mentzer and Ray Mentzer.[8] The company marketed athletic apparel and bodybuilding-related books.

In 1998, Yates partnered with Kerry Kayes to form the bodybuilding supplement company CNP Professional, which marketed a Dorian Yates Approved[9] product line in the United States. He left the company in 2006 to form his own company, Dorian Yates Ultimate Formulas, which offers a line of protein and weight-gain supplements. He started a second company in 2010, EU Peptides, which sells peptide hormones and other pro-hormone supplements.

In 2011, he founded a third company, DY Nutrition, which specializes in pre-workout formulas and has released several training DVDs.[10] He left EU Peptides in 2012. In recent years, he has conducted several seminar tours internationally to discuss nutrition and his experiences in bodybuilding. He offers training videos and written commentary on his official website. In 2015 he produced the documentary All I Know is Pain.

Temple Gym

Yates and a partner took over the gym in 1987 and eventually became the sole owner of the gym. It has franchises in California, Las Vegas, and United Kingdom.[11] It's spread across 3000 square feet and situated in a dungeon. It has dumbbells up to 220 lbs.[12]

DY Nutrition

DY Nutrition is the line of supplements that consists of whey protein supplements, pre-workout and post-workout supplements owned and endorsed by Yates.[13]

Personal life

Yates is married to Brazilian fitness model Glauce "Gal" Ferreira.[14] She had won the IFBB South American Bodyfitness event and was also the IFBB World Bodyfitness Champion 2007.[15] They met each other for the first time at the 2008 Arnold Classic.[16] They live in Marbella. Yates' son, Lewis, has also taken up bodybuilding and works closely with his father.[17]

Yates has advocated alternative treatments for cancer, including the use of cannabis oil. He has also made statements in interviews concerning the negative health effects of sodium fluoride additives in tap water and the discovery of cancer viruses and sterilants in some vaccines. In a 2013 interview, he endorsed the use of some psychedelic entheogens for religious and spiritual purposes, including ayahuasca.[18] Yates has also taken several controversial political positions, such as calling for a new investigation of the 9/11 attacks.

Books and videos

In 1993, Yates published an autobiography titled Blood and Guts (ISBN 978-0-9636163-0-2).[19]

In 1996, Yates released a workout video (VHS) of the same title, which features his weekly weight training routines.

In 1998, Yates coauthored A Warrior's Story (ISBN 978-0-9534764-0-4),[20] in which he chronicles his path to success in bodybuilding.

In 2012, Yates released a mass gain video trainer in collaboration with bodybuilding.com called Blood and Guts, based on the HIT theory.[21]

Stats

  • Height: 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
  • Off Season Weight: 128–140 kg (282–309 lb)
  • Competition Weight: 118–128 kg (260–282 lb)
  • Arm Size: 51 cm (20 in)
  • Leg Size: 79 cm (31 in)
  • Waist Size: 88 cm (35 in)
  • Calf Size: 52 cm (20 in)
  • Chest size: 142 cm (56 in)

Bodybuilding titles

  • 1985 World Games 7th Heavyweights
  • 1986 British Championships, 1st Heavyweight
  • 1988 British Championships, 1st Heavyweight and overall
  • 1990 Night of Champions 2nd
  • 1991 Night of Champions, 1st
  • 1991 Mr. Olympia, 2nd
  • 1991 English Grand Prix, 1st
  • 1992 Mr. Olympia, 1st
  • 1992 English Grand Prix, 1st
  • 1993 Mr. Olympia, 1st
  • 1994 Mr. Olympia, 1st
  • 1994 Spanish Grand Prix, 1st
  • 1994 German Grand Prix, 1st
  • 1994 English Grand Prix, 1st
  • 1995 Mr. Olympia, 1st
  • 1996 Mr. Olympia, 1st
  • 1996 Spanish Grand Prix, 1st
  • 1996 German Grand Prix, 1st
  • 1996 English Grand Prix, 1st
  • 1997 Mr. Olympia, 1st

See also

References

  1. ^ "Dorian Yates contest history". bodybuildingpro.com. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
  2. ^ "FLEX Who was the Greatest Bodybuilder of All Time?". Retrieved 2 July 2013.
  3. ^ "IFBB Pro Greatest Bodybuilder of the Past 65 Years". Retrieved 2 July 2013.
  4. ^ "Top 15 Bodybuilders of All Time". Retrieved 2 July 2013.
  5. ^ Dorian Yates Speaks, retrieved 2 July 2013
  6. ^ High-Intensity Training the Mike Mentzer Way
  7. ^ IFBB Hall of Fame Dorian Yates, retrieved 2 July 2013
  8. ^ Little, John (2005). Wisdom of Mike Mentzer. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0071452931. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
  9. ^ About CNP, retrieved 2 July 2013
  10. ^ DY Nutrition, retrieved 2 July 2013
  11. ^ http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/temple_gym.htm
  12. ^ http://generationiron.com/is-golds-gym-really-the-mecca-dorian-yates-sounds-off/
  13. ^ http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/drobson199.htm
  14. ^ Gal Ferreira Yates - Whey Maromba
  15. ^ Dorian Yates' Knockout Wife Glauce Ferreira
  16. ^ http://www.musculardevelopment.com/news/bodybuilding-news/1962-dorian-yates-to-be-soon-married.html#.VZjXMfmqqko
  17. ^ http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/yates_davis_next_generation_training.htm
  18. ^ Dorian Yates - Into The Shadow, retrieved 2 July 2013
  19. ^ "Blood and Guts [Paperback]". Amazon.com. Retrieved 17 January 2011.
  20. ^ "Dorian Yates - A Warriors Story". Retrieved 2 July 2013.
  21. ^ Blood and Guts, retrieved 2 July 2013
Preceded by Mr. Olympia
1992–1997 		Succeeded by
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