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  1. “Yeah, there's various places. Instagram is the Dorian Yates, Facebook, we've got DY Nutrition, DY Nutrition website and DYHIT website. So if you search Dorian's nutrition, Dorian Sci-intensity training, various ways you can get in touch with me.”

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  2. “Do it back again. People want me back again and they want to ask more stuff. Let me know where it is, and we'll get chatting.”

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  3. “We're all part of one thing, man. We're all connected. Just like cells in a human body, they're all separate cells, but they make up the body. So they're part of one thing, right”

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  4. “We can go into quantum physics and stuff on this. But I mean what quantum physicists have discovered is that the reality we live in is not what we think it is. And it's made of computer code and it's kind of our thoughts interact with this code. So therefore your thoughts can help create your reality. You know, you're on the Truman show, man. What do you want it to be? What do you want to do? What do you want to play in this movie? Create that. That story with your mind, you know, and take steps to make it happen and it can happen. So that's what I mean by it being a movie or a video game or something like that, you know?”

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  5. “You've got to live your life the way that you think you should live at that time and not be controlled. And we all are controlled all the time from the day we're born. We're controlled by our parents' opinion, by the school's opinion, by the government's opinion, by the media's opinion, and so on. And I want to be free of that. Basically, The greater I suspect I'm going to do what I need to do taking care not to hurt anyone else and that's it. I don't really give a fuck what anyone else thinks about that”

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  6. “Yeah, I think I was talking to myself at first, you know, because Know there's still that thing, you missed the Olympia, right? Six times Mr. Olympia, a legend in the sport. So I guess you feel like you have to maintain some kind of image or whatever it is, you know. And I thought, Am I doing this now? Am I trying to maintain some kind of training, maintaining this level of physique for myself? Or am I doing it for other people or other outside forces? So, I think it was a question for myself at first, are you going to live your life or make decisions or in any way be controlled by the opinions of other people or what you perceive to be the other thinners of other people, which might not even be their opinion anyway? In any case, in the end.”

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  7. “The one to start with would probably be handbook of the navigator or meditation into eternity. That'd probably be the best one. Either of those two. The meditation book is more teach you. And Eric Peppin is very much like Arthur Jones or, you know, Bruce Lee, I call him Bruce Lee of Spirituality because it's kind of like spirituality slash science. And now science and spirituality now pretty much coming together to be the same thing, you know, quantum physics and stuff like that. So I found his stuff very... Logical, you know, so anyway, people are interested in spiritual society life, I recommend go and read some of this stuff.”

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  8. “Well, I'm reading a lot of stuff at the moment. I've read quite a lot of books from one guy. On a spiritual level, which has helped me. So I'll just say his name, his name is Eric Peppen. That's P-E-P-I-N. If you guys want to check him out, I think he's a great spiritual teacher and techniques and meditation and things like that I find interesting at the moment”

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  9. “I love to read. I mean, I always love to read, and I think that was a huge advantage for me when I did bodybuild. I just consume books on training and nutrition and kind of worked it all out for myself. And that was half of the fun of it, you know. Now guys have got nutritionists and trainers and managers, and God knows what else. For me, the whole bodybuilding was an individual pursuit, an individual test of character and everything. It wasn't a team sport, you know?”

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  10. “Know, I couldn't imagine living that lifestyle that I was living as a professional bodybuilder now. It's just be way too restrictive now. I couldn't do it, you know. So, yeah, it took me some time to find a balance. But the benefits are I feel much more free person now. You know, I don't have to eat six times a day. I don't have to be at the gym at this time or I maintain some discipline on, you know, because that's my nature, but then I've had to learn to sometimes not have discipline to get balanced.”

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  11. “I think a lot of people kind of, you know, and a lot of reading and stuff I did, you kind of got to figure it out for yourself. And at one point, I say, hey, I've been doing this thing for 12, 15 years and I haven't been able to do this and do that. So let me, you know, go out and party and be crazy and go to nightclubs and let me travel and go here and go on safari and things I couldn't do before. So I started to realize instead of like looking at what you lost. At all”

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  12. “Even now, I just love to train. I'm not really doing weight training as I used to now, but whether I'm riding my bike or swimming or doing yoga or functional training, whatever it is, I really love to exercise. And I think that helped me get through that period and it took quite a few years before I started balancing out and maybe now it's 20 years since I was competing. And I think I feel like I'm in a really good place now, but that's a lot of time, man, 20 years.”

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  13. “I realized there were problems in my marriage that maybe I hadn't really looked at because you're just in this tunnel and keep going and keep going. So all these kind of things, you may be swept under the carpet, so to speak, they all start popping out. I had been retired from this thing that I was doing, which is can be quite traumatic for people retiring from their profession in any case. My marriage was breaking up, somebody very close to me passed away. So all these things is like, you know, perfect storm of stress all at the same time for me to deal with. The one thing that kind of got me through it was going to the gym, although I didn't have that goal of training for a Mr. Olympia, just to go to the gym and train was like a form of meditation for me where I would forget about the outside world and problems and so on.”

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  14. “The darkest period would probably be kind of a couple of years, the first couple of years after I retired. I don't even know what was going on. I was waking up at night. I couldn't sleep. I was feeling nervous. And I was diagnosed with clinical depression. You know, I'd just been forced, retired from this thing. I've been doing for so long. And a lot of things kind of came to the surface that maybe because you've got such tunnel vision while you're doing it.”

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  15. “So it's more of a you kind of cycle the training, you train hard for five or six weeks and then you back down a little bit, you train lighter and then you go up again. So you're looking for small gains over the course of a year at that point. So you're not getting the feedback you used to get where, you know, go in the gym and wow, look at the progress I made since last month or something. It's more or less like maintaining it and trying to improve on certain areas and things like that.”

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  16. “Well, you know, when you get to the level of top compressive level, Mr. Olympia and so on, The more developed you get and the higher up you get, the actual changes and the gains are very small. If you put three or four pounds of muscle on over a year when you're at a professional level, it would be considered a pretty good gain. So things really do slow down. And you're not going to get the kind of progress you got when you first started out.”

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  17. “I don't recommend them to anybody. I don't tell people what they should do. I just kind of be frank about my experiences and leave it to other people. But to be honest, if I was not a competitive bodybuilder, I don't see the point in using steroids and perhaps open yourself up to potential health risks, which are there over the long period. And then you have the other subject of using it therapeutically for older guys that the testosterone level is declining. And this causes age-related illnesses and diseases, which can be stemmed by putting your testosterone back to normal hormone replacement, so to speak, or recovering from surgery and other applications. So, you know. They have uses outside of sports.”

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  18. “We got a couple of things in England, at least when I was a kid. They used to call sports. I don't know why they're called sports, but you've got one called Darts The dots in the board, right? And the other one, Snooker, which is a bit like Paul. You know, even these guys are using beta blockers and drinking beer to help calm their nerves and enhance their game. If it's competitive, people are going to do whatever they can to get the edge.”

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  19. “More frequently. So it's all about their recovery, whether you're using it or not, you have to be aware of recovery. So it's going to enhance your ability to recover from that stress and you're going to be able to go further than if you're going to use it. That's very basically how they work.”

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  20. “But it gets the point across. If I was to take a piece of sandpaper and rub it across the palm of my hand until it's kind of bleeding a bit and damaged, if I was to leave that for a few days, it would heal up and the skin would be marginally stronger and thicker than it was before because it wants to protect itself from that stress. And that's basically what happens with muscle growth. So let's say we take that situation again. I get the sandpaper, rub it across the palm of my hands. It's all red and bloody. And, you know, I leave it for a day or two. It's not quite healed yet. It's still a bit red. And I go and do it again. We're not getting anywhere, right? We just got bloody hands. So it's the same thing with training in the gym. You've got a fly stress and then you've got to recover. If you're using steroids, you will be able to recover more quickly and train.”

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  21. “So, if you're not using anabolics, you're not going to be able to train, like a lot of the guys you read about in the magazines that might be training five or six days a week and two hours a day and it's not something I recommend, but some guys do some professionals do train that much. If you try to do that without enhancing your hormone level, you know, you're going to get overtrained very quickly and you're not going to get the results you're looking for. So, I mean, whether you're using anabolics or not, the process is this. You go in the gym and you put stress on the muscles and then they have to recover. If after they've recovered there was sufficient stress, then they overcompensate. So you need to allow enough time for that to happen. So I use this analogy at a seminar sometimes very, very simple.”

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  22. “The thing with anabolics, and I mean, how they work is they enhance your body's ability to recover from the stress. At some point, your body's not going to be able to recover from the amount of stress you're putting on it. And then you're going to reach a plateau. So athletes used mainly anabolics. They're always which are derivatives of testosterone, male hormone, and also to some degree growth hormone. To recover and repair from the workouts. So if somebody is using enhancement or anabolic serial, let's just call it enhancement for argument's sake, if someone's using enhancement, they're going to be able to recover more efficiently than somebody that's not, and they're going to be able to... Going to take things to a higher plateau before again they plateau.”

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  23. “Absolutely. You know, my wife is. World champion figure champion and Brazilian champion, South American champion. I live with somebody that trains as well”

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  24. “Anyway, room for one lady to get changed in there, and we had a big black and white of Mallorin Monroe doing bench press with dumbbells.”

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  25. “Absolutely. We had a big black and white poster of Marilyn Monroe in the. Ladies changing room at Temple Jim down in the dungeon. We say to the ladies changing room it's just like a little cupboard in the wall really.”

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  26. “That's what you're looking for, and that's why you call toned and all these kind of nonsense terms. But that's what it is. So if a lady wants to change her body, she's got to do weight training. She's got to do resistance training. And she's got to be conscious about her diet. And that's it. Same as a guy. Is it more difficult for a woman to build muscle and lose body fat? Yes, probably generally speaking, yes, but it's the same process.”

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  27. “You're not going to build muscles by mistake. It takes a lot of work to build muscles. But I know where the lady is coming from. Maybe they start lifting and first few weeks of jeans get a bit tighter or something like that because you're starting to build muscle. But as long as you control your diet, you will be losing the body fat at the same time. So you'll get this look that you're looking for, it's called less body fat and more muscle”

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  28. “Decrease the body fat. So the ratio of muscle to fat is higher and then you're going to look leaner and you're going to have that look that you call toned. But there's no magic exercise that can do it for you, no magic diet. It's consistent weight training in the gym and good diet. And there's not that much of a difference in a woman's program to a man's program. It's just if I'm dealing with a client, I just deal with that client on an individual basis, whether a man or a woman, it doesn't matter to me. I just, you know, I figure everything out depending on the individual.”

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  29. “I'll tell you what it means, actually, what a lady. Means when she says toning. She means that she's going to look leaner and tighter, right? So her tone is going to look, her muscular tone is going to look better. Although it's a nonsense word, I know where you're coming from. And how do you get that look? Easily. Well, not easily, but how do you get it is you build your muscle?”

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  30. “The only way. I mean, you can't change your bone structure. So, what makes your shape apart from your bone structure is your muscles and body fat. So you need high intensity training, rep range, eight to 12 reps in a set, going to failure. And the rest is diet, you know, to make sure you're getting sufficient protein and eating regular small meals and keeping a control on your calories so it's not too much, but it's enough. So there's a lot involved, but it's, you know, I don't see anything different from a lady train to a guy training. They got the same muscles in the same places and they respond to stress in the same way.”

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  31. “It's exactly the same that would build big muscles on a male. Absolutely no difference in my opinion. There's a lot of hype and a lot of marketing around women's training. If women want to... Change their appearance, shall we say, change their appearance. There's only a couple of ways you can do that. You can build muscle And or you can lose fat.”

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  32. “And who knows? I was never the guy that was going to be working for somebody else or doing nine to five that was never going to happen.”

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  33. “I don't have a plan B, really. I knew that bodybuilding was going to do something good for me. And in a very short time, I won the British Championships and got a financial backer because of that because I didn't have two pennies to rub together. I didn't have a car. I didn't have anything. Somebody backed me and financed me with the gym because I was British champion. So very quickly, I was already earning a living now from this thing that I love doing. I got my own gym with doing my own equipment that I chose and everything and I'm making a nice living. That was already happening. I think the question was whether I would be a successful professional bodybuilder or not if I wasn't, then I probably would open some more gyms.”

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  34. “I was kind of conscious of that the last couple of years, and I was trying not to do it, but still a tendency to overdo it. And, you know, I had good friends. When I won in Mr. Olympia in 93, and it was probably the most devastating win in the history of the contest that it was just outright first place, and it was a physique size and condition. That had never been seen before. So everyone was saying to me then, well, look, you know, you've got to stop that crazy, heavy training you're doing because there's risk involved with that. You can't do that forever. And maybe just kind of cruise now and, you know, hold your position and earn your money. And that probably would be wise advice, but it wasn't exciting for me. I still wanted to try to push the envelope to see how far we could go.”

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  35. “From a different perspective now, because I'm not quite so involved. The best physiques, which I present were probably like two or three weeks before a contest. So I always overdid a little bit, you know. Dorian Yates would never underdo anything Always a tendency to overdo, and that's the thing that needed to be controlled a little bit, perhaps. So those two things. The only things that I would have changed. But would I change them? Because those events led me to where I am now. So if we went back in time and stopped me from getting injured, this whole story would be different. Maybe I would have competed longer and maybe that wouldn't be good. Who knows? So I don't live with any regrets, you know? So, in fact, I probably wouldn't change it.”

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  36. “I've had this question before, so it's something I've pondered on, you know. Right, the only thing that I think would be, well, two things that would be beneficial to me if I could go back and change them. Would be not training with superintensity to the absolute maximum the last two months before a contest where your calorie intake and so on is restricted and you do more cardio and you may be dehydrated and avoid those injuries. That would be great. The other thing is, I don't believe I ever really presented the best physique I could on stage because I generally looked better in my opinion and I can confirm this now by looking at photos.”

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  37. “But yeah, that's exactly what it was. It was like Warrior 2, I think. And my legs just buckled. I couldn't stand up. I fell on the floor. And they go to a teacher, looked at me and lifted her eyebrows up and kind of went, ah, Dorian That's so easy, is it? You know, it's got easier”

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  38. “You just stand there and do this, and some of the stuff I'm not going to be able to do because I'm physically too big, but I should be all right. And I didn't realize how difficult some of the poses are and how long you hold them. And, you know, your body's not used to that. It's not accustomed to that. If you're used to just powerful, you know, powerful stuff, it's a different kind. So I was holding a pose and like a lunging pose and my legs just gave away and I fell on the floor, you know.”

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  39. “I do, yeah. I have a funny story. So I got this thing I wanted to do yoga, but I didn't want to just go to a yoga class or I said, you know what? If I concentrate on this, if I think about it enough, the person will come along kind of thing. So, you know, I put it out there and want a yoga teacher on it and ask around and through a friend of mine, he said, yeah, I know somebody and it's just good and think you'll like her. So me and Gal, we went along and the first class with this lady we did. And I thought this yoga stuff looks like a piece of cake, right?”

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  40. “So I still love to challenge myself. I'm going to do it. I'm going to still go pretty hard. And I'm very interested now in just keeping cardiovascular fitness, mobility, flexibility, all the things that are relevant to me as I'm getting older, you know, this vehicle that we have that we live in, this machine, the body is the only thing you've got to function in this reality. So if it's not working very well, you're not going to have such a fun time, you know? So really that's, you know, my training is all geared to that now, to keep it efficient, same as the diet. And I honestly feel great, tremendous 55 next month, and I feel great. I felt better than when I was 35.”

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  41. “So, yeah, I was led to do the yoga and I enjoy the physical side of it, the mobility, the stretching, and also the kind of spiritual side as well. And I do meditation as well as the yoga. But I still like to push physically. I do cycling over here in Spain. I've got some good steep hills, so I do cycling up the hills. People can hear me shouting and screaming at myself going up the hills up there. I still like to push myself. I do some functional training in the gym with ropes and pushing sleds and stuff like that.”

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  42. “The physical side, a lot more mobility. I didn't realize because I always did some stretching when I was training, so quads and hamstrings and basic stretches, I was pretty good on, especially for a bodybuilder, I guess. But a lot of the mobility, twisting, things like that was quite limited. I remember I was talking to a chiropractor friend of mine and it was like, you know, people didn't used to get MAC problems hundreds and hundreds of years ago because they used to sit so much around a campfire in that squat position. And they sit like that for hours And if you can sit like that and you're comfortable, you probably won't have any back problems. I thought that's interesting. Let me sit in a squat. And it was kind of uncomfortable and tight and didn't feel right, you know?”

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  43. “Yeah, I think it's a case of constantly adjusting and I don't know at some point I felt the same things. I need some more variety. So I started doing some different things and I was looking at my buddy, you know, I got quite a few injuries, I got the bicep, the tricep, and the supraspinatus torn on the left side. Me pursuing what I was doing before, you know, trying to push the waste in the gym was starting to be kind of in some ways could be detrimental and lead to more injuries. So I don't know. I kind of had a message internally that I need to do something different. And I wasn't sure if it was yoga or taichi or something along those lines. But I started doing yoga and I found it amazing for”

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  44. “It takes time, you know, it takes time because you've been doing this one thing for so long and it's kind of like that's all you know so it takes some time to readjust and rebalance and To the realization of like, okay, that's over, but you can do anything you want, you know, anything you want and you have more time now, you have more freedom to pursue things and interests, and that wouldn't be possible before because I was on such a strict regime. So in the end, I came to appreciate that. But it did definitely take time.”

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  45. “That was six weeks before the contest in 1994 and again, you know, six weeks out, maybe a little dehydrated, tired, body fat slow, and I was training too heavy. For that phase of my training, I was doing 440 pounds bent over rose Yeah, the bicep popped. So, I wasn't indestructible.”

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  46. “I think what I struggled with, and I think this is very common with athletes that have had tunnel vision, is like Who are you, you know? Who are you now that that goal Not there, or it's been taken away, or however you want to put it. With me, it was injury All throughout my career, I was very controlled. I controlled everything. And when I computed and all this kind of stuff. And this I didn't have control of because it was like you're injured and you can't compete anymore. And that's it. So I didn't have control over that.”

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  47. “I mean, who knows deep psychological reasons perhaps. Who knows? I'm sure that. Because I didn't have an easy childhood and particularly close and loving family and all these kind of things that other people might have. Think if I had a really comfortable upbringing like that, I probably wouldn't be the driven person I was, you know. So I'm sure there's something there in that in wanting to achieve or wanting to be recognized or something. But in any case, in some ways it felt like Already knew that I was going to do this, or I had to do this. I don't know if that's easy to understand, but it's almost like I knew I was going to do this.”

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  48. “In other words, if you enjoy it, I like training, so I'm going to take it. Maybe it would have been good sometimes a couple of weeks off, probably give my joints a rest and so on. But I was a man with a mission and, you know, it's hard to control that fire sometimes.”

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  49. “Well, it's just really confirming You're going to do, and you know, why are you doing it? You've got to have motivation, man. You're not going to put yourself through pain and discomfort unless there's some kind of motivation there. So what's your motivation for doing this and how bad you want it? And for me, it was like life or death, really. You know, that's how it felt anyway. Life or death, I got to do this. I got to change my life. And this is what I got to do. And this is the road I'm going to take. And nothing's going to stop me. But, you know, that was my personal motivation. Everyone's got to find their own. But you're not even going to push as hard as you're motivated, basically.”

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  50. “So, this is what I did last week. These are all the exercises, all the set sees, all the reps. Okay, so this is what I want to do today. I want to £250 for six reps last week. I want to do seven or eight this week. So I was seven or eight on that bench press. And when I get down on that bench press, the way it's going to feel like this, and I'm going to bring it down, it's going to feel like this, and I'm going to be wearing this shirt. It's like literally used to visualize the whole workout before I even went to the gym. So I know exactly what I was doing in what order and everything. And that was just dialed in. So I wouldn't even talk to anybody when I went to the gym. Do my workout, so you've got to have a plan. If you just wander in the gym and think, oh, what shall I do today? You're not going to get anywhere.”

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