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Dorian Yates

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first: 2017-04-21
most recent: 2017-04-21
sittings or episodes: 1
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“There wasn't much time for fun, you know, really. People used to say to me, why don't you smile on stage? Because previous to me, most of the girls would pose on stage and smile and try to look happy. And I just couldn't fake it. I mean, by the time I got to a contest, you're totally exhausted and tired and you're dehydrated and your body fat's low and you've been on a diet for three months. For me it was a competition. It was a war. I was going there to win. So I was not really in a smiling kind of mood. So I think I brought a whole new kind of persona to the sport that wasn't there before, not purposely, but just by being myself, I think, but just being genuine.”
2017-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #235: Dorian Yates on High Intensity Training, Injury Prevention, and Building Maximum Muscle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, that's something I didn't really realize myself, I guess. But I think it was a case of me being so tunnel visioned. In the pursuit of what I was doing, it's almost like Not that I wanted to do it, so I had to do it, you know.”
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“Ah no. Well, the story is my mother moved to Birmingham after my father died to remarry another gentleman and then quite tragically had a heart attack as well within I think it was within two years. So my mom had no reason then to stay in the city I guess so she wanted to move back and she discussed with me whether I'd want to do that or not and I said I didn't want to do that so I just decided to go my own way, you know?”
2017-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #235: Dorian Yates on High Intensity Training, Injury Prevention, and Building Maximum Muscle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Pull ups, push ups, all kind of like in a circuit and you had to go around the circuit three times and do so many reps and you know when you finish sit down so I went around that thing three times and sat Prison officer was like, you know, thought I was making fun or something. It's like, you gotta go, you gotta go around three times. I'm like, I did go around three times. And he didn't believe me, so it made me do it again. So I was stronger than there was a few hundred guys in there. I was stronger than most of them and had, you know, the best physique. And I was good with the weights. And at that point, I think I found something that was, you know, stopped screwing around. There's something here you can be You could do something with, I think, at that point was as far as I went, you know?”
2017-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #235: Dorian Yates on High Intensity Training, Injury Prevention, and Building Maximum Muscle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Idea is to put the young guys that are getting in trouble, put them in there for a short period of time, and it's very kind of military, the discipline, you're marching everywhere. You do a lot of sports and you try to learn some kind of skill or job or something like that while you're in there. In any case, they had weights in there, which I'd done a little bit of previously. saw the magazines and everything and I think I trained for about six months when I was at school. I was doing karate first and then started doing a bit of weight training. So I had an interest in a little background in there. In the facility that had weights in there, and I got, you know, you had to do this. I remember the first, one of the first times we were in there in the sports hall, you know. They give us this circuit training to do, you know, squats.”
2017-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #235: Dorian Yates on High Intensity Training, Injury Prevention, and Building Maximum Muscle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Qualifications from school and nowhere to live really. I was just living at a friend's place and stuff like that. And when I was 18, I got arrested and was really just a stupid thing me and some friends were drunk and we were in the wrong place at the wrong time. But anyway, I got sent to a detention center when I was 18, which is like a youth jail facility, I guess.”
2017-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #235: Dorian Yates on High Intensity Training, Injury Prevention, and Building Maximum Muscle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, well, initially, I guess it was quite idyllic because I was brought up on a little, what we call in England a small holding, so it's kind of like a very small farm. And we had horses there and dogs and chickens and all kind of animals and stuff like that. So that was pretty cool. But everything changed when I was 13 and my father died from a heart attack. Mom was going to get remarried. We moved to Birmingham. Second biggest city in the UK. So I went from a rural kind of a more rural existence to my father dying and moving to the city. When I was 16, I left home. My mum wanted to go live him back in the countryside and so on. And I decided to stay on in the city. So I was 16 years old.”
2017-04-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #235: Dorian Yates on High Intensity Training, Injury Prevention, and Building Maximum Muscle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT