![]() With proper motivation, the body can do amazing things: I see this at the gym when some young guy loads extra weight on the bar when a hot girl is in the area or when I'm training with John Meadows and find an extra gear. In fact, they're fairly intense with the only distinguishable difference being that you stop short of failure in the one “balls out” set.Ĥ. The warm-up or feeder sets to the working weight aren't just fluff. Sure, it typically includes performing one set to failure or beyond per exercise, but that’s an oversimplification. One set to failure oversimplifies HIT: People often categorize HIT (high intensity training) as basically one set to failure. ![]() Muscle power matters more than momentum, and I wasn't engaging my back and holding the contraction.ģ. ![]() In other words, as the muscle fatigues, I should fail first on the positive portion of a movement before I fail at the static hold in the contracted position or the negative portion of the movement. He said that I should be strongest in the eccentric portion of the movement, second strongest in the static hold, and third strongest in the concentric. Under his watchful eye, I learned that I spent more time trying to move weight than work muscle. I didn’t know crap about back training: For years, my back was a weak area, which obviously wasn't the case for Dorian at all. Warm-up movements included multiple sets of alternating body weight lunge stretches, lying internal and external hip rotation, and bending at the waist and walking your hands out until you’ve reached a plank position.Ģ. He favored more active movements to warm up your core and loosen up the lower back. Active warm-ups are better than static stretching: Dorian explained that static stretching isn't beneficial in terms of a warm up. The following list, in no particular order, includes eight things that I learned training with Dorian Yates:ġ. Four months later, Christina, two friends who were good with a camera, and I flew to Heathrow International in route to Birmingham to spend a week in the Dungeon. He joined us for lunch, and I planted a seed that I had always dreamed of coming to Birmingham, England, to train at Temple Gym, otherwise known as the Dungeon. Walking back to the table, I noticed some guy talking to Christina. I ran to the restroom while Christina got us a table in the restaurant. Prejudging just wrapped up at the Arnold Classic, and Christina and I returned to the hotel to eat and rest before I had to go back for finals that night. He inspired me to train with a vengeance and step on stage, winning the NPC NW Natural Teenage Division the next year in 1993…the same year that Dorian won the first of six Mr. ![]() ![]() Needless to say, Dorian Yates blew my mind.įrom that day forward, I read everything I could about Dorian. Tonight, the IFBB pro was a guy from England who placed second in the previous year's Mr. I learned that at the end of local NPC contests, an IFBB pro bodybuilder typically did a “guest posing” exhibition. My parents, bored out of their minds, wanted to leave early, but I begged them to stay to the end. This was my first time attending a bodybuilding competition and I was mesmerized. On a Saturday night in April, I ventured out with my parents to the Paramount Theatre in downtown Seattle to watch my uncle Bill compete in the Emerald Cup. The year was 1992 and I was seventeen years old. ![]()
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