Dorian Yates routine

[Skallagrimson]

Anyone tried his 1 set 1-2 reps, 3.5 hours (total gym time per week) routine. I've always been interested to know if anyone else has gotten any results from this. It seems so rediculous that it has to work.

 

[OMEGA]

his early routines were great but later in the game the ones advertised in Flex seemed a bit theoretical and unpractical

 

[Deleted member 33117]

Beware of the routines of pro bodybuilders, especially if it is posted in a magazine. Most of them are genetic freaks, and the amount of drugs they use (I met a pro who admitted to me that he was on a gram of test a day, plus tons of other stuff with it) give them a huge amount of leeway on poor training methods.

 

[H_T_]

with that logic, less = more, would none = most? the only way i see that working is if the rep lasted 30 seconds +. but that's not practical, unless it was hydrolics. but still....

 

[Skallagrimson]

Those are all my thoughts, but the way I understand it is he would do a couple of warm up sets from 10-20 reps but wouldn't consider those sets, then basically max out with good form. Theoretically it seems like it would allow you to really dig into your deep muscle fibers in a way that pyramiding would not. I know that sometimes I'm more sore from just a quick max, then doing a full 5-6 set exercise. What were those earlier workouts someone mentioned like?

 

[OMEGA]

if you read his early routines ( if you can find them) they were a combo of high intensity and Frequency.........

 

[H_T_]

he snuck up on everyone when he won NOTC. not much was said about him before...

 

[Deleted member 33117]

he snuck up on everyone when he won NOTC. not much was said about him before...

He was also, if I read right years ago, the first pro bodybuilder to really use insulin seriously, so put on a huge amount of size in one year and steped in and started dominating out of nowhere.

 

[hanibal]

he was the first true 300+lb freak, i seen him guest pose at NOC in about 93, these hot bitches and a couple dudes carried him out on a king's chair...u could see his quads from the back and his back looked like a fuckin turtle shell...whatever he did worked for him, not us, besides i believe he was on as much/if not more than pros use today. he went from being a freak to a huuuuge, grainy, veiny, monster over a course of a year, u know when they had the black n white pics in flex....

 

[Skallagrimson]

I just saw something about his earlier routines. It looks like his book 'A Warrior's Story' goes into detail about it, and that each body part was trained 3 times in 2 weeks.