Dorian Yates: The Original Mass Monster

You in the ball belly?

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Let's go to war.

No mercy.

A good wage for a small woman

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Hi, I am Dorian Yates four times Mr. Olympia, and this is Blood and Guts.

The video I'm gonna take you in my gym and show you how I've trained

to be the world's number one.

I hope you're ready.

'cause it's gonna be rough.

Like I said, it's blood and guts.

In 13 years of bodybuilding, Dorian Yates has gained 70 pounds of muscle

and made the journey from the back streets of Birmingham, England

to Bodybuilding's Hall of Fame.

Good, let's go.

It's hitting you.

Shirt.

Hello?

1, 2, 3. My name's Dorian.

Okay.

I wanna start off by asking you, um, do you think the title of Mr.

Olympia is as prestigious today as it was when you were competing?

No.

You want me to expand on that?

It seems like you are slightly bitter about the bodybuilding industry today.

Is that true?

And is that, is that whose take is that?

Whose take is that?

It is not the bodybuilding industry that I was involved in, so maybe

sometimes I'm making a comparison, but it's not being bitter.

I'm just like, this is how it was in our day, and I miss that.

I've evolved and I'm no longer very interested in bodybuilding as

I used to be used to be my life.

I had every single magazine I wrote every workout down.

That was my life, and it's not my life now.

So that maybe that's res reflected in when I talk about it.

It's not no longer my passion or my interest.

That's, I'm not bitter about it at all.

Mr. Vlad.

This guy, come on.

I really came from the dirt.

I really got it from the, I really put

all guts.

What I don't give.

From to slump, slim to none is the salary.

Well, for some crumbs, someone to make you a casualty.

It's hard to dream.

When the nightmares, reality, watching my family and friends

become fatalities, I lost my father.

Then I lost myself, lost my freedom, and found a purpose than I freed myself.

So it's safe to say I climbed up out of the grave for most than never,

ever, ever see free light day.

So if you wonder why act this way, you soft focus Because I'm

right around the corner from hell.

If you haven't noticed, I really came to win win.

Gotta pretend there can only be one and we ain't come to make friends.

You got options.

Well, my only options is I have nothing so for it all.

I give it all until I have something.

I ain't here for your accolades.

I ain't here for your fame, your praise.

I really came from the dirt.

I really came from the dirt.

I really got it from the from the, I really put, I really put,

man, I don't give a fuck.

Ain't nothing pretty.

Got it gritty over here.

This is Warrior City.

No room for pity over here.

You don't know my struggles.

You don't know my pain.

Just know it's nothing to lose and everything to gain.

There's no days off.

See, I can sleep when I die.

They can wind and die and not just hustle and grind.

I'm deep down in the trenches, gripping, lifting the sign rep, set,

set, rep 'em all in every time I told you, giving my all the giving.

Nothing at all.

And that means Remmy, king of remley, nothing at all.

And that means full throttle, right foot on the gas with my left on they

neck will show respect when I pass.

And no, um, on your ass.

Rain hell sleeve the snow.

No stop signs of red lights.

I just all go the time.

Ashan and rookies, I'm just all pro.

I'm open time every time.

You know, I from the, I really got it from the, I really got it from the road.

I.

It is almost surreal, like a little bit unreal that I'm going back because

it's so long ago since where I went back where I was brought up as a kid.

It does seem like almost like a separate lifetime, but I feel

immense pride in what I was able to.

Anyway, you're supposed to be in about 20 minutes ago.

Blew me know later ever.

Don't be doing you old bastard.

Nice to see you.

Alright, show us in there mate.

Never mind Matt.

Look at that guy then that, now that's a face on his mum of good love.

Come on mate.

My name is Dean Mark Hiles.

I've run Dino's Jim, but basically I po iron and I've

pumped time for nearly 50 years.

Look at this baby.

Hey, look at that.

Oh, NLU girl classic piece.

So the untrained, oh, this might look hideous.

This is probably when the lights go on at an night club and the, and

you look at the girl, you just back to dances too, think, oh my God.

But when you touch her, she's beautiful.

And that's what this thing is.

Absolutely beautiful.

I dunno which kind of women you've been talking to, Dino, but get out.

We used to shirt up, whoops.

In the uk the bodybuilder community back in the eighties was very, very small.

Very, very small.

So you get to hear whispering.

So when you were training in the gym, you'd hear this and you'd hear that.

But then this one day in particular, I kept hearing this same story.

Who's this big mother who's training down at the Weeder gym in Birmingham?

So the stories got bigger and badder about this guy.

So anyway, so we forgot about him for a while, and then I worked at a gym

called Muscle Machine, and the owner, Ron Davis was saying, we gotta get this guy.

It's a muscle machine somehow.

And he got him over.

So we was all looking out the window and he comes, and I've never seen

nothing like it, even to this day.

You know, my hair's standing up on my arm now.

It was hard.

It was grainy.

It was humongous in every department.

It was like just a cave caveman.

There was no finesse to his physique.

He was a beast.

And I thought, my God, this is from our hometown.

He created the, the, the heavy duty image of a bodybuilder, which all of the

bodybuilders tried to emulate the density, the size, the thickness, the turned

bodybuilding into an narcissistic bit bit vein sport into a barbarian, brutal sport.

Let's get nasty eight.

Yeah,

right to that you'd get this so like the Greek statue looking like Frank Zane

and, and then Doen comes along and he just turns it into a barbarian sport.

Let's do what wherever you are, a little boy will see.

I want to be like that.

I want to look, I want to scare when I walk into a room.

And that's what he created.

The guys in the nineties, all of 'em, you know, Varonis,

Plex, Sean, they all were sharp.

You know, they all had that condition.

He knew they had better genetics.

That's why he.

Never missed a rep, never missed a meal.

He knew he had to do it.

He couldn't slip.

So he had to get that condition and that proportion and that hardness,

you know, that was his signature.

Nobody had ever seen anything like it.

Oh, if Dorian competed in this era, that would be a cakewalk.

That would cakewalk, no one's duplicated.

That type of intensity, that, that density, that look, that, that uh,

dedication towards going for a title.

He set a standard.

I mean, he pushed the bodies to the next level.

He was the next level guy.

Blood and guts training focused on one goal to win and not caring about any glitz

and glamor or anything that went with it.

Just came and collected his trophy and went home.

He came from an area that was a bit rough and he didn't really

go for the glamorous life.

He went for the working life.

You know, he did the Olympia, he did the hard work, he got the trophies.

He's idolized in England 'cause he put us on the map.

But he's like the working class hero to bodybuilders.

You guys can see what he's achieved, but nobody really knows the person.

Still nobody knows that person.

I think Dorian's still trying to find himself.

My mom was a equestrian, she was a riding teacher and we had a few

horses on the little small holding, people call it a farm, but it wasn't

really a farm 'cause we didn't have like cows and things like that.

We had a few fields.

We had um, I think like three horses.

So to go to my sister's, she lives quite nearby and she is carried on.

My mom's thing, she's working with horses and competing and teaching with horses.

So little bit of parallel with what I did.

A hug there ages.

I know.

It's been too long, isn't it?

It has.

So Lisa or Garland now?

Um, Darrian sister.

I'm very competitive and what I do, you compete against yourself as

well as competing against others.

So you have to say, that was really good for us.

We couldn't do any better.

So I'm happy and to keep looking at the big picture 'cause it's

always progressing forwards.