Dorian Yates
Everyone gets the impression that bodybuilders are narcissistic, and we look at ourselves in mirrors all the time. But that side of the sport doesn't appeal to me.
I don't really care what other people think.
You are hungry all the time for the last two months before a competition. Every survival thing on your body is telling you that you must eat.
I remember when I was a kid rugby players were some big guys that drunk a lot of beer but now they have proper training programs and diets and all that. And the pioneers of all that is bodybuilding.
If your body produces more blood glucose than the muscle needs, it gets converted into fat. So always choose low-GI carbs like green vegetables and low-GI rice like basmati.
Splitting your meals up into smaller, more frequent portions will enable food absorption and utilization of nutrients.
Try to eat more fat but choose polyunsaturated fatty acids as they help the body to burn fat so that's salmon, halibut, sardines, albacore, trout, herring, walnut and flaxseed oil.
The failure rate for gym owners and personal trainers is very high because it is very difficult for them to work on their business when they are busy working in their business.
Ever since I retired from competitive bodybuilding, one of my dreams has been to offer an affordable way for independent gym owners to make a comfortable income and empower them to help the sick and diseased at the same time.
Lots of people who do bodybuilding want to walk around in tank top and shorts, because they want to show people what they've got - and there's nothing wrong with that. But I didn't want to do that because I didn't care what people thought.
Each workout is like a brick in a building, and every time you go in there and do a half-ass workout, you're not laying a brick down. Somebody else is.Collection: Motivational
If I listened to my instincts, I'd be down at the pub chasing women, not under a 400 pound bar squattingCollection: Bars
If those guys with better genes trained as hard and intense as me, I wouldn`t stand a chance!Collection: Guy
At the end of the day it's not a weight contest, it's a visual contest. And it doesn't matter what you say you weigh, if you don't look that big then you don't look that big.Collection: Workout
The single biggest mistake that most beginners make is putting 100% of their effort into the positive (concentric) part of the rep, while paying no attention to the negative (eccentric) segmentCollection: Strength
One set at extreme intensity does the muscle-building job. It must be stressed that the one final, all-out set I do takes me to the very limit of my capabilities. If you feel you can attempt a second set, then you couldn’t have been pulling out all the stops during the first set. It's not pretty, but it works.Collection: Jobs
For me winning isn`t surprising at allCollection: Winning
All else being equal, the guy with the best genetics will have the best physique. But rarely are all things equal.Collection: Bodybuilding
Some people's joints articulate in a manner that allows them to benefit greatly from squats; others may not benefit at all. If you're not too tall and have short limbs, it may be the best exercise for you, but if you're tall with long legs, it might be both ineffective and dangerous.I was stubbornly faithful to squats for years until I finally realized they were not well-suited for my body structure. After I switched tomore muscle-intensive movements, my gains in leg size were astounding.Collection: Exercise
That's a good weight...for a small womanCollection: Motivational
Shoulder width is an absolute requirement for displaying the V taper that will make or break your physique.Collection: Bodybuilding
The path to added muscle is consuming more calories than the amount needed to keep your current bodyweight unchanged.Collection: Bodybuilding
During weight cutting your mind plays tricks on you.Collection: Cutting
Complex carbohydrates are always best, except, again, after a workout where you could take simple (sugar) carbohydrates to get an insulin spike. But at other times doing this is not very beneficial because insulin is a storage hormone and it's going to shunt everything into the muscle.Collection: Workout
I also think you have less separation if you are fuller. If you go to the gym and pump your arms up they are bigger because of the blood volume, the fullness. But the separation is not so defined.Collection: Thinking
Back in the 80s we were very cautious about steroids.Collection: Steroid
Steroids are used in all sports.Collection: Sports
I started training bodybuilding in 1983.Collection: Bodybuilding