Dorian Yates was born in the year 1962 on April 19th in Sutton Coldfield, England. His vital stats are as follows. His height is 5.10 inches; weight is 280 lbs when off season and 260 lbs during competitions. He is also called as the Shadow.
He has the credit of winning the Mr. Olympia title 6 times. That is in the year 1992 till 1997. When Dorian was young, he along with his family went to Birmingham. Here he was imprisoned for some acts. In prison he seemed to be the strongest there. It was in this place that he determined that he should be doing bodybuilding. Dorian is wed to Debbie Chin and has a son called as Lewis.
Some contests that Dorian won are Mr. Birmingham novice in the year 1984, Novice west coast in the year 1985, British Championship in the year 1988, Night of Championship in the year 1991, English Grand Prix in the year 1991, Mr. Olympia, Grand Prix Germany in 1994, Grand Prix Spain in 1994, Grand Prix England in 1994 etc.
Dorian transformed the training of bodybuilding. His type of training is called as HIT training. Under his training sessions there are lots of exercises. He says that if an exercise is done efficiently for a short time it is good enough as an exercise done for a longer period of time. He started his business in bodybuilding in the year 1994. It is called as Heavy Duty Inc.
He bought the Temple Gym and started training in bodybuilding. Today, there are four branches of this gym. He is very popular in Britain. Now he also have another business that of nutritional products.
He claims that it is the best nutritional product that is available for any sport person. It is knows as the Dorian Yates Ultimate Formula range. These products have been tested by scientists and have been approved also.
He has worked very hard on his body. He did not have any equipment when he started off. But by his exercises itself he was able to build his body well. This is the reason his training lessons are different from others.
Even after winning so many contests in bodybuilding he loves this field so much that he set up a training institute and gym for people to build their bodies well. He takes in nutritional food and exercises on regular basis. Now Dorian stays in Walmley. He has two dogs, both are boxers. |
