Dorian Yates
| Dorian Yates | |
|---|---|
| — Bodybuilder — | |
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| Personal info | |
| Nickname | The Shadow |
| Born |
19 April 1962 Walmley, West Midlands, England |
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
| Weight | 235–290 lb (110–132 kg) |
| Professional career | |
| Pro-debut | Night of Champions, 1990 |
| Best win | IFBB Mr. Olympia 1992–1997, six consecutive times, |
| Predecessor | Lee Haney |
| Successor | Ronnie Coleman |
| Active | Retired 1997 |
Dorian Andrew Mientjez Yates (born 19 April 1962) is an English professional bodybuilder. He won the Mr. Olympia title six consecutive times from 1992 to 1997 and holds the fourth-highest number of Mr. Olympia awards of all time, ranking behind Ronnie Coleman (8), Lee Haney (8), and Arnold Schwarzenegger (7). He is widely considered one of the top athletes in modern bodybuilding history.
Yates was born in Walmley, West Midlands, and grew up in rural Staffordshire. When he was a teenager, his family moved to Birmingham, West Midlands. During these times, he was sentenced to six months at a youth detention centre. He started working out in 1983.
Yates' professional record consists of 15 major contest wins and two second-place finishes.
Yates' career ended in large part due to chronic acute injuries, including torn biceps and triceps, the latter just three weeks prior to his final contest, the 1997 Mr. Olympia contest, which he won in spite of the injury.
Yates espoused a style of training known as HIT "High Intensity Training," which states that maximum muscle stimulation can be reached through short, high-intensity workout sessions rather than long duration workouts. The training style was originally popularized by Mike Mentzer.
Yates earned the nickname of "The Shadow" for his tendency to unexpectedly appear at major bodybuilding contests and steal the win, having remained out of the public eye for long periods beforehand. He was reported to have turned down several large supplement endorsement contracts and avoided interviews and other television publicity in order to maintain privacy.
In 2017, Dorian Yates announced his DY GYM licensing program to help qualified and ambitious entrepreneurs realize their dreams of becoming successful gym owners. DY GYM gives gym owners full, business training inside the new DY University and the first location is set to open in China, in January of 2017.
In 1987, Yates purchased Temple Gym, located on Temple Street in Birmingham. In 2006, he franchised four additional Temple Gym locations, three of which are in the UK.
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