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Dorian Andrew Mientjez Yates (born 19 April 1962) is an English retired professional bodybuilder.He won the Mr. Olympia title six consecutive times from 1992 to 1997. Known for his high intensity training, top-level conditioning, and his wide, thick back, he is widely considered to be one of the greatest professional bodybuilders in history.
High-intensity training (HIT) is a form of strength training popularized in the 1970s by Arthur Jones, the founder of Nautilus. The training focuses on performing quality weight training repetitions to the point of momentary muscular failure. The training takes into account the number of repetitions, the amount of weight, and the amount of time ...
In the late 1980s, Mentzer returned to training bodybuilders and writing for Iron Man magazine and spent much of the 1990s regaining his stature in the bodybuilding industry. Mentzer had met Dorian Yates in the 1980s and made an impression on Dorian's bodybuilding career. Years later, when Yates won Joe Weider's "Mr. Olympia", he credited Mike ...
One arm dumbbell bent-over-row: [1] This exercise is frequently performed with one knee and one hand on the same side of the body braced on a bench with the back straight and parallel to the ground, and the other hand holding a weight with the arm extended. The weight is lifted towards the hip until elbow bends past 90° and the humerus is in ...
Mr. Olympia is the title awarded to the winner of the professional men's bodybuilding contest in the open division at Joe Weider's Olympia Fitness & Performance Weekend —an international bodybuilding competition that is held annually and is sanctioned by the IFBB Professional League. [3] Joe Weider created the contest to enable the amateur Mr ...
Ronnie Coleman. Ronald Dean Coleman (born May 13, 1964) is an American retired professional bodybuilder, who is widely regarded as the greatest bodybuilder of all-time. [4][5][6][7] Known as " The King ", [8] Coleman shares the all-time record for most Mr. Olympia titles at eight with Lee Haney. [9]
Successor. Dorian Yates. Lee Haney (born November 11, 1959) is an American former professional bodybuilder. [2] Haney shares the all-time record for most Mr. Olympia titles at eight with Ronnie Coleman. [3] The winner of the Mr. Olympia title for eight consecutive years, he is widely regarded as among the greatest professional bodybuilders of ...
Dorian Yates won his sixth consecutive Mr. Olympia title despite tearing his left triceps three weeks before the competition; Flex Wheeler withdrew from the competition after he was car-jacked by two thieves, whom he fought, and scared off, but not before he had taken on some bruises and damages to his arm [3]