Dorian Yates interview...
Last Sunday one of the guys I send programs to advised me to watch this interview:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fNqR-Ifj7xQ
The interview is with Dorian Yates a six time Mr Olympia winner.
I grew up far smaller than the guys around me. I was a competitive swimmer, runner and cyclist but up to the age of 18, I was still 54kgs and skinny.
An old school friend, John Melish, found my wallet on the bus and when he dropped it off asked me if I wanted to start training with him.
And that's how my gym journey began.
I started because I wanted to put on a little muscle. Within a year I was up to 11 stone, within 2 years 12 and half stone and within 5 years I'd put on almost 6 stone.
All drug free.
In the beginning I was against taking drugs, it seemed totally counter productive for me to train really hard and then fill my body with crap. Why would I do that?
Then in 1991 I was made redundant. I had a little money and I decided to start training as a bodybuilder. I wanted to compete.
At this time Dorian had been around and was gaining prominence. He'd won a pro card and was about to compete in the Night of Champions. Even the best British Bodybuilders never really seemed to succeed very well in the States and usually faded within a few years.
At his first show he came second. And it became an inspiration for me to train.
Genetically I'm lucky in that I gained muscle fairly easily. But although I can train hard, sustained high intensity sessions take their toll on me. I get tired and feel over trained within 4 to 6 weeks. it's probably because I'd always be training with the most juiced up guys in the gym and running natural.
This interview is interesting because he talks candidly about his steroid use, something I've also been open about.
This is something I feel quite strongly about. Obviously Lance Armstrong has been vilified in the press for taking epo. But all (or the majority) of the other cyclists were also doing it, and he was still the first one up the hill.
Dorian rightly points out that training is way more important than the drugs you take.
If you took loads of gear, sat in a chair, you might get water retention but you wouldn't get bigger or fitter or faster. You have to train for that.
How many athletes out there are on drugs? All of them? Most of them? One or two?
I'd rather they be honest about it. I'd rather the playing field is level and anyone can try stuff out. Surely it's more unfair that some can compete undetected while others have to train naturally.
Which I guess leads on to the drug debate. Should they be made legal?
I actually think a lot of illegal things should be made legal.
Drugs one of them. They can then be regulated and taxed, bringing in revenue rather than costing it.
The sex industry, legalise. Give sex workers a measure of protection.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fNqR-Ifj7xQ
The interview is with Dorian Yates a six time Mr Olympia winner.
I grew up far smaller than the guys around me. I was a competitive swimmer, runner and cyclist but up to the age of 18, I was still 54kgs and skinny.
An old school friend, John Melish, found my wallet on the bus and when he dropped it off asked me if I wanted to start training with him.
And that's how my gym journey began.
I started because I wanted to put on a little muscle. Within a year I was up to 11 stone, within 2 years 12 and half stone and within 5 years I'd put on almost 6 stone.
All drug free.
In the beginning I was against taking drugs, it seemed totally counter productive for me to train really hard and then fill my body with crap. Why would I do that?
Then in 1991 I was made redundant. I had a little money and I decided to start training as a bodybuilder. I wanted to compete.
At this time Dorian had been around and was gaining prominence. He'd won a pro card and was about to compete in the Night of Champions. Even the best British Bodybuilders never really seemed to succeed very well in the States and usually faded within a few years.
At his first show he came second. And it became an inspiration for me to train.
Genetically I'm lucky in that I gained muscle fairly easily. But although I can train hard, sustained high intensity sessions take their toll on me. I get tired and feel over trained within 4 to 6 weeks. it's probably because I'd always be training with the most juiced up guys in the gym and running natural.
This interview is interesting because he talks candidly about his steroid use, something I've also been open about.
This is something I feel quite strongly about. Obviously Lance Armstrong has been vilified in the press for taking epo. But all (or the majority) of the other cyclists were also doing it, and he was still the first one up the hill.
Dorian rightly points out that training is way more important than the drugs you take.
If you took loads of gear, sat in a chair, you might get water retention but you wouldn't get bigger or fitter or faster. You have to train for that.
How many athletes out there are on drugs? All of them? Most of them? One or two?
I'd rather they be honest about it. I'd rather the playing field is level and anyone can try stuff out. Surely it's more unfair that some can compete undetected while others have to train naturally.
Which I guess leads on to the drug debate. Should they be made legal?
I actually think a lot of illegal things should be made legal.
Drugs one of them. They can then be regulated and taxed, bringing in revenue rather than costing it.
The sex industry, legalise. Give sex workers a measure of protection.
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