Dorian Yates

This is a guy who's competitive with himself.

I asked Dorian Yates, who are you competing with? He's always competing with himself.

I said, how did you celebrate when you won? He said, I didn't celebrate.

I was supposed to win.

People have done it for years and years, but it's now actually just putting it into a book where people go, oh, you know, the penny kind of drops each chapter.

So there is a fat loss chapter.

So if you want to look to manipulate your body composition, you for your Ironman, if they're saying, you know, Brian, we need to improve your power to weight ratio, then, you know, bodybuilders, Dorian Yates, you know, Dorian was an absolute expert at manipulating his physiology.

The best.

Okay, so we met and I was on my TED Talk thing because I was about to give one and then when I gave it, it was a big deal for me and people to this day talk about my TED Talk almost first.

Before our feature length films, before my movie with Ido Portal and Dorian Yates, it's like your TED Talk, your TED Talk, your TED Talk.

For me, it was the most important 16 minutes of video I ever filmed and like I've filmed like a thousand hours of video here and published.

So it was important because the format of TED is a beautiful thing where you're not really self-promoting.

That's also

a...

They say success leaves clues, right? This is a Dan Pena quote And so that's that's something I see a lot in the guests that sit in that chair including Dorian Yates six-time.

Mr Olympia I said what happened when you won in 1995? I said, what did you do? Did you go out and party and this and he said he said what are you talking about? I was supposed to win the next day.

But...

You mentioned that concentric phase, and I just thought of when I was down in Marbella at your good friend Nick Mitchell's high performance gym, and I had Dorian Yates putting me through the leg workout.

And Dorian, he reminded me a little bit of of some of the things you're talking about because he was stuck in this basement in Birmingham and he ended up being completely separate from all the guys in Venice Beach and that was intentional to a certain extent and he ended up coming up with his own protocols and some of his high intensity training he'd gotten from Metzger and people like that but he ended up doing a lot of it by his own scientific research and that was one of the early things he said is that concentric stage is something that he always thought was really important I was wondering what you see.

Do you see those elements in Dorian's training? Dorian's training is really good, but it

I said, they're different animals.

I said, not with all disrespect, but you don't operate in the same system.

So what Dorian Yates did, he figured out, okay, I'm this type, and this works for me.

But you look at Schwarzschild as Mr. Olympia too, and his training is diametrically opposite to Dorian.

My guest today is Kenneth Flex Wheeler, the American professional bodybuilder once described by Arnold Schwarzenegger as one of the greatest he ever saw.

You won the Arnold Classic four times and competed in Mr. Olympia throughout the 90s, notoriously coming second to both Dorian Yates in 93 and Ronnie Coleman in 98. who would then go on to hold the title for eight years in a row.

In 99, you were diagnosed with a rare kidney disease and announced your retirement from bodybuilding in 2000.

Last year, you had a comeback and competed in the Mr. Olympia Classic Physique.

So week six is about planning your winning future.

The habits here come from Gary Vaynerchuk of VaynerMedia, as well as Ryan Holiday, best-selling author of six books, including The Obstacle is the Way, and of course, six-time Mr. Olympia, Dorian Yates.

Here, you'll review your goals and progress for the past few weeks.

Then, you'll use that to create your 12-month plan.

Any fitness expert will tell you 90% of getting in shape is diet.

I learned this from Dorian Yates.

He said the main reason he won Mr. Olympia six times wasn't because of his workout routine.

It was because he had better eating habits.

all while turning this hobby, which began in the bedroom of my flat, into a seven-figure lifestyle business.

One that's allowed me to spend my days having inspiring conversations with amazing people, including Wyclef Jean, Tim Ferriss, Dorian Yates, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and more.

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And, you know, growth hormone changed the game.

We saw when Dorian Yates jumped on, and that whole era changed everything.

But...

I think it's just a generational thing.

But if we look at the extremes from like a while ago in the classic age of bodybuilding, Arnold Schwarzenegger was like the volume approach, and Mike Mensah was the intensity approach.

And more recently, Dorian Yates also adopted the same approach, which is essentially like one set to failure.

I think Dorian used to do like one slight warm-up set, one failure set.

But it's kind of the same thing.

And the difference is it's just higher risk.

So it's not like you can clearly look at both.

You can clearly look at Dorian Yates.

You can look at Arnold Schwarzenegger.