Name: Joe Rogan Experience #989 - Dorian Yates
Uploaded: 2017-07-27T00:26:42.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #989 - Dorian Yates' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-07-27. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #989 - Dorian Yates' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-07-27. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #989 - Dorian Yates

push the sucker right up close three two one and we're live what's happening
man how are you i'm
cool man up here in l.a it's nice to meet you in person i've seen you in
magazines i've seen you
since man like when when did you first burst onto the bodybuilding scene what
year was that i was
reminiscing today first time i came out here was 1992 goals gym so i came from
uk to do my first
professional bodybuilding contest was called night of champions in new york and
i got second place
there and made a real big impact and the weeder company that used to be based
out here with a flex
magazine and muscle and fitness they're right down the street they used to be i
don't think they are
no it's all closed down there's a fence around it and everything but that's not
that's less than a
mile away from here yeah the weeder offices are out there and you know we do
was uh it was a big name
in bodybuilding the magazines and everything so they flew me out here did my
first photo shoot at gold's
1990 so yeah 27 years ago man i remember watching you in those magazines you
were the first guy
well you know what the first guy but you were one of the first guys that i ever
saw in a magazine that
i was like gee how the is that a person you were so big man jesus christ you
were big that's funny
because i look back at some pictures now of me and i say what the fuck
you know uh it's extreme it's um and i came into the sport and i wanted to see
what i could do i wanted
to like take it as far as i could take it you know well you represented to me
as an outsider looking in
this insane determination you know like i felt like all the best guys whether
it was arnold or you
or lee haney all the top guys they always represented not just like the biggest
and the most
profoundly ridiculously muscular bodybuilders but also this extreme dedication
that was required
to reach that level well you know you've been around man you with martial arts
and everything
any kind of sport is the same thing what separates the guy that's first from
second from third or
whatever you know you all got certain physical characteristics that that help
you in your sport
and so on so you're all gifted up there so what can separate the guy from first
and second and third
it's it's all up there that's that's the key how did you develop your mindset
was that something that
you always had was it something that you developed as you were training i think
it's something i already
already had and uh i kind of left home when i was 16 so i was out on my own on
the street and uh you
know you're either going to get smart and you know look after yourself or you're
going to fall down
there's nobody there to catch me so that was there from uh from an early age i
think and uh i was just
very determined to do this thing that i would felt i could be good at in order
to change my life and
change you know uh the projection of my life around the people around me um i
always grew up on a housing
estate in uk i had no education i was in a jail when i was 18 so i had all that
that was you know the
people around me i was like i didn't want part of that future i wanted to do
something else and i got
this thing that i was good at so i'm going to take it and run with it you know
it's crazy how many people
have similar stories like that where they were in just a terrible environment
and they realized that
they had to toughen up they had to smarten up and they had to get out of there
and if not for those
terrible situations who knows if they would have ever reached the levels of
greatness that they did
i can tell you from my point of view i don't think i would have done because i
would be too comfortable
if you're comfortable you're not going to put yourself through that extreme
kind of pressure and pain and uh you know i wanted to improve my life change my
life and
through the sport here i am sitting talking to you on this show people are
listening to me
i've been all around the world um thanks to my sport so it's been great for me
you know when you
meet current bodybuilders are they like hey man what the i could be not a
gigantic huge mr hulk
anymore you're a regular size athletic looking dude yeah not really maybe some
of the younger
guys that are that are coming into this now but you know people know me um i
was a professional
bodybuilder that's what i did and i was the best at doing that but that kind of
training and that kind
of physique is not going to serve me now so i do training to be more functional
uh my goals are more
health related now uh whereas before i was a young guy and i wanted to be the
best at this thing i was
doing i put everything into that um but you know that kind of physique's not
practical for everyday
usage you know i can hardly tie my shoelaces when i was 300 pounds oh i'm sure
man and how tall are you
like five ten five eleven five eleven so like when you were that big you were
just a ball of muscle just
a mass yeah and 300 pounds i was 300 310 in the off season jesus christ
competing 265 but i mean 265
lean as fuck dehydrated you know shredded so yeah god that's that's all i did
that was all i did i
trained i eat i sleep i studied that's just all my mental focus was like lasered
on that thing that was
doing nothing else i wouldn't go to the movies i wouldn't go to dinner if i got
home after 11
because i got to be in a bed at 11. that was you know that was the regime that
i lived for for many
years and that's why i was able to beat other people that maybe could be argued
they were more gifted
than me but they weren't willing to do that so that's that's what it's all
about yeah that's what
i had always read about you and that's what i that like i said that was like
the impression that i
always got like what you represented is the pinnacle of extreme dedication
yeah and and study you know um we had no internet then uh everybody's got
coaches now and nutritionists
the thing that appealed to me is this was an individual thing i had to learn
about the training
i had to learn about the nutrition i had to learn all this stuff myself and
that was
apart from the training that was part of it as well the you know the learning
part of it i enjoyed was it
hard to get good information because i'm sure there's a bunch of like gym
experts there's always
these bro science guys that are hanging around giving you shitty advice like
how hard was it to get
the proper information when it came to training i kind of sifted through it and
uh was very influenced
by a guy called arthur jones don't know if you've heard of him but arthur jones
he invented the nautilus
machines and uh this guy was like a billionaire self-made billionaire he just
was fascinated with
bodybuilding but had no business interest in it so he just wanted to you know
he studied it and it was
like what is it that causes muscle growth what is it and um he found it was the
intensity of exercise
and then there was another bodybuilder mike mensu who went to compete in the mr
olympia won the mr
universe he took those principles and he used them um so i read all this stuff
and it was very logical
you know it made sense and then i tried it out in the gym and it worked in the
gym and if i trained more
often or if i did more in the gym my progress would slow down or it would stop
as soon as i cut back
and i made the workout shorter and more intense um my progress went so it was
for me it was pretty
early on i learned how to train properly and that's why i was competing i
competed in a world championship
after 18 months training which is pretty much unheard of that is pretty much unheard
of now when you say
shorter more intense workouts how did you regulate that like that is that's a
huge issue with martial
artists is over training or they want to do more work than everybody else they
want to work harder
than everybody else and they wind up breaking their body down and showing up
for the fight exhausted
over training is a big thing yeah and if you you see the the process for muscle
growth is you go in
the gym and you put stress on the muscle if you put stress that it's not used
to then it's going to
react you're going to get growth but you need to recover from that first you
don't go to the gym and
grow and then recover later that's that's not the way it works you go if you've
you know you give some
your body some stress it's not used to you'll get a reaction but before you get
the reaction you have to
recover so if you're not allowing enough time to recover you just i use this
analogy at seminars i
do it's very simplistic but it gets a point across if you get a bit of sandpaper
and you rub it across the
palm of your hand and it's kind of bloody if you leave it and let it heal up
what's going to happen the
skin's going to develop back a little bit stronger a little bit thicker than
before because it wants to
protect against that stress so that's the process but if you go and you make
your hand bloody and
before it's healed up again you go and rub it again what's happening you're not
really getting
anywhere you're just going to have a bloody hand you know you think you're
being tough but you're
actually just being silly yeah and it's uh why are you going to the gym right i'm
going to the gym to
get results so i'm going to do whatever it takes to get results and if it means
training 30 minutes
once a week or it means training 10 hours a day every day whatever it takes i
was willing to do
it and i would have done it but um training 10 hours a day is not going to
build your muscle it's just
going to burn out so i was doing average 45 50 minute workouts probably four
times a week
really that's it wow that's incredible and everybody says oh that's it whether
i write on a piece of
paper what the is that that's nothing man i'm like okay but come and do it come
and do it and tell
me if you want to do more when we're finished nobody has ever said oh please
can we do some
more they're like no that's it that's enough because every set by the warm-up
sets you got
to warm up and you know to be safe and everything but the set the real sets i
call them we're going
to go to absolute failure and even beyond with force reps with assistance reps
maybe extra negative reps
which is um something most people neglect when they lift weights they think you
know i've lifted it all
right boom let it go down i've lifted it but they're they're neglecting the
lowering part of
the weight the negative so i get people to really slow that down so you're taxing
that part as well
and even at the end of the set on some exercises with machines where it's
practical so you you know
you can't curl anymore physically on the positive on the contraction but your
strength on the lowering
is greater so if you did curls and you failed i could lift the weight to the
top for you and you could
lower it down for probably another three reps so if you just gone to failure
here you wouldn't have
exhausted the the negative part of the rep so my thing is i exhaust everything
it's totally
fucked you can't lift you can't lower it you can't lift it it's total failure
if you do that once on an
exercise then time to move on do another exercise how did you develop your
protocol just trial and error
trial and error and you know i didn't invent this system of training as i said
people there before
me arthur jones mike menser i just took what they did and refined it a little
bit more for a competitive
bodybuilder because arthur jones wasn't competitive bodybuilder the people he
trained weren't so his
his routines were even briefer than mine but for a bodybuilder you know you got
you got to work the
side del you got to work different aspects so i i probably did a little bit
more than they did
um so i adapted it to myself and my needs now when you were at your height and
when you're 265 pounds
shredded and dehydrated and and then 310 pounds in the off season you got you
must be like used to
looking at yourself like that like was it hard to adapt to being i mean y