I was a fan of Yates in his bodybuilding days. Straight to the point, no nonsense, hard working and very determined guy. He then retired from bodybuilding and was ill for a long time, mostly from the huge amounts of drugs he was on. He kind of disappeared for a few years then rumours began to circulate that Yates was out seen partying in clubs and whatnot. Midlife crisis I think. He did all those mind alternating drugs which destroyed the Yates I had admired by becoming this hippy dippy "we are all one" new age conspiracy theorist. He now believes that 911 was an inside job and that the lolocaust..I mean..the holocaust didn't happen.
He now contradicts a lot what he had stated back in his bodybuilding days. He calls his training system DYHIT when back in the day he actually never called it hit. He's jumping on the methzer band wagon to make money from his bodybuilding legacy. Nothing wrong with that since he's going to milk that until the day he dies because, like methzer before him, what else does he have? Like methzer, he has no real qualifications so he makes money by selling his own line of supplments which he rebrands now and again (Dorian Yates approved, DY Nutrition, Shadowline) and gives out personal training/seminars. He released his autobiography in recent years which tells the same story about his bodybuilding career like it did in a warrior's story. Yawn...heard it all before.
Now he doesn't even train because of the injuries he sustained by listening to that no good crack pot methzer. Dorian gets easily sucked in by these types of goons and it cost him.
In my early 20's, Dorian was my idol. Yes, it is lulzy, but he was my favorite bodybuilder, and after reading Warrior's Story, I viewed him as an underdog that made something of himself against odds, which is what he actually did. Although, thankfully, I was not destined to be an IFBB pro-bodybuilder, I loved the gym, and the book inspired me to train hard.
However, in the past decade, I grew very tired of him after seeing him in various interviews saying the same stuff over and over. I tend to have a dim view on people who habitually use drugs and indulge in eastern mysticism and hippy mumbo jumbo. I view them as people who cannot face the world as it is, with all of its unpleasantness and unfairness. So they choose to get high and dismiss much of what is consequential in this world. That's why you'll hear some talk of "energy" and "vibrations".
I realized he is not good at training others. Everyone featured in videos training at his gym were put through
the exact same routines he used for himself, which shows he doesn't care or know how to individualize training. And his reasoning for only one set to failure being better than multiple sets not done to failure, with a rep or two in reserve, which is the same as Mentzer's, is flawed. Although it can work, it has not been proven to be better.
I don't think Dorian is a bad guy though. I just grew tired of him. I do think he showed some decent self reflection in some interviews, which is something I highly respect in people.
I tend to get fatigued from nearly all celebrities or well-known people in any niche. I even grew tired of seeing and hearing about John Meadows even though he seemed like a good guy. Mike O'hearn is yet another man whose mere mention makes me feel fatigued (I also hate him).
