Dorian is a "big" name I do think even many normies recognize. He's been on the biggest platforms, for example Joe Rogan. Non-bodybuilders may have watched because of his psychedelic use and hippie persona or whatever. There have been attempts to try to cancel him over the antisemitism. I guess he's not quite big enough where people have cared, or he's too likeable and it would backfire (it would instead draw attention to his controversial views), I don't know.
Anyway, I went on Milos' IG to see if I could find a clip of Milos doing hacks in his older age. Didn't find it yet but I saw this of Hadi doing brutal smith machine squatting. Failure not reached at any point but damn, I would die. Would get rhabdo for sure.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbwHr7RsNuw/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&exln=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==&srtk=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Almost the same on YT. Respect. What do you think joswift?
I gurantee most of the people I work with , young and old have never heard of him, no one in my family would know who he was either.
Jeez, people still think Arnold was just Mr Universe, they have no idea what Mr Olympia is
As for reaching total failure, even Dorian didnt do that, you think if he got to the point where he couldnt do another rep if he put the weight down for even 5 seconds he couldnt then pick it up and do a few more reps?
No one does squats to failure or they would be buried under the bar
Most people doing an excercise can get to muscular failure pretty easily, just take an islolation excercise with a moderate weight and rep out, lactic acid would build up relatively quickly making contraction impossible