Dorian Yates won his first of six Mr. Olympia titles in 1992. His huge, grainy physique was the next step up from the more aesthetic previous Mr. O, Lee Haney…
Even so, Yates looks very aesthetic in this shot, which is from early in his Mr. O reign…
Yates at 5’10 1/2” had jaw-dropping mass at an eventual competition bodyweight of around 275—and he created all that mass with short workouts compared to his peers’ gym sessions.
He was from the high-intensity, Heavy Duty school of bodybuilding—but he favored higher-rep warmup sets prior to his all-out, brief heavy mass blasts…
That’s similar to our slow-twitch exhaustion, or STX, method. It begins each muscle assault with a high-rep set to pre-exhaustion slow-twitch fibers, engaging more fast-twitch growth fibers on heavier sets that follow. It also triggers growth in those often neglected slow-twitch endurance fibers as well—a double dose of muscle growth…
We’ve also found that you don’t have to use crazy heavy poundages to hypertrophy the fast-twitch fibers after a high-rep set—if you do it right…
There’s more in the expanded version of our Quick-Start Muscle Building Guide, now 2.0, with many mass tactics—like STX, slo-mo, and speed reps—infused into short, efficiency-of-effort home workouts…
The workouts in the new section are tailored to build muscle in a bare-bones home gym with only moderate poundages—all you need is an adjustable bench and dumbbells (we have only the 50-pound PowerBlock set, and it’s working great for us, which is why we updated this ebook)…
You can add this updated ebook to your mass-building library by clicking HERE.
Till next time, train hard—and smart—for BIG results.
—Steve Holman and Jonathan Lawson
www.X-Rep.com
Mass-Building Lessons From the Master Trainer
Vince Gironda was the Iron Guru, a bodybuilding legend ahead of his time. His most famous pupil in the bodybuilding world was the very first Mr. Olympia Larry Scott, and he also trained many Hollywood stars back in the day, like Clint Eastwood, and even Arnold consulted with him and was a fan (even though Vince told Arnold that he was a “fat f**k” when he first arrived in the U.S.).
Many of Vince’s mass-building tricks and methods have been forgotten, buried by information and misinformation overload on the Internet, but now you can find them all, his true methods, in this must-have, 330-page Vince Gironda e-book anthology…
You get everything from “Train 21 Rest 7” to 10-8-6-15 to Vince’s Stone Age Nutrition, the 8×8 method and program and much, much more (remember, it’s 330 pages). And it’s on sale at a discount for a limited time: Simply use the code GIRONDA20 at checkout for an extra 20 percent off.
Vince Gironda: Legend & Myth (300-page anthology + many bonus gifts and programs) HERE