Dorian Yates Spills the Beans on How to Get the Most Out of Each Rep to Achieve Teardrop Quads

Dorian Yates’s quads were one of the most magnificent in the entire bodybuilding realm. However, the bodybuilder was someone who couldn’t do the basic exercise that many recommend for quad development. Due to an injury on his right hip back in the 80s, Yates had to transform his lower back routine a lot. From the usual barbell squats, Yates had to move to Smith machine squats. But that was not the only way he was training his quads. Yates recently revealed a better way of attaining teardrop quads.

Winning six consecutive Mr. Olympia titles, Yates has showcased how despite going beyond usually accepted training norms, one can always attain success if one tailors their training according to their needs. For Yates, it has always been trials and experimenting. This time the bodybuilder brought about a crucial tip on how to get the optimum results from every rep one does for quad development.

Dorian Yates asks fitness enthusiasts to go slow on the negative

Through one of his latest posts on his Instagram, Yates started talking about leg extensions. While displaying the right way to do the exercise for marvelous teardrop quads, he suggested, “Very important, come up squeeze at the top, come down slowly. Always control the negative.” Yates also reflected that people should think in terms of counting. He showed, “It’s like a one-two up, One two three.”

Then again, emphasizing on the importance of going slow during the negative phases, he said, “Always more slowly on the negative part of the movement. The muscle is stronger during the negative phase. So if you zip through the negative, and you don’t control, you are not going to exhaust the negative phase of the muscle.” According to him, all phases needed to be exhausted, to ensure proper muscle development.“We want to exhaust positive, negative and static,” he explained.

Dorian Yates was one of the leanest bodybuilders during his era, so much so that once he was so lean that his lower body could not keep up, and the bodybuilder started having pain in his feet. Let us look at what really happened then.

Dorian Yates’s feet hurt when he walked on wooden floors

In one of his interviews, Yates had revealed that during one of his Mr. Olympia, he started feeling a sharp pain in his feet as he walked on wooden floors. But Yates could not pinpoint what was wrong with him, so he started studying human anatomy. He recalled, “I went to my anatomy book.”

He soon understood that under one’s heel and the ball of their feet, they usually have a pad of cushioning made out of fat. However, due to excessive shredding on his part, Yates lost that fat. He commented that because of going extremely lean, it was almost as if he was walking on bones. “I was walking on bones backstage,” he recalled

READ MORE: Bodybuilding Legend With 6 Mr. Olympia Trophies Shares Ultimate Secret for Attaining Thick Muscular Back

As Yates’s fitness tips and his past reveal, one must know what exercise to engage in and how to not go to the extreme with it as well. Out of Yates’s tips, which one do you find the most effective? Let us know in the comments below.

READ MORE: “Would Destroy Today’s Contestants Easily”: Dorian Yates’ Physique From Olympia 1996 Leaves Bodybuilding World in Awe