Bodybuilding is a sport that entails proper training methodology, nutrition, conditioning, and mental tenacity. Dorian Yates, better referred to as ‘The HIT Man’ due to his high-intensity workouts, learned psychology, science, and exercise techniques on his path to becoming a legend. After beginning his bodybuilding career in 1983, he finally lifted his first Sandow trophy in 1992. The Shadow is a 6x Mr. Olympia from 1992 to 1997, who ruled the stage with his great aesthetics. 

In his recent post on Instagram, Yates talks about why he didn’t find schools useful. He captioned the post, “Throughout life, I always did it my way.” The post is a glimpse into Dorian’s ideology on learning. 

Dorian Yates talks about the education system

The Shadow penned down his thought process on learning and why he thinks schools indoctrinate children. He quotes, “Even at school I began to question things, and looking back I feel much of school was indoctrination, not education.” Moreover, he mentions, “Once I’d learned to read, write and do basic maths what was I taught that I have ever used in life? Nothing really.” He makes a bold statement over here. However, he has exhibited learning on his own as well by applying high-intensity training in his workout regimens. 

Moreover, commencing with what he has written, he explains how Paul Baxendale, who was one of his old training partners, sent him an article. It was based on how the foundation of the American and European education system was based on the Prussian education system. As he wrote, “It was originally designed to ‘indoctrinate’ children and to make them ‘model citizens’, basically ‘unthinking, non-critical thinkers’, unlikely to revolt!” The fact that this did not work on him did not surprise Yates. 

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Dorian Yates explains his training approach

Dorian Yates elaborates on his training regimen by stating that in bodybuilding, especially in terms of volume, less is often more. Even he could have adopted the training regimen of 7 days a week, exercising 4 hours a day, but there was no logic in it. He wrote along the same lines, “It’s why, when everyone around me was in the gym 6 days a week, training each body part twice a week, spending 2-3 hours a day in the gym I had evolved mine to just 4 times a week with workouts lasting less than an hour each.”

Nevertheless, he believes that more intensity is always better than less. But, a bodybuilder can only give his 100% intensity to one set. Thus, he states, “Just the mere knowledge that you will do another set will make you hold back subconsciously and therefore underperform.” Yates even talks about his one working set principle and states that he applied it in 1992 Olympia when he realized he was training too much after meeting Mike Mentzer. What do you think about Dorian Yates’s views on the education system? Do comment below.

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