Dorian Yates Looks at His Old Bodybuilding Pictures - The Joe Rogan Experience

Hello freak bitches. I feel good man. I fucking got a suit from Hugo Boss a couple months ago off the rack and this was like so happy I could just buy a suit off the rack. You know before I had to have it made and if it go for a fitting go for another fitting. All that shit man. I'm sure if they looked at the measurements on paper they were like what the fuck what is this suit for? What is this? You know it's like this wide going down. What is this wardrobe? What is it? You know? Yeah I look on the other side of it. You know young guys coming up maybe they think that's strange like and then they ask me don't you look at the pictures back and think wow I look like that. I'm like no I don't look at I just look at that and I think wow that was fucking extreme and what I did and that's crazy and that's incredible but um does it weird you was for a competition yourself? Like does it a little bit sometimes when I look at those black and white pictures giant picture of Dorian Yeats and his prime. If you got any of those black and white pictures man that's just like insane there it is look at that. That's insane man that's like you couldn't really fit any more muscle onto that frame really. You're not really like I know I went to places and I did things that other people you know in the gym. Look at your fucking forearms. Well there's a thing forearms. I never did any training for forearms all that was just from gripping the bar when I was doing back training mainly and and some bicep training and stuff. So I had 19 inch forearms and I didn't do a single fucking exercise for them apart from gripping onto stuff. Look at that it's so ridiculous. Well that's a good picture but it's not me. Who's that? I don't know. How dare you Jamie pull up a non-Dorian Yeats. Because somebody put it on right next to the text. Somebody put it on Google. Put up that one. Keep going to your right. No no down where you were. Yeah go to your right. One more. That one bam. Side tricep. Jesus Christ. That's from an on stage picture from Mr. Olympia. So what you can see if you look on the legs you can see the thinness of the skin and the like the density of the muscle underneath. Like there's no fat there's no water between the skin layer and the muscle layer. What body but what percent of body fat did you get down to? Well I don't really know because I had skin fall calipers. I used to do the skin fall calipers. They're not accurate. They used to get down to like 3.5 probably like a month out. But I know I got leaner after that but they didn't really register because they're not that accurate after that point. So I don't know maybe 3 percent but it's you know nobody measures your body fat. It's what you look like. It's a visual thing. Right. It's really what you look like in the mirror. But how did you know like how much water to drink and when to back off and experience. I didn't really get your fucking legs dude. I don't restrict water intake until like maybe 24 hours before the contest. Look at your right leg there. That's preposterous. Yeah that's a huge medialis right over the knee there. Yeah that's a lot of sick work man. That's like I used to train legs pretty much once a week and for four or five days of every week I had trouble sitting on the toilet. I had trouble moving around. I mean if I didn't I wouldn't be happy man. I had to feel that fucking pain. Pain in the ass, pain in the leg just to sit down. But hey satisfying because you know you've fucking done some damage right. If it's like that and the damage repairs itself to get slightly bigger and stronger. Bodybuilding is just an adaptation to stress. You know you put a certain stress your body's going to adapt to it. Fuck I need to get bigger and stronger so I can handle this stress next time. That's basically what it is. So continually trying to stress yourself. Like anything like you want to get better cardio you've got to stress your cardio system so it adapts. Yeah there's no other way right to get that big. I mean there's no shortcuts. There's nothing you can do. There's no easy route. Well I don't know. It looks like guys are looking for the easy route now because I don't see them training that hard but then you don't see the quality of the physiques. The guys are big now but you look at the quality it's not the same. It's not the same. Okay it's not the same. It's generally accepted in bodybuilding that the 90s was the peak of competitive physiques as far as the standard and the depth of the standard. There was like six to eight guys on that stage that were like really like if you were off you know there's places could change. Now you've got one guy Phil Heath who's a Mr. Olympia and it's pretty like distance between him and the next few guys. Now what is it though? I mean doesn't it open the door for a current modern day Dorian Yates like some super dedicated person? I mean physiologically people can still do the same things that you did. Yeah but things have changed since the 90s. There's a lot more avenues that people could choose to go down as like doing a sport or I mean for instance UFC didn't exist in the early 90s. I remember watching the first show on I was in New York I watched on TV the first the very first one you know with the Royce Gracie. So you got MMA, you got CrossFit and you got all these other competitions now in the in the bodybuilding arena that's not bodybuilding. It's men's physique where they wear the board shorts and they're gonna have the nice physique and abdominals the kind of physique that most people aspire to have I guess. You got classic bodybuilding so you got a lot of different avenues and I think the interest in pure bodybuilding is a lot less than it I mean in the 90s everyone wanted to be a bodybuilder it was like hugely popular. Yeah what's interesting now what is this Jamie what are you pulling up here? This is a Mr. Olympia from 1996. It's myself Sean Ray in the middle and that's Ronnie Coleman on the end who became an eight-time Mr. Olympia. You guys are all jacked. Also it's so hard to tell. See like I'm looking at this I'm like how the fuck do you pick? The guy on the end is the best. That one right there. Well it's also got to be hard for that tiny dude that's next to you you know because you're just so much bigger than him. The tiny dude has always been unhappy because he got beaten by me but the thing is he had a great physique just like Frank Zane had a great physique. You know if he was the same size as Arnold maybe he would have beat him but he wasn't the same size as Arnold and the same goes with the gentleman up there Mr. Sean Ray. He had a great physique but you know he was twice as big so a big guy always beats a good little guy right. Yeah.