Dorian Yates

Dorian Yates is an English retired professional bodybuilder who won the Mr. Olympia title six times in a row, from 1992 to 1997. Born in 1962 and raised in the Birmingham area, he began training seriously in 1983, won the British heavyweight title in 1986 and turned professional at the start of the 1990s. He was nicknamed The Shadow for his habit of arriving at big contests without announcing that he would compete and for keeping out of public view between shows. Yates is regarded as the first of the mass monsters of bodybuilding, combining great size with hard conditioning, and he popularised the high-intensity training method associated with Arthur Jones and Mike Mentzer. His career ended with injuries including torn biceps and triceps, the latter three weeks before the 1997 Mr. Olympia, which he won anyway. He was inducted into the IFBB Hall of Fame in 2003 and later ran gyms and a supplement business.