{"id":14692,"date":"2025-07-16T03:03:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T20:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=14692"},"modified":"2025-07-16T03:03:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T20:03:45","slug":"how-dorian-yates-sculpted-his-core-with-just-two-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=14692","title":{"rendered":"How Dorian Yates Sculpted His Core With Just Two Moves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>British bodybuilding great Dorian Yates is known for his meticulous attention to detail, designing a winning Olympia prep between 1992 and 1997, but in a recent Instagram post, the man they call \u201cThe Shadow\u201d has revealed that when it came to his abs, less meant more. Here\u2019s how he trained his core to captivate those judges.<\/p>\n<p>While you\u2019d be forgiven for assuming that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muscleandfitness.com\/athletes-celebrities\/interviews\/dorian-yates-talks-old-school-training-on-the-menace-podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the man behind the \u201cBlood &amp; Guts\u201d style of training<\/a> must have spent countless hours on numerous machines to sculpt his concrete-like abs, the truth was far simpler. \u201cI usually trained abs once per week and they were usually done as an extension at the end of shoulders &amp; triceps,\u201d explained the legend in an informative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thedorianyates\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post for his 1.8 million followers<\/a>. \u201cThis was because I felt that shoulders and triceps was probably the \u2018easiest\u2019 workout of the week (well, easier than the others),\u201d wrote the six-time consecutive Mr. Olympia winner.<\/p>\n<h2>Dorian Yates\u2019 Two-Move Ab Finisher<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Bodyweight Ab Crunches to failure:<\/strong>\u00a02 Sets<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reverse Bodyweight Ab Crunches to failure:<\/strong>\u00a02 Sets<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Workout Breakdown<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cMy abs routine was simple,\u201d concluded Yates. \u201cBut these were done with a hard contraction and a big exhalation of the air at the peak of the contraction,\u201d he qualified. \u201cWe would squeeze our abs so hard that they\u2019d be on the verge of cramping, almost!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the uninitiated, the reverse crunch involves lifting your lower body rather than the upper body. While both types of crunch will work your six-pack muscles and the obliques on the side, the reverse variation has the added benefit of taxing the lower portion of the abs, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe physique that inspired me when I was younger, especially abs wise, was Bruce Lee\u2019s,\u201d revealed Yates. \u201cHe had great abs. In my youth, I\u2019d always be doing bodyweight exercises like sit-ups and pushups, with a poster of Bruce Lee watching over me! As far as I remember, I always had a visible set of abs. In my early bodybuilding days, I would train them with weights, but I noticed that they would grow fairly quick and would potentially look quite \u2018blocky.\u2019 So, I switched to contraction work with just my body weight. In my opinion, it wasn\u2019t really that important to train my abs as they were always visible due to my low body fat year-round and my genetics did play a part here in helping me stay lean.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bodybuilding icon makes an important point here, because lowering your body fat level is a move that must be added to every successful ab routine. \u201cEveryone has abs\u2026 it\u2019s just a case of revealing them,\u201d enthused the Mr Olympia mainstay.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thedorianyates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">To follow Dorian Yates on Instagram, click here.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.muscleandfitness.com\/flexonline\/training\/how-dorian-yates-sculpted-his-core-with-just-two-moves\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British bodybuilding great Dorian Yates is known for his meticulous attention to detail, designing a winning Olympia prep between 1992 and 1997, but in a recent Instagram post, the man they call \u201cThe Shadow\u201d has revealed that when it came to his abs, less meant more. 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