Reviews
Oldschool Dorian Yates H.I.T Training
Its good, but i do believe if you don't train w extreme intensity like the guy mentioned in the title "mr yates" then you're better off with a more frequency oriented program.
I come from a powerlifting background and I only ever cared about going up in strength, not about volume or hypertrophy. After 10 years of this, I decided to finally give that style of training a try. I have already conditioned myself to train to failure so I greatly appreciated the intensity of Dorian Yates style training. Within a month, I had already noticed size increases in my upper body. I recommend this program to anyone who is completely honest with themselves about how hard they are training and if they are capable of pushing beyond failure. If you are that type of person, you will be rewarded and happy with your results.
Good program. Coming from higher volume I didn’t know what to expect, but the gains have been there and recovery is supercharged. So far so good.
If you are willing to truly go past failure on each set these HIT programs work. Yates says it took him 45 minutes.... He must be counting only time under an actual weight lol with proper warm ups and time between sets recovering and trying not to throw up on leg day. It's an hour and a half. Would be really hard to do this appropriately if you don't have a partner because again, you have to go past failure on each set to see results from my experience.
3 lbs of muscle
Every week I'm getting stronger but muscle mass is not increasing. I feel like the program needs more sets but I'm just going to keep going by the program and see how it goes
Solid
Great program. It suited me very well with my limited time. The rest periods were great too as I am a natural body builder. It gave me enough time to recover without loosing momentum.
I like the low set count but high intensity. You get in and out of the gym at a reasonable pace.
The workouts are repetitive throughout the programme. Will be good if they change atleast every 2-3 weeks