Dorian Yates attributes his success to being an avid reader since age 10, absorbing information on subjects of interest, which informed his training and nutrition strategies.

“And I think uh something that really helped me is I'm an avid reader. I have been since I was about 10 years old. And I can take in a lot of information on a subject if I'm very interested. I'll almost be get obsessed with it for a while and then I might just I forget about that. I go interested in something else. Um so all the guys that I was training with, they were like just watching videos and listen to other guys in the gym. I was reading Mike Menso. I was reading Arthur Jones. I was trying to figure it out for myself.”