

He left the company in 2006 to form his own company, Dorian Yates Ultimate Formulas, which offers a line of protein and weight-gain supplements. In 1998, Yates partnered with Kerry Kayes to form the bodybuilding supplement company CNP Professional, which marketed a Dorian Yates Approved product line in the U.S.

The company marketed athletic apparel and bodybuilding-related books. in 1994 with Mike Mentzer and Ray Mentzer. Yates formed the California-based company Heavy Duty Inc. The Birmingham gym has now relocated from Temple Street to the city's jewellery quarter. As of 2020, only the original Birmingham gym is still in operation. In 2006, he franchised four additional Temple Gym locations, three of which are in the UK. In 1987, Yates purchased Temple Gym, located on Temple Street in Birmingham. Regarding the use of PEDs, he referenced the documentary Super Size Me and stated that eating three McDonald's meals a day is more harmful for the metabolism than his 12 years of regular steroid use. He believes that his injuries are due to his habit of maintaining an extreme level of training intensity all year long, even when approaching contests, while being on a severely restricted " cutting" diet which weakens the body overall. He combined his enormous muscle mass along with peak conditioning, quoted as being "granite hardness". Yates is considered to be the first of the "mass monsters" in bodybuilding. He earned the nickname "The Shadow" coined by Peter McGough for his tendency to unexpectedly appear at major bodybuilding contests and steal the win, having neither confirmed nor denied whether he would compete beforehand, and for spending most of his time between contests avoiding the public eye. Yates was a proponent of Arthur Jones and Mike Mentzer's high-intensity training (HIT) style of bodybuilding, which poses that maximum muscle stimulation can be reached through short and intense workout sessions instead of long and slow ones. Olympia, which he won in spite of the injury his win generated controversy among fellow athletes, critics, and amateurs, who thought the runner-up Nasser El Sonbaty deserved to win. His career ended in large part due to chronic acute injuries, including torn biceps and triceps, the latter just three weeks prior to his final contest, the 1997 Mr.
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His professional record consists of 15 major contest wins and two second-place finishes from 1992 to his retirement in 1997 he won every single contest he entered. Birmingham as a novice and in 1986 became the British Champion at Heavyweight for the first time. Yates started working out in 1983 at Martin's Gym, the original bodybuilding gym located in Temple Row, Birmingham. Each of them received 6 months at Whatton Youth Detention Centre, where Yates would take up weight training.

One day after the 1981 Birmingham city centre riots, they claimed to have come across a partially broken shop window, when one of Yate’s friends attempted to steal a hat off of a mannequin, it had fallen, smashing the rest of the shop window in the process. When Yates was 18, he and his friends (part of a “ skinhead” gang) were arrested while crossing Birmingham to get to a party. As a professional bodybuilder, Yates lived in the Ladywood and Castle Vale areas of Birmingham. He, his mother and his sister then moved to Walmley in Sutton Coldfield. Yates' father died of a heart attack when he was 13. Dorian Andrew Mientjez Yates was born on 19 April 1962 In Solihull then in Warwickshire, England, and grew up on a farm in Hurley, rural Warwickshire.
