Thread: Focus and Intensity - a demonstration

This an exerpt from a magazine about someone witnessing Dorian Yates train. It really impressed me and I found it very inspiring... hope you do too.

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To talk about this type of focus and intensity is one thing, to witness it is another, and one day I got the chance to do just that. Dorian Yates had been out on the West Coast and was training at the venerable Gold's Gym in Venice, Calif. He and Mike Matterazzo were training back, and what I saw changed the way I thought about Dorian Yates forever, not to mention the way I train today.

They were doing bent-over rows (the only exercise thus far), and Yates had done two warm-up sets with 225 and then 315, getting 20 reps or so with each weight. Matterazzo followed. Then they loaded up the bar with four plates on each side (405). Yates looked down at the weight like he was trying to melt it with his stare, and he damn nearly did. He got his hands locked onto the bar, positioned his feet, wiggled around a little, setting his body so that every single item on his checklist was in place, then heaved the bar up off the floor with a grunt. He must have done close to 30 brutal reps before the weight hit the floor. Matterazzo dashed from one side of the bar to the other and stripped a 45 off each side and Yates immediately hoisted the bar back up for what must have been another 20 reps before it crashed back down into the deck. Matterazzo once again stripped a 45 of each side, and Yates immediately had at it again, grinding out another 15 or 20 gruesome reps with a look on his face that indicated a brand of pain few men will ever know. The bar crashed to the deck a third time and Matterazzo stripped another plate off each side and Yates pulled again. Rep after perfect rep, the four wheels left glided up and down until the thud of it hitting the floor was a relief for those of us just watching. But Matterazzo quickley yanked yet another 45 off each side and Yates immediately hoisted the paltry sum of 135 in yet the same perfect bent-over row groove he had started a hundred horsepower ago. I lost count of how many he ended up doing, but the whole set might as well have been a lifetime for the effort it seemed to have drained from him. Shit, he never even once let go of the bar! Yates pulled until his great back could pull no more; the bar just ground to a halt. Mr Olympia was spent. the weight hit the deck; Yates stood up and left the gym. Back workout complete.
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Psssssssssssssssst Sandwich,
Where did you come from? and how long have you been here?
You are quite the hotty.