Motivation Quote by Dorian Yates

Yates delivers nutrition advice the way he built his legend: blunt, mechanistic, and ruthlessly timed. The line isn’t trying to be poetic; it’s trying to be useful in the only context he really cares about - the gym as a lab, the body as a system you can game. “Complex carbohydrates are always best” sets a rule, but he immediately punches a loophole into it: after training, break the rule on purpose. That exception is the whole point, a reminder that bodybuilding logic is less about morality (“sugar is bad”) than leverage.

The subtext is old-school performance culture: food isn’t comfort, community, or cuisine; it’s a tool. When he says “insulin is a storage hormone,” he’s framing physiology as strategy. Storage is either a threat or an asset depending on the clock. Post-workout, insulin becomes a delivery mechanism - not for vague “recovery,” but for partitioning: shove nutrients where you want them (muscle) when the body is most receptive. Outside that window, the same spike is cast as wasteful at best, fat-promoting at worst. Timing turns the villain into the hired muscle.

Context matters: Yates comes from an era when bodybuilding language became increasingly technical, mixing locker-room certainty with emerging sports science. The confident “always” and “it’s going to” sells control in a world of messy biology. It’s also a quiet flex: the real advantage isn’t just discipline, it’s knowing when to stop being disciplined.