As a natural lifter for 12 years, I picked up the Blood and Guts Routine 2 years ago. I got into my best shape ever. It is an extremely intense workout routine if done correctly, and you definitely need a lot of experience and a good muscle-mind connection to benefit from it. But apart from that, it was the most productive ‘system’ I have ever tried.

I liked this video because of how honest you were about steroids and how it made you question your heroes. I grew up watching Pumping Iron also and was inspired. I watched CONAN as a 7 year old and thought "To look like him, I can just lift weights and eat good." My dad told me about steroids and I couldn't believe my heroes would do that. No wonder my dad never looked as good as those guys after he trained for hours in the garage and my stupid younger self would think "Arnold looks better, dad". BUT I also think about Arnold and Lou while I train naturally. BUT I think about my dad while I train now. I'll always honor my father in the gym over some fake movie star.

Helps to have a training partner to help you go beyond failure and assist on the concentric part of the movement so you can get a few more reps out and work much harder

I love these kinds of BUFF Dude videos. Lifting hard and spittin' history and wisdom. Great way to start the year!

Only thing missing is a training partner screaming in your ear and helping with the last couple reps to go beyond failure

For these videos I’d love to see you explain the next day how sore you are and how you are feeling from the workout and any thoughts or reflections you have on it.

More Dorian please!!!!!

You guys inspire me and I’m a woman! It’s good to know you’re in the small group of fitness influencers that are no BS, no GEAR, just hard work and discipline. Happy 2024 to you!

I could literally see the blood pumping in every rep you did. Killer workout!

Trying different training types is like trying different diet and lifestyle. We are all very lucky to have the buff dudes and dudettes to motivate us by trying those.

Definitely a fan of the training videos. Always try and mimic Hudson’s and yours dedication, intensity and form.

Loved this video as it helped give me a guide on this routine and a way to help visualise it. Between this and the Tom Platt, stellar work.

YT won’t show this video in my subscriptions. I’ve checked several times. It says I’m subscribed but I only saw it because it pops up in my recommended vids.

I liked this format...been trying to do this style of workout. Thanks for this

You guys do really motivate me thanks for the great vids!

I like this type of video, and I appreciate the text at the bottom of the screen with the exercise and set with rep range.

I will always respect you guys for being honest, much more respect to those that put in the hard work and stay natty!

You guys were the first KZfaq fitness channel I ever watched. Keep up the good work, still love your content to this day.

❤❤❤❤ good job this type of training really works you and your brother might respond to this type of training better than a high volume like I was doing for 7 years but I found this I responding a lot faster❤❤❤ and you and your brother is the only one that actually talking about this high intensity style training on your Channel nobody else is talking about it or doing it or showing you how to do it

Thank you, I love how your honesty and compassion becomes poetic passion. I had a test done I am 9% body fat and wanting to maintain but want to get bigger for the year of 24 is over. Usually I just switich reps or amount weight but not my exercises. Your Lil spell helped haha. Happy New Year from an extended Buff dude fam member to the Buff dude immediate family

Man, great so glad to see Dorian Yates method in this channel. What is missing is Nautilus equipment, specially the pullover machine, but anyway great job, fantastic technique during the exercises. Keep it up 🙏

Looking good Brendan 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾 Much respect from Mozambique 🇲🇿

Good stuff. I always wonder how you guys plan it out when you try these one-off training days or one of the crazy challenges you do in the middle of your own training routine. If you're working on a full body 3-day split, but you want to try something like this, which is mostly single body part, do you just skip a regular day and do this instead? Or do you alter the whole week to incorporate this workout into the weekly plan? When I see you guys to silly things like that MMA challenge you recently did, I always worry that it's messing up the rest of your training.

Great content Buff Dudes

Been waiting for this as seems like natural progression from the Mike Mentzer workout.

This didn’t show up in my subscription feed! Great video btw

Glad to hear you guys are natural

Respect for the information all on point! just the final sets i dont belive this is actualy failure and even beyond

Hit for the win. Awesome video !!!

Dude when you made the struggle face I was transported to my workout and started making the face with you.😂 5:00

Great video 💪👍

Dorian was a monster. Great video man

My gym inspiration is you guys

Sheesh it looks like a heck of a workout even on your first working set Brandon. 🤙🏾

Ive been doing this training for a few months now & my shoulders have developed very good.

Id like to see you and hudson do more hiit videos 💪💓

Awesome video. Yates is a legend.

Great commentary on the motivation that most of us got from the muscle magazines and movies despite not knowing about the gear 👍

One of the best hit workout styles!

More HIT please , this stuff is great

You sounded like a Thwomp from Mario Bros on some of those exertion noises. Keep being awesome!

What would be awesome is if you guys did a Greg Plitt workout. He had some…unique workouts. It would be great to give this OG fitness KZfaqr some light.

I used to follow you but when I got my new phone I forgot my old account so I made a new one and im glad to see this in my recommended

I like the elbow supports, it’s hard to find a good set - which ones did you use?

You should do HIT for a couple of months as an experiment and see what happens dude, excellent video as always, STAY BUFF!!! 💪

I do warmups on some exercises but usually in more conventional style, then do the work set HIT style

Looked great. Missed out pullovers tho at the beginning

Id love to see a colab between the buffdudes and dorian! Dorian is such a smart and articulate guy, he'd be a great guy to get on.

Many thanks for another nice video! I have been training for 31 years. About ten years ago, I fell in love with HIT. I never had better results since I started it! The efficiency is perfect, and the pump is fantastic. I still love it. I now have much more time for cardio. But only some things work for everyone.

Let’s get nasty 🤙🏼

Thanks for the real talk on steroids. We need more healthy discussions like this instead of its current state.

Yeah dude buff dudes in Bend!

SUGGESTION: Make a video about arm-wrestling. (like: we tried arm-wrestlers workout, or: we entered an arm-wrestling tournament)

I hope you do his entire split. If you want to see what he is currently doing with people he trains, there's plenty of recent videos on KZfaq.

Without Training partner I do 2-3× rest pause for (10 breaths) it is a great way to go beyond failure and control the negative on the last rep trying to stop the weight. On single arm movements i use my other arm to help on positive to get the negative also to failure What do you guys say to my approach?

Shame your brother wasn't there 1) I miss the saying with the training partner let's get nasty 2) Yates on machines used to used his partner to do negatives force reps and so on to take a set beyond failure And your brother would have been handy to have with you

should try out ddp power cuffs crazy pump

lee Haney is the aesthetic balanced GOAT

Have you ever tried the bent over barbell rows underhanded? I feel it better than overhand which I feel to much in my spine instead 😮

What i missed in this video are the rest-pauze. You train till failure en then have a rest fot 10/12 seconds so you can do one/two more reps.... and a question. Why back extensions before deadlift?

I wish some were more open about differences they see when on and off gear. Or trainers that work with non or on. Mountaindog mentioned in general you recover faster when on. I'm a non and amature beginner trying to sort through it. I'm just over a year into lifting and recovery is very slow. Any tips for faster recovery as a non. Thanks for this experience

Also - you’ve done Mike Metzer arms, Dorian Yates back….. surely someone like Ronnie Coleman’s shoulders routine is next? 😊

these are the kind've train'in vid's us fitness folks can appreciate, and thanks, happy 2024 (to you and your bro)

On bent over rows do rest pause set the bar down for five deep breathes then do two to three more reps.

It’s refreshing when the BuffDudes talk about steroids, I know for myself I’ve always been curious how they look so big and lean year round? But if they aren’t on high TRT or have ever taken any peptides or SARM and are totally natural? Then I dare say.. these lads? Have top. Tier. Genetics. 👌

It's always cool to see y'all trying different routines from different Olympians. One of the biggest over looked bodybuilders I believe is Serge Nubret. He took steroids like they all did but his training method was far more beneficial than most. He would use light then medium weight and sometimes not even count reps but tried look for a weight that gave him around a thirty rep range. Count only the first set then the following sets were to failure, as many as he wanted to do. Doing that approach with the kind of weight your moving in this video, you're gonna hurt yourself. The great advantage of doing it with light and medium weight is you're less likely to injure yourself, your muscles will grow better and hopefully bigger. Plus your tendons will grow stronger too. Dorian Yates tore muscles from his bones, that's not good advice to follow dude. Also, you can take like 8 grams of creatine daily (it's not juicy like Dwayne Johnson really does, and Arnold did), it's beneficial and will help increase your muscle mass if only minimally. But hey every little bit counts, who doesn't want bigger muscles without the health risk of steroids or worse. That would be really cool if you did Serge Nubret's training methods, minus the steroids.

your had amazing form in that routine. I would have been cool tho to also see the how the rest of the body was performing those exercises.

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You could make a video about making a Dorian Lego man and I’d watch it. Dorian = legend.

Buff dudes Tried 6x Mr Olympia Dorian yates back workout 1. Reverse Grip lat Pulldown 1:20 2. Barbell Yates Row 6:16 3. Plate loaded Single Arm row 10:35 4. Seated Cable row 11:26 5. Cable Rear Delt fly 14:43 6. Back Extensions 16:06 7. DeadLift 17:15 Pullovers ? Enjoy mates 🇦🇺

You should train with dorian for the full experience 😊

Do a terminator john Conner work out

I love your content but i wonder if you do have any content for us noobs in the gym?

We need a year long journey on how big can the buff dudes get?

I've saved so much time and effort and gains by switching to Dorians style of HIT its the key for a the average person to train without time restraints

Yates always started with pullovers

Dorian had a spotter which helped to one or two forced reps.

If this video was in black and white and featured a training partner who looks like a pirate yelling "SQUEEZE IT!" then it would be the true Dorian Yates experience.

Lee Haynes be nice one try next! Or author Jones full body hit!

Bro waiting for serigo oliva arm workout bro

I’ve had trouble with my bent rows, just a bad lower back, I usually try a machine row. Do you guys land this community feel it compares well?

You forgot tbe batshit insane spotter. Get your brother on some stims and tell him to do a pirate impression next blood and guts video. I want to see the chest and biceps day!

Can we get a buff dudes flexibility and mobile workout?

Had that back looking like Vegeta’s Majin symbol

Here's something else that gets overlooked at timea about how Darian trained. He had an awesome training partner. To fully exhaust your negatives you need a good training partner. However, there are a good number of people who train without one and get good results.

Just curious. Why do you go to a commercial gym when u guys have that beautiful custom home gym?

Dude... I watch you, RP and Will Tennyson to motivate me before going to the gym!! You are an inspiration!

Many big lifters do squats and dead’s last simply because they’re so strong, it would take so much weight that the toll it would take on them (fatigue) would be ridiculous & they would barely be able to train their other isolated muscles.

You had a camera person - if they had set it up on a tripod they could have helped you go beyond positive failure into forced reps/static/negatives.

Im curious how long it took you to recover from this ?

Yates said to the camera man Don't talk to me

When I was a kid I thought the reason they got so big was that it was "their job" and that they'd just be lifting from 9-5 each day. Normal people couldn't get that big because they had to work instead.

I searched "how to build a big-ass shield" and got sent here.

I miss those all white machines of the 80's and 90's

Are you switching to HIT for a period of time or are you just hitting a one off workout inspired by yates

I want to see buff dudes do bodybuilding. Not for a workout, or for 30 days

When I was 15 I went to an old school bodybuilding gym in my local town. I was so scared to go into that particular gym some guys you could see there were huge. Asked the owner I wanted to join the gym and told him I wanted to look like Arnold and when he told me he was on steroids. I was so upset and then went through the list Rambo Sylvester Stallone steroids. I think the only one he said that wasn't on steroids was Bruce Lee.

People make the same mistake as this video when doing HIT: exhausting themselves on the warm up sets. They are there purely to enable joint lubrication, get the blood inside the working muscles, stretch them, and that's it. No fatigue, no pump, no real effort.

I think Dorian's style of HIT is misunderstood. He would take his "warm-up" sets very close to failure. Those aren't warm-ups, they're working sets. To me, he was doing more of a pyramid style with close proximity to failure. That can definitely work for a natural, especially when you consider the number of exercises. He was still getting 10+ working sets a workout within the 4 RIR or lower range which is plenty to grow, especially when half those sets were past failure. Now, it's also possible to go close to failure with much higher volumes. A lot of the KZfaq natty community trains like that, GVS is the best example. The reason why so many young guys are getting good results from HIT is that they didn't know how to push themselves in the gym. I see it all the time, the only exercises many gymgoers take close to failure are bench press and curls. I hardly ever see anyone grind on their back training or other isolation exercises. HIT also focuses more inexperienced lifters who often do too many exercises so that much of their training is junk volume. Over time, I think most naturals will need to increase their training volumes over traditional HIT to continue progressing. If you add up all my back exercises, I'm doing well over 20 sets a week, but I'm better able to target specific muscles on each movement. In general, think people should focus on rep quality, good ROM, and proximity to failure first. Using that same technique, target progression in load, sets, or reps over time (load and reps first). The method doesn't matter so much as the quality of training.

You should try a 7 day juice fast. I’d be willing to bet neither of you could finish.