With his passion for training intact, Dave Draper takes a glimpse in his rear view to bring us the stories that make up the foundation of Golden Era bodybuilding. Dave’s unique writing style and spectacular insight allows us to feel like we were there, leaning against the dumbbell rack in Joe Gold’s gym in the morning, then soaking up the golden sun of Santa Monica in the afternoon.\nIn this collection of Dave Draper’s quirky memory columns, we get to sit next to the Blond Bomber as he weaves his tales from the East Coast to the West. Over 60 years under the iron surrounded by some of the world’s top bodybuilding personalities in gyms around the world provides a lot of fodder for an unusual wordsmith to mold into a most enjoyable book.\n"A Glimpse in the Rear View puts us in the passenger seat as Dave Draper pulls away from Muscle Beach and from the stage of Mr. Universe. He takes us into the dungeon, brings us out to the movie set and lets us help open a gym with the Austrian Oak. He pulls the weight set from under the bed for us and leads us in sets of dips on kitchen chairs. We meet people from all over who love the iron. We bury some of them as time moves along, and others just fade from sight.\n"This isn’t once upon a time; these are real stories. Life can be sad. Life can be cruel. Dave protects us; he cushions us in his mighty arms." ~ Dan John, author of 40 Years with a Whistle

A Glimpse in the Rear View

Draper, Dave

Biographies & Memoirs

On Target Publications, LLC

Straight Talk for the Overweight: Solutions & Motivations

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Ontarget Pubns

Your Body Revival is packed with simple, straight-talking encouragement, inspiration and motivation for permanent weight loss. Here Draper provides a common sense guide to building muscle and fitness -- packed with motivation and enthusiasm.

Your Body Revival: Weight Loss Straight Talk

Diets & Weight Loss

On Target Pubns

Brother Iron, Sister Steel is a private journey into bodybuilding as only Dave Draper, former Mr. America, Mr. Universe and Mr. World, can tell it. Training techniques, exercise descriptions and nutritional strategies form the book's foundation, but what glues this book together are Dave's personal experiences and insights, humor and candidness, all of which speak to the heart and soul. The delight in the iron work, the play of the steel and the redefined motivation will have you striving forward to reach your fitness and training goals. 
Further your iron journey—or take your first steps—as you find yourself caught up in the style and rhythm that are Draper's alone. You'll see the lessons of Brother Iron, Sister Steel hit home as your training enthusiasm abounds. In your next match with the weights you'll see the work of your muscles with new clarity under the guidance of Dave's insight.

Brother Iron, Sister Steel: A Bodybuilder's Book

Sports & Outdoors

Push that iron, lift that steel! Iron On My Mind, Dave Draper's third book, is a collection of his best work, designed to provide invigorating shots of insight, encouragement and inspiration to push, drag and lure his readers to the gym day after day. Once known as the Blond Bomber, Draper's readers now consider him the Pied Piper of bodybuilding.

Iron On My Mind

Just when you think you've read all there is to read about lifting weights and building muscle, along comes another 80,000 words echoing in the corners and hallways of the musclehead gym: schemes and routines and hints and tips with the intent to inform, encourage and entertain. The immediate message: See iron, lift iron. The ultimate message: Train hard, eat right and be happy. Don't you just love simple? It's one of the main reasons I chose the sport. No pitcher, no quarterback, no foul ball and no meddlesome referee. Just you and the iron and the rhythmic sounds of action, the grunts and groans and clanks and thuds. You are your partner, your team, your biggest competitor and your best fan; muscle and might are your favorite goals, with a good pump and burn to accompany you along the way. And none of it happens without moving a ton of weights, forging countless sets and reps, enduring a pile of aches and maybe some pain, and amassing a stack of stories to tell. And speaking of stacks of stories to tell, pull up a bench and I'll tell you a few. Dave

Iron in My Hands

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