Dave Draper’s Musclebuilding Q&A

My 18-year-old son is 5′11″ tall and weighs 130 pounds. He is in good health and has good energy, but cannot gain weight. I recently ordered your protein powder as I just found your web site googling around. Is there any advice you can give to get his weight and body fat up? He will be leaving home in the fall for college and I would like for him to have a successful protocol he can follow on his own.

Adding Bomber Blend to your son’s menu is a good start. He can use it for breakfast, midday supplemental feedings, when on the run, before and after exercise — worthy and costly ingredients for musclebuilding and health.

If I were in your boy’s situation, I’d add red meat to my diet regularly, more milk products (cottage cheese, yogurt, 2-percent milk) and other animal proteins. Nuts, fresh fruit, and various fresh cut vegetables every day. More complex carbs of value and good fats (essential fatty acids, olive oil, flax), and avoid sugar and grease. Supplement with a good vitamin-mineral (I like Super Spectrim, have for 35 years) and EFAs (Omega 3 fish oil).

Encourage him to work out with the weights for 30-45 minutes, three or four days a week… sensible pressing, curling, squatting, and deadlifting… chins and dips and push-ups and midsection… 2 or 3 sets of each of the basics… a routine will emerge.

These basics work if applied consistently, persistently and with mission purpose in mind. Not obsession, but determination; not affliction, but discipline. Too many give up too easily. Don’t miss a meal plus don’t miss a workout equals success extraordinaire.

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Go… Godspeed… Dave

I long ago read Brother Iron, Sister Steel, and have been a fan of Dave’s writings ever since. I have always been a really skinny guy, weighing in at around 130 pounds. I have tried for many years to build muscles and I was flabbergasted when my doctor told me a year ago that I have an under-active thyroid. A friend from the gym recommended I read up on Dr. Mauro Pasquale’s Metabolic Diet plan. Is low carb, high fat the way for me, or do I need those carbs to get some more muscle?

Keep it simple. Go 40, 30, 30 in your food ratios, with protein your golden resource, and nutritious carbs and EFAs your silver and bronze.

The more we read, fuss, balance, wonder, doubt and seek the perfect walk, the more we stumble and mumble. We’re all different (my latest secret), as you have been reminded with notice of your faulty thyroid.

Red meat and milk products are great weight gainers and muscle and power builders.

Menu and training consistency is absolutely critical.

I’m not advertising here; I’m honestly advising. Without Bomber Blend I’d be struggling more than I do to maintain my weight and muscle repair. It’s the perfect food to add here and there at effective times to restore and replenish, energize and build.

Train hard, eat right, relax and rest a lot, be strong and be grateful and happy,

Go… Godspeed… Dave

A while back I bought a copy of the book “Natural Hormonal Enhancement” by Rob Faigin. It’s a great book, but I’m having a tough time wrapping my mind around it totally. It’s a lot to absorb. Can you explain, in an easier way, his basic eating program for weight loss?

You’re right, Faigin’s book is a gem.

It’s also over the top for the regular guy and gal interested in getting in condition — building muscle, strength and body shape. Goes with today’s conviction we need high tech info to achieve.

Building muscles and appealing bodies requires the diligent practice of the fundamentals in nutrition and in resistance training. The why is for the curious and fascinated; it is not otherwise important.

Train hard, consistently and with heart. Eat smaller meals more often throughout the day in a high protein, lower carb and medium fat formulation.

No sugar or junk food or fried food.

Eat red meat, fish, skinless poultry, dairy and some nuts for protein intake, loads of salads and steamed vegetables and some choice fruit for carbs (dairy has carbs, too), and olive oil and what fat you get in red meat and fish for fat needs. Add EFAs (Omega 3s) as supplement for sufficient fat.

Have a breakfast always and pre- and post-workout drinks for sure nutritional advantage at these key times of the day. Bomber Blend is an excellent choice here. These are to be considered meals, the pre-workout drink used when it’s been a long time between meals and you need to fuel up for the workout. Otherwise, in the case of a weight loss program and you’ve eaten within an hour or two prior to training, switch that to post-workout.

Weight gain seekers should use a shake or half-shake prior to training and either the other half shake, or better yet, a meal post-workout.

Add a high quality vitamin-mineral for nutritional assurance as your demands and expectations are high. Super Spectrim is my choice.

To lose weight, your portions are smaller. To gain, they are larger. Rely on your instincts, logic and ability to estimate portions to guide you through the territory ahead. Too much thought is a stumbling block for any kind of long term - or short term - plan.

I know I must sound like a salesman with my suggestions, but they are, I believe, valuable. and worthy. All you need to know, unless you’re seeking a doctorate of sorts.

God’s speed… Dave

I have a 13 year old son who is a competitive athlete. Keeping him on a good diet is not always easy, and I’ve considered getting a protein/vitamin supplement for his meals on the run. I’m curious whether your Bomber Blend has been used with youths before? Is it safe and healthy for a 13-year-old?

Bomber Blend is an excellent food for the whole family. Got tykes? Nothing but the finest and best ingredients for health, muscle repair and natural energy. No added nonsense to conform with marketing hype. I custom made it with aid from medical experts and chemists for Laree and me regardless of cost … it became Bomber Blend for everyone.

Your boy (you all) will benefit greatly from the Blend consumption at key times during the day: pre- and post-workouts or work, breakfast, and those busy times when meals are neglected or replaced by junk.

Taste is popular with nearly all consumers, although of course some people prefer sweeter or less sweet shakes.

Bomber Blend goes from us to you without you paying advertising costs (large) or distributorship. I count on it; it plays a key role in my training operations.

Go… Godspeed… Dave

I am not a big food fan. I don’t really have any food cravings. To be honest it is a pain in the butt to sit down and eat a meal. If I could take a pill like in the ’50s sci-fi movies to get all my nutrients I would. So my question is can I survive and continue to progress in my lifting if I just took the right amount supplements to give me the nutrients I need?

Eat right, train hard and grow.

We need substance to build substance, common sense tells me. Our complex system of ingestion, digestion and absorption is designed to process whole and living food and, though I’m not a scientist, I believe the system is most fulfilled when we accommodate its natural design.

Liquids and powders and pills, I suspect, will not stimulate the system (enzymes, hormones) sufficiently and, thus, will not be assimilated sufficiently. Lost in the stream of activities, these non-solids will fail to provide the tangible and vital ingredients in the proper setting to develop and sustain the body.

One might adapt and live a middling life, but total health and productivity would be compromised.

Get three square meals a day — okay… two if you’re gonna’ scream — and supplement wisely for the remainder of your nutrient needs. Bomber Blend and Super Spectrim and Anabol Naturals are my honorable choices for your added ingredients. Oh, yeah, and get your daily fish oil.

Got teeth… chew… Godspeed… Dave

I was just wondering if you could recommend and break down a daily plan for carbohydrate intake. I’m just trying to develop lean mass and strength without unnecessary carbs. I avoid sweets most of the time.

You’re asking the wrong guy. I don’t want to sound careless or casual — I’m not — but I don’t assess these details as closely as some lifters, as I consider them boring, confusing, time consuming, distracting and less important than they seem. Plus they dilute my interest in and enthusiasm for working out, which is where it’s at.

I estimate carb intake using instinct, practice, and common sense, sort of like a bird or bug or baboon. You appear to be on the right track with carbs in control.

I up protein when seeking weight gain, then add hi-value carbs and good fats. I keep the carbs higher earlier in the day and I don’t over-eat.

Now to blast it with confidence and grow…

Go… Godspeed… DD

I want to try your protein blend, but am hesitant because I can buy other proteins cheaper. Can you give me some reasons why I should make the switch? Also, I know you recommend the products you guys sell, but is there comparable evidence done by an independent party in regard to the high quality of Bomber Blend, Super Spectrim and Anabol Naturals?

About the Bomber Blend, my primary reason is the cold processing. Most protein powders are processed with heat or chemicals, which damage the proteins to some degree, and oxidize whatever cholesterol is in the powder. You can be certain that’s not the case with our cold-processed protein.

That should be reason enough, but there’s more. There’s the taste and mixability the consumers commend; there are very high percentages of the B-complex needed for utilization and tissue growth, substantial antioxidants, expensive addition of BCAAs for tissue repair, essential enzymes for digestion (absorbability and assimilation), some fiber and colostrum factors.

Whey, a short-chain molecule for quicker assimilation for muscle energy, and casein, a long-chain molecule for slower absorption for muscle rebuilding, combine ideally for the weightlifter’s and musclebuilder’s needs.

We, Laree and I, have no overhead. No staff, no distributor, no advertising, no storage = no added costs. We pick up the product from the lab and ship it to the customers.

The Bomber Blend was made for me personally after a comprehensive round-table discussion with two protein research experts, a tri-athlete internist and the manufacturing laboratory’s chemist and the owner. The goal: the best protein for my musclebuilding needs without the restraints of cost. Bomber Blend was the result.

Big companies have huge costs and begin to compromise product ingredient and production cost to realize a good bottom line. When it’s priced right for the consumer, it’s cheap to make. I believe that’s indisputable.

Quality above cost of protein is first. With the Bomber Blend you get both. Laree and I are not able to gouge.

Users rave about confidence, results, flavor… there you have it…

I understand your need for credible evidence that our supplement offerings are better than others, the best in fact. There is so much competition and hype and deception in the marketplace that the truth is seldom available and certainly hard to find. Who can you trust?

Before hunting down an independent study-group’s opinion on the food supplements we offer, I have come to trust my own vigorous efforts and needs to attain the best ingredients in the best combinations for muscle growth and energy and endurance.

Even study groups are tainted or vague or unreliable. Again, who can you trust?

I’ve been taking Super Spectrim and Anabol Naturals for over 33 years for the same reasons. They work for me, I’m not alone in recognizing their quality and they — the forever designers and owners — are as honest as the sunrise.

We receive nothing but praise for Bomber Blend, Super Spectrim and Anabol Naturals from weight lifters and athletes who seek strength and health and happy lives.

Consider the source… I ask you to trust us… why not?

Go… Godspeed… Dave