I believe Draper had severe alcohol problems at one point. He always trained though. I have no respect for pros who compete and then have no use for training. Draper trained decade after decade for the love of it.
This. Guy who owned the first gym I went to was an absolute monster. 6'3 and just a hair at 300 pounds cut up. First time I saw someone and went "oh, THAT'S what steroids can do". He got busted for selling recreational drugs and steroids. Dumbass was selling not only steroids, but pain pills and ecstasy. Anyways...
He stopped using and never trained again. He didn't even TRY to train natural. He went from fad to fad trying to figure out how to make money training people (since he lost ALL his BB clients...). Well, he started a crossfit box. He just teaches, doesn't do anything other than show people what to do. This was back in 2000-2001, way before crossfit was widely known. I remember him telling me the gist of crossfit, telling me a sample WAD, and me going "...that sounds retarded". And then he smiled and went "yeah, but the people doing it don't care". Dude knew crossfit was/is bullshit but he recognized it for being able to take away people's money.
