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January 2000

Flex Magazine considers themselves the bible of hardcore bodybuilding. Each month, Flex visits and speaks with the champions of bodybuilding at their gyms, at contests, and at their homes, gathering information and photographs, Flex brings you their latest strategies, and the competitive goals that they apply to further develop their title-winning physiques. Flex is the official magazine of the IFBB Bodybuilding Federation. On the cover is Ronnie Coleman, with Arnold Schwarzenegger in an inset, as well as Minna Lessig.


January 2000 - Table of Contents
Volume 17, Number 11

MILLENNIUM SPECTACULAR

  • 2000 AND COUNTING
    Introduction to Flex's Y2K big Millennium Special

  • Y2K BIG WORKOUT
    Update your training with the cutting edge program that will take your workouts to the next level and your physique into the 21st century.

  • MILLENNIUM MOMENTS
    Compiled by Joe Roark

  • MR. Y2K BIG POSTER
    Photography by Chris Lund, Bob Gardner and Art Zeller.

  • THINGS TO COME?
    A preview of what the 21st century might have in store for bodybuilding

  • THE RESTLESS ICON
    In a Flex exclusive, the always outspoken Arnold Schwarzenegger vents about pro bodybuilding and hints of a political future.

PERFORMANCE SCIENCE

  • ADVANCED NUTRITION
    • Time release protein
    • Quick bodybuilding breakfasts
    • Cholesterol counts
    • >Much ado about leucine
    • the poop on garlic
    • And more to chew on about fat burning

  • 10 BITE SIZED MASS BUILDING TIPS
    The info you need on building maximum size in minimum time.

  • SIGN LANGUAGE
    What do the labels on your supplements tell you? Here is a practical guide to understanding what nutritional info is - and is not - printed.

  • THE ROUND TABLE
    The champs reveal their diet strategies for winning.

  • THE WRIGHT STUFF
    Breakthrough research on how over the counter prohormones can affect hormone levels and, subsequently, drug tests.

INSTRUCTION

  • THE CHEST TEST
    The bigger the pec payload, the bigger the pec payoff.

  • TEXAS TOAST
    That is what your legs will feel like after you try this fried-to-a-crisp thigh thrash.

  • H.U.G.E.
    Hardgainer's Ultiamte Growth Enhancement System: Cable Guy: Plug your mind into your muscle with cable ready training tactics.

CONTESTS / NEWS

  • RONNIE ROCKS VEGAS
    Here it is - the complete report of the stunning 1999 Mr. Olympia contest, direct from Las Vegas.

  • MASS MEDIA
    A look at the global athletic doping mess and the quixotic efforts to control the use of performance enhancing drugs.

POSTERS / PICTORIALS

  • BETWEEN A HARD ROCK AND A SOFT PLACE
    Minna Lessig unplugged? Hardly!

  • RAW AMBITION
    Two new pros - Garret Downing and Melvin Anthony - strut their stuff in a mano-a-mano last rep is the best rep training session.

DEPARTMENTS

  • All Our Yesterdays
  • Ask Dorian
  • Ask Ms. Olympia
  • Ask Mr. Olympia
  • Factoids
  • Flextra
  • Future Flex
  • Hard Times
  • IFBB World Report
  • NPC Report / Coming Events
  • Publisher's Page
  • Reader's Market
  • Reflexions
  • Street Scene
  • Talent Roundup
  • Talkback