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May 1999

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 Shawn Ray, his 19th Flex magazine cover.

May 1999 - Table of Contents
Volume 17, Number 3

Bodybuilding:

  • THE BACK THAT WON THE 'O'
    Make your back as big as the Dakotas and as nasty as the Badlands.

  • ARMAGEDDON
    A 21 page treatise that stands as the final word on building the greatest arms you can possibly have.

  • THE NEXT HUGE STEP
    In phase II of the H.U.G.E. program, we turn up the heat with a torrid split system.

  • THE BIG 10
    Quick fix methods to energize your workouts.

  • IN PRAISE OF POWER
    The path to muscular size and strength is paved with sweat and blood.

  • THE SIX PEC
    Six classic chest exercises that are guaranteed to make you bigger and better.

Features:

  • THE BIG PICTURE
    The Kevin Levrone File

  • THE ETERNAL FLAME
    Focusing on goals will guide you to the promised land of success

Pictorials

  • DRAWING A BLANK
    Take a long first look at new fitness star Amanda 'Mandy' Blank.

Performance Science

  • THE MIGHT 'NORS'
    The 19-norandrostenes may be the best prohormones in history!

  • THE IRON EGGHEAD
    • Report on testosterone
    • DHEA and drug testing
    • Lactate and endurance

  • THE WORLD FROM THE STREET
    Everything you need to know about GH increasers and releasers.

  • THE FIZZ IS IN
    If effervescent creatine worth the hype?

Posters:

  • ARMAGEDDON
    Photography by Chris Lund

Nutrition:

  • ADVANCED NUYTRITION
    • Fiber options
    • The scoop on ginseng
    • More on creatine and anabolism
    • Cholesterol confusion
    • the Dope on riboflavin
    • Inosine
    • Muscle Morsels

  • BEEF RULES
    Ten reasons to put red meat on your training table.

  • THE ROUND TABLE
    One of our avuncular scribes talks to the champs about their favorite supplements.

Contests:

  • WILD TURKEY
    A graphic account of the 1998 IFBB Men's World Amateur Championships

Departments:

  • All Our Yesterdays
  • Ask Dorian
  • Ask Ms. Olympia
  • Ask Mr. Olympia
  • Factoids
  • Flex 'n' Femme
  • Future Flex
  • Hard Times
  • IFBB World Report
  • Musclehedz
  • NPC Report / Coming Events
  • Reader's Market
  • Reflexions
  • Street Scene
  • Style: Kern Style
  • Talkback