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June 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 Gunter Schlierkamp, his 1st Flex magazine cover.

June 1999 - Table of Contents
Volume 17, Number 4

Bodybuilding:

  • COMPOUND INTEREST
    Heavy compound exercises pay enourmous dividends for max muscle growth.

  • RETALIATE FIRST!
    An exhaustive analysis of the Weider Pre-exhaustion Training Principle.

  • THE CUTTING EDGE
    Serrated arbs - sharp and clear - will set your physique apart from the pack.

  • BUST THE TAPE
    That's what you'll be able to do after carefully following these 15 rules for constructing monster arms.

  • AN INCLINATION FOR CHEST
    A six week wonder guide for enhancing upper pecs.

Features:

  • THE BIG PICTURE
    The Melissa Coates File

  • HOLLYWOOD HARDBODIES
    FLEX names the 10 most buffed women of stage and screen.

Pictorials

  • BLOND BEAUTY
    Debbie Kruck is proof positive that blondes have more fun.

Performance Science

  • THE BIG BOYS
    The six essential bodybuilding supplements.

  • THE IRON EGGHEAD
    • Zinc's benefits
    • Creatine's plateaus
    • Andro's spikes get a once over by our regular columnist

  • MASS MEDIA
    • Drugs effect tennis circuit
    • Love affects test results
    • Pope attacks G.I. joe
    • Other news ripped from the headlines

Posters:

  • DEBBIE KRUCK
    Photography by Robert Reiff

  • VUBCE TAYLOR
    Photography by Chris Lund

Nutrition:

  • ADVANCED NUTRITION
    • Supplementing with iron
    • Assessing glucosamine
    • Using sodium bicarbonate for lactic acid
    • The scoop on sugar
    • Positive effects of gamma-linolenic acid
    • Good things about glutamine
    • And much more...
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  • THE ROUND TABLE
    One of our sardonic scribes talks to the champs about nutrition mistakes.

  • 10 FAIL SAFE FAT BURNERS
    A guide to supplements that will get you lean and mean.

  • THE H.U.G.E. DIET REVOLUTION
    The H.U.G.E. program enters its third phase; fueling the engine with a scientific, methodical, time tested approach to bodybuilding nutrition.

Contests:

  • INTO THE MILLENNIUM
    When push came to shove, Nasser El Sonbaty elbowed this way to glory in Columbus, Ohio.

  • DEDICATED TO THE DAWGS
    Chris Cormier proves that home cooking tastes better, cleaning his plate - and cleaning the clocks - of the other iron warriors at the 1999 Ironman Pro Invitational in Redondo Beach, California.

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