January 1996 Flex issue features a lot of info about the Olympia weekend, including analysis of the top 10 finishers, and many more interesting articles.

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 contains lots of photographs of the most muscular men and women in the bobybuilding world. Flex is the official magazine of the IFBB.

Training Science:

• Roots Revisited: What Ms. Olympia did differently to make it the joy of six.
  By Lenda Murray
• Precision Bombing! How Mr. Olympia came back from injury and reconstructed his workout approach to achieve his all time best look. By Dorian Yates.
• Training Frequency: Why you probably need to train less and sleep more.
  By Mike Mentzer
• Bodybuilding Revolution that never was! What happened to all those fancy machines that were going to change the face of bodybuilding? Here's one answer.
  By Jeff Everson
• Giant Sets for Puny Legs: A difficult but effective way to blast your pins.
  By Peter Cottrell

• Ungodly Guns: From beginner to intermediate, pumping your biceps is a basic proposition. By Mike Francois
• Wean Your Calves: The monster with 21 inch calves provides bottom line info for raising your calves into cows. By Nasser El Sonbaty.

Special Inserts

• Drug World: By Jerry Brainum
• Workout Add-ons with Captain Anabolic

Pictorials

• Master Blaster: Sonny Schmidt:
• A Medley of Muscle: Power & Sizzle recap and survey.

Grab Shots

• Planet Hollywood Muscle Connection: Beverly Hills grand opening, an Arnold affair, had plenty of muscle mingling with Tinseltown's finest.
• Covert Action: Behind the scenes at the 1995 Olympia weekend.

Drugs & Nutrition

• How Fowl! It's a killer living on chicken, so here's how one athlete survives the routine. By David Dearth
• Advanced Nutrition: An appraisal of the latest scientific literature about mixing macronutrients; creatine, choline and carnitine as fat metabolizers; and carbs and double split training. By Jerry Brainum
• The Impact of IGF-I: Report about one of the latest (and possibly dangerous) drugs to make inroads into the competition science. By Mauro Di Pasquale, M.D.

Competition

• They came, they saw, they judged: Team FLEX group assessments of the top 10 Mr. Olympia finishers
• Safe six: Despite an onslaught from Kim Chizevsky, Lenda Murray ties Cory Everson's record for Ms. Olympia victories.
• View from the Audience: Unique round by round assessment of the Ms. Olympia's top three from the pen of a fan.
• Masters of the Olympia: Over the years, the Masters O competitors have seen tough times, but for this night they rallied yet again.
• Odyssey: Fitness Olympia, and the dismal finish of Sharon Bruneau.
• Southern Hemisphere Showdown: A look at the Pan Am Games.
• 1995 European Grand Prix Tour