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January 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 Ronnie Coleman, with Monica Brant in the right hand corner.


January 1999 - Table of Contents
Volume 16, Number 11

Bodybuilding:

  • ALL OR NOTHING MASS
    Free weights, basics, low reps and high sets are the key to this pragmatic training philosophy. By Lee Priest.

  • 21 GUN SALUTE!
    In this eye popping FLEX special, elite members of the 21" guns club indulge in some strategic arms talk - they reveal their most productive biceps routines and share training advice as potent as a scatter gun fired from a moving vehicle.

  • IN THE TRENCHES
    Objective Objectives! A guide to realistic goal setting for bodybuilders with unlimited expectations

  • GIVE ME STRENGTH
    675 pound squats and 365 pound behind the neck presses. Am I crazy or what? You be the judge, but only after reading this love letter to lifting heavy for a new level of growth. By Chris Cormier.

  • H.U.G.E.: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO FUNDAMENTALS
    Frontal Assault. The advantages of doing front squats for overall thigh mass. By Milos Sarcev.

  • SIZE MATTERS
    How to take your physique to a dimension way beyond the limits of your imagination.

  • BACK UP
    A six week crash course on building a big, thick back. It's an easy to use system: Warm up the muscles thoroughly, then go heavy for three basic lifts.

Features:

  • LETTING GO!
    'Why I decided to retire from competitive bodybuilding" by Dorian Yates.

  • JOE WEIDER'S BODYBUILDING HALL OF FAME
    We profile the 12 inaugural inductees, bodybuilders who helped establish and shape the iron sport.

  • THE THAI CONNECTION
    Ten questions asked of new IFBB pro Dennis James.

Contests

  • MADISON SQUARE GARDEN KNOCKOUT
    Are you ready for the shocking truth? If so, grab a bottle of your favorite liquid and gear up for the battle for bodybuilding's ultimate honor. Complete blow by blow coverage from ringside at Madison Square Garden. Commentary analysis and a whole lot more.

  • THE JOY OF DEX
    As quick as you can say Masters and Johnson, the always engaging Dexter Jackson swept away his competition and picked up a pro card at the 1998 North American Championships. Amy Pazzo and Kern Konyha also took the rite of passage into pro status.

Pictorials

  • BLONDE AMBITION
    Monica Brant smokes the competition in our exclusive readers poll to name the sport's sexiest female athlete. As a testament, we present a vintage pictorial of this blonde bombshell.

Performance Science

  • MASS MEDIA
    • Andro and Mark McGwire
    • A complete primer on Androstenedione
    • A post-mortem and the truth - on Florence Griffith Joyner.

  • THE WORD FROM THE STREET
    • Everything you wanted to now about creatine
    • Yohimbine as a fat burner

  • THE IRON EGGHEAD
    • Benefits of sprinting
    • A test for testosterone
    • A gripping piece on hormone bloat
    • and more…

  • TAKE THE "A" TRAIN
    Why Acetyl-L-Carnitine may increase testosterone production.

Posters:

  • MONICA BRANT

  • RONNIE COLEMAN

Nutrition:

  • ADVANCED NUTRITION
    • Coffee as a performance enhancing substance
    • Chromium as a fat burner
    • Milk and bodybuilding
    • The skinny on fat

  • PROTEIN PLUS
    Eight more reasons to pack protein into your diet.

  • THE ROUND TABLE
    One of our peripatetic scribes seeks out those in the know about how to pack muscle mass onto a frame.

Departments:

  • All Our Yesterdays
  • Ask Mr. Olympia
  • Ask Ms. Olympia
  • Editor's Page
  • Factoids
  • Flex Calendar Update
  • Flex n Femme
  • Future Flex
  • Hard Times
  • IFBB World Report
  • Musclehedz
  • NPC Report / Coming Events
  • Reader's Market
  • Reflexions
  • Street Scene
  • Style: Pariso Style
  • Talent Roundup
  • Talkback