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March 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 Monica Brant.

March 1999 - Table of Contents
Volume 17, Number 1

Bodybuilding:

  • IT TAKES GUTS
    Redesign your midsection in nine mind boggling weeks with this step by step makeover. By Flex Wheeler

  • THE BUILDING BLOCKS
    In this riveting FLEX exclusive, we present a chapter from Dorian Yate's new book, A Portrait of Dorian Yates, the Life and Training Philosophy of the World's Best Bodybuilding.

  • IN THE TRENCHES
    Mass Production. The bedrock of bodybuilding in one clever missive.

  • THE THINKING MAN'S TREASURE CHEST
    This way to bigger pecs, friend; simple, pragmatic and effective training advice from top to bottom. By Milos Sarcev

  • COUNT TO 100, THEN GROW!
    An ode to the benefits of the 100 reps per set system of training.

  • H.U.G.E.: WEIGHT = MASS
    Big weights build big muscles. A course in concrete logic for bodybuilders of every ilk. By Patrick Lynn.

Features:

  • THE BIG PICTURE
    The Dave Draper Files.

Contests

  • A STAGE IN FULL
    More than 150 male athletes went toe-to-toe at the 1998 NPC Nationals in Atlanta. In a close call, heavyweight Jason Arntz popped out from the crowd of six champions to land the knockout punch and grab the overall title.

  • RAGANOT TO RICHES
    Brenda Raganot, the best thing to come out of Seattle since Soundgarden, dominated 47 women to lay claim to the overall women's title at the 1998 NPC Nationals.

  • BEWARE THE MINITOUR
    The 1998 European Grand Prix was short, sweet and very strange indeed.

Pictorials

  • SPRING FEVER
    Our fourth annual swimsuit special harkens back to the words of Alfred, Lory Tennyson: "A simple maiden in her flower is worth a hundred coats of arms." We generously provide a bounty of photos to defend this ribald roll of the tongue.

  • THE THING WITH FOUR LEGS
    Gunter Schlierkamp and Kevin Levrone form a never before seen legion of limbs.

Performance Science

  • THE WORD FROM THE STREET
    Vitamins C and E can help prevent excessive muscle breakdown.

  • THE IRON EGGHEAD
    This month's lineup include
    • Algae as a muscle food
    • Andro and Weight Gain
    • Garlic and metabolism

  • MUSCLEHEADS AT LOGGERHEADS: THE CHRYSIN DEBATE
    Does Chrysin work as a performance enhancer? Our experts duke it out in search of the truth.

Posters:

  • TIMEA MAJOROVA / KATHY JOHANSSON

  • BARBARA MORAN / LAURIE VANIMAN

Nutrition:

  • ADVANCED NUTRITION
    • Preventing fat absorption
    • Empty calories vs. nutrient density
    • Pyruvate as a fat burner
    • Protein's effect on Calcium metabolism
    • Provocative muscle morsels

  • THE CARB RULES
    Eleven helpful hints about carbs: the good, the bad and the bizarre.

  • THE ROUND TABLE
    One of our inquiring scribes talks to the champs about nutritional strategies for attaining goals.

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: Coates Style
  • Swimsuit Buyers Guide
  • Talkback