Cover Stories
- The 20 Greatest Physiques of the Past 65 Years: Join us as we celebrate year number 65, with our picks for the 20 best bodybuilding physiques of all time, including the man we tabbed as the all time best.
- Rock Hard Challenge 2004: Win by losing! Get in your best ever shape in jus three months. We provide the training and nutritional programs - and a $1,000 grand prize.
Bonus Section
- M&F Blueprint for Delts: Pull out our handy guide to developing broader shoulders in just six weeks. Includes everything you need - step by step instructions, exercises and a progressive training plan.
Training & Fitness
- Engineer Big Arms: Get your biceps training with top amateur bodybuilder Lionel Brown's iron pounding workout.
- Lift, Rest: Watch your muscle growth blast off with this technique; it allows you to complete a few more reps after you reach muscle failure bu taking only the briefest of pauses.
- Hams+Quads: Quit spinning your wheels with leg routines that don't get results. A pair of bodybulders reveal the training techniques they use to build big, freaky thighs.
- 45 Ways to Muscle Up: Think you know it all when it comes to training? Here are 45 all new, never before published tips from our top experts. Read them and grow.
- Hottest Body on the Planet: Simply divine Davana Medina shows how she sculpted the midsection that helped her claim the Figure Olympia.
Nutrition and Supplements
- ATP: Supplement Your Energy: This energy molecule powers you through your heavy workouts. Here's how to get more of it.
- 2 Step Chicken: Even if you're challeged in the kitchen, you can prepare a week's worth of high protein meals in just minutes.
Features
- Mr. Clean: When he's not cleaning up people's garbage, he's cleaning their souls. He also has a pretty good bench. Check out New York City's Joe Allegro.
- Whoa Kelly! There's nothing plastic about fitness buff Kelly Carlson who stars on FX Nip/Tuck.
- The New King: Unassuming? Humble? Quiet? What happened to King Kamali? We spent a couple of days with him to get to know the man who would be King.
Featured Departments
- Training Notebook
- Page One Workout: Build biceps mass and power with three kinds of curls.
- One Minute Lesson: Lats grow best with both pull ups and pulldowns.
- PullOut: One Legged Leg Press
- Target Training: Dealing with your inner self
- Power & Strength: Olympic ball moves
- Form vs. Fiction: Perfect technique for triumphant triceps
- Get It Right: Try doing the hack squat facing the pad.
- Training Table
- Cook Smart: Light your fare
- Recipe Doctor: Splitsville
- Muscle Fare: Not Your Mother's Meatloaf
- Nutrition Rx
- Case Study: Hard Times
- Nutrition Journal: Color code your veggies
Columns, Etc.
- Editorial: By Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Perspective: By Vincent Scalisi
- Feedback:
- Big Time: Edited by Steve Mazzucchi
- Hotline: Edited by Steve Mazzucchi
- The Edge: Edited by Jim Stoppani, PhD
- Ask Arnold: By Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Mind & Body: By Carey Rossi
- The Marketplace:
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