May 1996 Muscle & Fitness issue features articles on how to lose 10 lbs of fat for good, 13 ways to faster muscle gains, and one user's frightening wake up call on steroids. Also, an excellent interview with Shawn Ray, and Jay Cutler's shoulder workout.
Muscle & Fitness is considered to be the best of the bodybuilding magazines. It contains lots of information about the principles of fitness & bodybuilding. Each monthly magazine usually contains information about weight training, nutrition, training, bodybuilding and many other topics that are current in the bodybuilding and fitness world. Muscle & Fitness is more of a mainstream bodybuilding magazine, which has excellent articles and pictures.
Cover Stories | |
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Story Title | Description |
Explosive Delts | Faster than a speeding bullet, Jay Cutler's shoulder workout makes use of dynamite movements for big caps. |
Keep Passion Alive | When the flames start to die, it's time to recharge your love life |
Lose 10 Pounds of Fat | A 60 day, step by step guide to losing bodyfat safely and permanently. |
Heavy Doodie? | Mike Mintzer's training strategies aren't quite what they seem. |
Pushing Beyond Your Sticking Point | Every bodybuilder reaches a training plateau in which strength and muscle gains literally stop. Here are 13 ways to get growing again. |
Bodybuilding 101 | No More Mr. Stickman: Building a wide bodied physique is as easy as pull ups and laterals. |
A Little Terror | One steroid user's frightening wake up call. |
Training | |
Accentuate the Negative | Now's the time to start thinking negatives, eccentric movements, that is, for positive gains. |
The One Legged Approach | Try this unusual method of quad and hamstrings training, working each leg independently. |
The Weider Principles: Cheating is only an expression | When strict form can hold back your muscle gains. |
Full Blown Legs | Tips for building a powerful lower body from one of the world's top ranked bodybuilders. By Kevin Levrone |
Features | |
Heavy Breathing | Exercising outdoors poses risks besides a sunburn. Airborne pollutants can be hazardous to your health, and training. |
Just (Don't) Do It | Are you compulsive about training? Take our test and see |
Interview with Shawn Ray | One of the sport's most candid athletes speaks out |
Lightweights | More funny photos from the historic collection of David Chapman |
Will This David Slay Goliath? | Changes in diet, training and attitude have mode David Dearth ready to take on all comers |
Exercise & Aging Update | M&F's continuing coverage of the largest study on longevity and physical fitness |
Nutrition | |
Getting Juiced | Some new ideas to spice up that old bodybuilding favorite, the protein shake. |
Questions on Vanadium | M&F roundtable with three expert's on one of the sport's hottest supplements |
Cooking for Dummies | Even dumbbells can learn to cook healthfully. By Laura Creavalle. |
Women | |
Dying To Be Thin | If losing weight has become an obsession, you may be risking serious illness. Learn how to recognize and remedy eating. |
Biceps By Bass | This former bodybuilding champ is ready for the fitness scene with a whole new look, and training regimen. Here's a peek at her biceps program that build's shape, not size. |
Bodybuilding Advisory | |
Ask America's Personal Trainer | You Gotta have Variety. By Tony Little |
Larry Scott | Variations for a Bigger Chest |
Nutrition Journal | Men & Osteoporosis |
Cory's Corner | Get a Little 'Behind' in your Workouts. By Cory Everson |
Cutting Edge | |
Sports Medicine | Lifting in Pain? |
Vitamin Corner | Choline & L-Carnitine |
Recuperation | A Soothing Sauna |