Muscle & Fitness Magazine
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November 1997
Muscle & Fitness is considered to be the best of the non-hardcore 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. The fitness competitor on the cover is Clark Bartram and Jennifer Goodwin, photographed by Kal Yee.
November 1997 Table of Contents
Training:
- Pressing Forward: New Jersey once again produced a USA class champion, this time light heavyweight Jason Arntz. Here’s how he built one of the amateur ranks’ best chests.
- The Weider Principles: Iso-Tension: Whether you strut your stuff onstage or off, flexing and posing is one key to achieving muscle separation and detail.
- Bodybuilding 101: 6 Best Exercises for Chest: You don’t have to head to the bench press first thing to build a full, thick barrel chest. Change up your routine with these proven mass builders.
- Size vs. Strength: The practical science behind manipulating the variables of volume, intensity and exercise selection in your workouts. Try our customized training cycles to build both size and strength.
- Guns at Large: Canadian colossus Greg Kovacs reveals his secrets for building a pair of the world’s most massive biceps.
- Get It Right: Bent-Over Row: Here’s the right way to build your erectors, lats and traps.
Features:
- Conan Returns: Former Mr. Universe Ralf Moeller muscled his way into Hollywood, and now he’s stepping into Arnold’s shoes to bring Conan to prime time TV.
- Not Just for Kicks: A total training routine to help you score big on the soccer field, plus tips from top athletes Mia Hamm and Brian McBride.
- The Battle of Broadway: An eye-popping array of women bodybuilders and fitness competitors will pose and dance the night away as the Ms. Olympia and Fitness Olympia coverage upon New York City.
- The Dating Game: Looking for Mr. or Ms. Right? One expert’s winning strategies can help you keep the fire burning after that first hot date.
- The Skinny on Liposuction: It may be one of the top cosmetic surgery procedures in the United States, but liposuction isn’t a care all for the less than perfect physique.
- Anti-Aging Strategies: On a mission to outmuscle Father Time? The latest research can help.
- Built for Power: Top amateur bodybuilders and fitness competitors at Hoover Dam.
- New Bodybuilding Discoveries from the World’s Leading Experts:
- GHB: How B-A-D is it? You’re in the dark ages if you think this dangerous drug could improve your physique. Too many people have suffered its deadly effects.
Nutrition:
- Beef is Back! Mooove over, chicken and fish! When it’s low-fat, high-protein red meat isn’t a bum steer.
- Nutrition 101: Basic Strategies for Getting Lean: Customized programs, meals and menus to help you lose fat now.
- Glutamine: The Superstars of Supplements: The jack of all trades amino acid may be a bodybuilder’s best buy.
Personality:
- Raw Beef: Top fitness competitor and guest editor Carol Semple-Marzetta asks all the tough questions of defending Ms. Olympia Kim Chizevsky in this candid interview.
Women:
- Spice It Up!: IFBB fitness pro Susie Curry’s dynamic leg-shaping routine.
Departments:
- Editorial: The Workout vs. Willpower by Joe Weider
- Perspective: by Tom Deters
- Feedback:
- Success Stories: Muscling in on Crohn’s Disease
- Hotline:
- Mind in Bodybuilding: Lifting the performance barbell
- Body by Betty: Home, Sweet Home Office
- Training Notebook: Standing leg Curl
- Training Notebook: Kinesiology
- Training Notebook: Advanced Training with Mr. Olympia
- Lab Notes: Satellite Cells
- Bodybuilding Science: Fire up your metabolism ... Of Mice, Men and the Juice ... Choosing the right carbs & fat...
- Ask Arnold: Putting Size on Thighs
- Nutrition Journal: Carbs - a complex subject
- Muscle Fare: Asian Beef Magic
- Cutting Edge: Sports Medicine: Don’t let shoulder pain stop you.
- Cutting Edge: Vitamin Corner: The Complexities of Vitamin C
- One Minute Lesson: Heel Elevation in the Squat
- The Marketplace:
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