Muscular Development Magazine
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April 2000

Muscular Development, owned by Twinlab, is another serious bodybuilder magazine that concentrates on natural bodybuilding, but also covers fitness and health related items. They pride themselves on giving its readers extensive coverage on the cutting edge of training, diet and nutrition articles. It also has great pictures of bodybuilders, and makes for enjoyable reading. The look of natural bodybuilding and less on the hardcore look is what Muscular Development stands for. With everything geared towards the natural look, it continues to attack steroids, drugs, etc. On the cover is Laila Ali.


April 2000 Table of Contents
Volume 37, Number 4

Training

  • MD TRAINING CAMP
    millennium maneuvers: The total body blitz-phase III.

  • SPORT SPECIFIC TRAINING
    Packing power punches: Training for boxing.

  • XPLOSIVE TRAINING
    Plyometrics to power your performance.

  • MUSCLE FORM + FUNCTION
    Peaking your biceps.

  • CARDIO Q&A
    What is runners diarrhead? Do aerobically active individuals need to take mineral supplements?

  • BY THE EXPERTS Q&A
    Is it possible to put on 25-30 pounds of lean muscle mass in two months? How can you increase the metabolic intensity of your training?

Nutrition

  • NUTRITION BYTES
    Veggies help lower prostate cancer; Olive oil can cut arthritis risk; Red meat need not be avoided.

  • SUPPLEMENT BYTES
    Carbohydrates role in replenishing Glycogen; GBL causing medical problems' Andro: no increase in lean body mass, strength or testosterone.

  • SUPPLEMENT PERFORMANCE
    Rating protein: Which is best?

  • NUTRITION PERFORMANCE
    Should you add HMB to your training table?

  • EAT TO WIN
    Albacore tuna skillet dinner

  • MUSCLE SHAKES
    Romano's favorites: Cinnamon Toast Crunch and Creamy Caramello.

Fat Loss

  • FAT LOSS BYTES
    Smoking boosts energy expenditure; Fat hormone linked to brain's pleasure center; Eggs may soon be diet food; Think about sex for self control in dieting' Green Tea helps burn fat

  • FAT ATTACK
    Chitosan: Fat trapper or money snatcher?

Health & Fitness

  • FITNESS BYTES
    Guidelines for dynamic stretching; What's hot and getting hotter?; health club for the 21st century; Top weight loss blunders

  • SPORT MEDICINE BYTES
    Posterior cruciate ligament injury; Exercise may help leg pain; Knee injuries and surgery; Ibuprofen and GI distress; Anti-inflammatories for muscle injury

  • HEALTH BYTES
    Every cigarette cuts life 11 minutes; New drugs for sexual dysfunction; Mental illness that drives bodybuilders

  • SPORTS SCIENCE
    Steroids rip tendons

Inside Angles

  • HOME PAGE
    Muscular Development packs a punch

  • CHAT ROOM
    Where our readers rave and rant! Including No Bulk, no hulk; On the mark; Cortisone confucsion; Tantra tantrum; Gneder Jolt;

  • FIT AND FAMOUS
    Diet of the stars; Thunderbolt licker; Damme Exercise! Hot shortstops; Thighing out; Hanging in there;

  • FIT HOT BABES
    Pictorial: Sexy, strong and sculted - women who work at it!

  • HOT SHOPPE

  • BYTE ME
    Requiem for Dan

Features

  • COVER STORY: ALL POWER LAILA ALI
    Madame Butterfly - the new shape of boxing.

  • TEN TIPS FOR RAZOR SHARP TRICEPS

  • MICHAEL GRANT: BEST BUILT HEAVYWEIGHT

  • TURN UP THE HEAT ON FAT LOSS
    Building muscle to stoke the metabolic fires.

  • GROWTH HORMONE'S GREAT DISAPPEARING ACT