Since 1936, Ironman Magazine has been the magazine for bodybuilders. Each issue provides insights into bodybuilding, from nutrition, to lots of training info, to profiles on the men and women who make up the bodybuilding and fitness world. It also contains excellent pictures and information on almost anything you need.

Training:

• Compound Arm Training
• Continuous Tension: Counting reps can be hazardous to your gains. You should be concentrating on the target muscle, creating optimal tension and striving for total muscular contractions. This may be the answer you've been looking for to blast past your plateaus.
• Exercise of the Month: Deadlifts
• Hardcore Training: Janet Marchi attacks Quads
• High Intensity: Jeff Blithe
• Home Grown: Machine-free Calf Training
• Inside Bodybuilding: Ron Coleman's Delts
• Ironmind: Plunge in for progress
• Muscle Coach: Situps are back! Part 2
• Only the Strong Shall Survive: Strength training and the young athlete - a must reading for all mentors, big brothers, trainers, coaches, and of course, youngsters looking for more strength.
• POF (Positions of Flexion): Multi-angular training for full development
• Q&A: Overtraining
• Stay Grounded for Bigger Guns
• Superiority of Dumbbells: More and more bodybuilders are choosing dumbbells over barbells and machines and for good reasons: more muscle stimulation, from stabilizers to prime movers. Here are the reason 'bells work so well along with a complete size building dumbbell only routine.
• Ted Arcidi's Rise from the Ashes, Part 2
• Training Secrets: Exploiting your maximum potential
• Upside down bodybuilding: Metabolic Work
• Will Willis' Drug Free Arm Assault
• Women Need Weight Training

Nutrition:

• Breaking Research: The Steroid Cholesterol Connection

Superfeature:

• Big Arms: Here is a science based strategy with all the ingredients for ultimate arm mass: the best exercises according to MRI analysis, max fiber recruitment and growth jolting supersets. Try it and soon people will think you have 20 pound hams stuffed in your shirtsleeves.

Insight:

• My First Half Century in the Iron Game: by Arthur Jones
• State of Competitive Bodybuilding, Part 9

Contests:

• IFBB Ironman Pro Invitational

Departments:

• Body Gourmet: Just Stew It
• Editorial: by John Balik
• Hot Shots: Candid Photos
• Marketplace / Main Events
• News & Views by Lonnie Teper
• Nutrition Science: Your nutrition questions answered
• Pump & Circumstances:
• Reader's Write
• Reviews: Weight Training Technique, "Sexy Swimsuit Spectacular #2", and Steve Reeves' new book.