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. Art Dilkes and Mali Utz appear on the December 1997 cover.

Training:

• Arms with Authority: Here’s the routine that turned a pair of hardgainer arms into vascular sides of beef, along with tips on getting your bi’s and tri’s to fill out your shirt sleeves.
• Cory Everson’s Training Secrets: Part Two: Her former coach tells all!
• Critical Mass: The Myotatic Reflex and Fiber Activation
• EMG Exercise Analysis: Scientists give you the lowdown on Calf Exercises
• Exercise of the Month: Dumbbell Pullovers
• Fitness Formula: Fighting Fat by Sherry Goggin-Giardina
• Fundamentals: Trust Yourself
• Hardcore Training: Teddy Broussard Chisels Chest
• High Intensity: Chronology of a One Set Deadlift Routine
• Home Grown:
• Ironmind: In Charge of Champions
• Mass from the Past: Dave Dupre’
• Muscle Coach: Situps are Back! Part six!
• Muscle Soreness: Part Four
• New Studies on Growth Hormone Release
• Only the Strong Shall Survive: Warming Up
• Research Exclusive: Eccentric Exercise: Negative exercises triggers rapid size and strength surge, plus new studies on growth hormone release, and HMB-creatine stack study.
• Right Start: Can You Feel it?

Nutrition:

• Liquid Creatine:

Superfeature:

• X-Rep Static Contraction: Here’s the technique that’s giving bodybuilders everywhere unbelivable gains in mass and strength. How about more than 20 pounds of muscle in 10 weeks? That’s what one subject reported using this isometriclike method with a time progression factor.

Insight, Profiles, Contests:

• Art Dilkes
• Mel Rich & Bodyonics
• My First Half Century in the Iron Game: by Arthur Jones
• Contests: NPC USA

Departments:

• Editorial: Stronger, Happier, Healthier by John Balik
• Hot Shots: Candid Photos
• Interactive Bodybuilding
• Marketplace / Main Events
• News & Views by Lonnie Teper
• Nutrition Science: HMB + Creatine
• Point Counterpoint: Does more strength equal more size?
• Pump & Circumstances:
• Reader's Write: Letters to the editor
• Reviews: Road to the Olympia, Hardbodies
• Upside Down Bodybuilding: Metabolic Breakthrough