Training & Fitness

66 Break Through to a Better You
Attain a beach-ready physique with 97 explosive tips to bust through any training plateau.

BY JIM STOPPANI, PhD, AND JON FINKEL

86 Fine-Tune Your Legs in Four Weeks
You can train your legs and then you can train your legs. Big difference. This monthlong routine does the latter to make you bigger and stronger.

BY JIMMY PENA, MS, CSCS

160 The Smith Smackdown
From the muscleandfitness.com message boards, we give you the hottest debate in 2008: What's the Smith machine good for?

BY JON FINKEL, JIMMY PENA, MS, CSCS and THE MEMBERS OF muscleandfitness.com

184 Fire Up Your Delts
Amateur bodybuilder and professional firefighter Steve Kuclo builds big shoulders with this red-hot routine.

BY LARA MCGLASHAN

198 Lats Like Lado's
Shapely lats and steel traps keep IFBB figure pro Mary Elizabeth Lado near the top of the figure world.

BY JON FINKEL

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Special Section
110 Rock-Hard Challenge 2008, Month 2
Your physique transformation is under way! Keep the gains coming with the complete training program for the next phase of our three-month challenge, loaded with muscle-building intensity and fat-burning cardio. It's built for anyone seeking a lean, strong body.
By Joe Wuebben, program by Jimmy Peña, MS, CSCS

124 Rock-Hard Diet, Month 2
Fight fat and craft lean muscle 24/7 with this nutrition plan. Although it's specially designed for those taking on the Rock-Hard Challenge, it's a powerful plan for anyone training for their best body ever.
By Jim Stoppani, PhD

244 The Rock-Hard Challenge Rules
Ready to put your results to the test? Find out how you can enter to become the 2008 Rock-Hard male or female champion and earn yourself a $2,500 grand prize in the process.

Features

132 The Muscle Doctrine
Who knew that behind the mild-mannered professionalism of Celebrity Rehab's Dr. Drew there lurks an old-school gym rat with biceps bigger than his clients' heads?

BY MARK THORPE

170 Reel Muscle
Rocky training scenes are the gold standard in cinematic muscle, but we've ranked nine sequences that offer stiff competition.

BY JON FINKEL


FEATURED DEPARTMENTS
212 Training Notebook
Workout of the Month: Detail Day By Jimmy Peña, MS, CSCS
Pimp My Workout: Find the Fatigue By Joe Wuebben
Power & Strength: Sizing Up the Sumo By Sean Waxman, CSCS
Strength Lab: Pulled in All Directions By Jim Stoppani, PhD
Kinesiology: Reverse Smith Front Squat By David Sandler, MS, CSCS
Ask Arnold: Back Drop By Arnold Schwarzenegger

234 Nutrition Notebook
What's Your Q? BY JIM STOPPANI, PhD
How & Whey BY TABITHA ELLIOTT, PhD


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COLUMNS, ETC.
20 Masthead
24 On the Web
26 Editorial BY PETER MCGOUGH
28 Perspective BY JOE WEIDER
32 Feedback/Success Stories
36 The Edge EDITED BY BY JIM STOPPANI, PhD, AND MARK THORPE
50 Big Time EDITED BY MARK THORPE
242 Industry Beat
250 The Marketplace
256 Strong Words BY JON FINKEL

Nutrition

102 Four-Alarm Foods
The next time you're faced with choosing chow from a vending machine, the movies or a fast-food joint, choose right with this guide to the best of the worst.
BY JORDANA BROWN

146 Shake Up Your Growth
Mixing a protein shake may seem elementary on many levels, but add the wrong thing at the wrong time and you create obstacles to growth. Here's how to get bigger and stronger one shake at a time.
BY JORDANA BROWN

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