Flex Magazine UK Edition - UK | November 2013

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Features in this issue include...
Back And Forth With The Gift by GREG MERRITT Phil Heath took the bodybuilding world by storm in 2005 and 2006. Yet, amid all the praise for his various strengths—those arms, those lines, those round muscle bellies—there was always some mention of his greatest weakness: “Yeah, but can he ever get enough back size to win the Mr Olympia?"
Shattering The Competition by ROBBIE DURAND In the late ’80s and early ’90s, two bodybuilders earned their pro cards and became immediate threats for the Mr Olympia title: Dorian Yates and Flex Wheeler. Yates, a six-time Mr Olympia, turned pro at the 1988 British Championships and captured second place at his first Mr Olympia in 1991. Wheeler turned pro at the NPC USA Championships in 1992. He placed second at his first Olympia in 1993.
Lewis Lashes Legs by MICHAEL BERG “I’ve never been a big squatter, to be honest," says Flex Lewis. Yes, the bodybuilder whose signature calling card is his giant-slaying quads and hamstrings—he with thighs so dominant he had to essentially take a year off training them hard not once in his career, but twice, to allow his upper body to catch up—doesn’t make much use of the so-called king of all exercises. Also in this issue 30 Back And Forth With The Gift 42 Lewis Lashes Legs 62 Volume Training: Old Method, New Angle 86 H.U.G.E.®: Iso-Tension 52 Generation Iron 78 Shattering The Competition 100 British Championships Quiz 108 Age of Intensity 140 Phil Heath: The Gift Unwrapped 142 Mamdouh Elssbiay: Big Ramy 144 Flex Lewis: The Welsh Dragon\'s Lair 146 Shawn Rhoden: Flexatron 147 Roelly Winklaar: The Dutch Beast 148 Fouad Abiad: The Hoss 150 Michael Liberatore 152 Erik Fankhouser: The House 153 Ben Pakulski: Pak-Man 154 Kai Greene: Kai\'s Corner 10 Editorial 12 Arnold’s Page 14 It’s Only My Opinion 16 Hard Times 26 Home Scene 72 Get Big Column 92 From The Trenches 118 Gym Bag 124 Advanced Nutrition 128 Big Ass Mass 130 Lift Strong 132 Advanced Bodybuilding 134 Hardcore Nutrition 136 Ask The Guru 138 Only The Strong 156 Looking Back 164 ET Column 172 Under The Microscope 176 The Shot