Flex Magazine UK Edition - UK | August 2014

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I Am Not A Weightlifter by TONY MONCHINSKI
The Look. Off-season, Kai Greene looks like a 300-pound Michelin Man in red sweats and a red hoodie. Pre-contest, Greene looks like a 275-pound Michelin Man in red sweats and a red hoodie. But when the sweats come off, it’s pounds and pounds of ripped, grainy muscle. You’re left blinking—in the gym when he’s there, in the audience at the Olympia—left to wonder how a man has packed that much muscle onto a human frame, and doubting he can pack on more. But you know not to doubt Greene. He has a track record of proving doubters wrong.

Fire It Up by DAVID SANDLER
Feeling whacked after busting your gut day in and day out? If you’re grinding away at your training programme and noticing that between your hardcore cutting diet and your amped up training routine, you’re running out of energy, it’s likely because you’ve slowed down or, better yet, outpaced your metabolism. I’d be hard-pressed to say that anyone with a decent amount of muscle could possibly have a slow metabolism, but most certainly your metabolism does change as your body changes. What’s more, is that it’s not as simple as just working out harder and hoping to boost it. If it were that easy, well, you’d already have an explosive metabolism and wouldn’t need to read any further.

Head And Shoulders Above by GREG MERRITT
Let’s say you’re Mr Olympia. Just dream for a minute. Your life is a whirlwind of airports and interviews and strange gyms in stranger places. And all the while, you’re a marked man. You’ve got the title everyone wants, so the world’s other best bodybuilders are gunning for you workout after workout, meal after meal. What do you do? How did you stay on top for three years, and how do you stay there for at least one more? Two ways. You eliminate, as best you can, your weaknesses—those areas your closest competition could possibly exploit. And you enhance your strengths—those areas you can exploit over those same top contenders.

Also in this issue
30 I Am Not A Weightlifter
42 Head And Shoulders Above
54 The Streak
62 Beyeke’s Back Blowout
70 True Grit
92 Right Down The Middle
98 Fire It Up
80 Back In The Big Time
138 News
140 Fast Mover
142 Murphy’s Law
144 Ryan Terry
148 Looking Back
12 Welcome
14 Arnold’s Page
16 It’s Only My Opinion
20 Hard Times
106 Gym Bag
116 Advanced Nutrition
118 Big Ass Mass
120 Lift Strong
122 Advanced Bodybuilding
124 The Diet Doc
126 Hardcore Nutrition
128 The Freak Speaks!
132 European Muscle
156 Under The Microscope
158 Bodybuilder of The Month
160 The Shot