Flex Magazine

Pros: Lots of ad revenue for the publisher, a few good tidbits on nutrition
Cons: Ads, chemical supplements, lots of chemical supplements, photography for awe effect

One look at the cover of Flex magazine and it becomes obvious that the creation of muscleman extraordinaire Joe Weider had a vision for body builders.  With big guns and its hefty 300 plus page size, this is the big daddy of weightlifting ...

Pros: The only magazine for serious weightlifters
Cons: Intimidating, "sex factor"

So You Wanna Get Big???

Flex magazine is the only magazine for hard-core bodybuilders and power lifters. Forget Men's Fitness, Muscular Development and the other knockoffs. If you want twenty-two inch pythons for arms, Flex is the...

Pros: Much info, nice pics
Cons: none

For this Magazine I could basically write the same thing that I did for Muscle and Fitness. Only there are some major differences. Flex seems to be geared toward males who are serious about body building. The nice girl pics are a very nice part of flex....

Pros: Good informative magazine
Cons: Takes attention away from me (his girlfriend)

As the girlfriend of a very committed body builder, Flex magazine is like the bible to my boyfriend. Every grocery store or 7-eleven we stop at, he just has to take a peak. Well a little peak to me must not be the same for him because we could sit...

Pros: Excellent photos, contest coverage, and cutting-edge research reporting.
Cons: Downright dangerous training advice.

Being an experienced bodybuilder myself, formerly running a business as an IFBB-certified Personal Trainer, and now weekly columnist in Bodybuilding & Fitness at www.suite101.com (under sports/recreation, in case you're curious) since two years, I...

Pros: Devoted to hardcore bodybuilding
Cons: Only comes out once a month.

Flex is a great magazine for the serious/competitive bodybuilder. From nutrition, supplements, scientific research, training advice, to biographies of current champions, and historical articles of strongmen of years past, Flex is the bible of muscle....

Pros: Contest Coverage, Articles, Photos
Cons: lots of advertisements (if you can call that a "con"=)

Flex Magazine is one of a whole slew of Muscle magazines out there, but there is a few things that sets it FAR apart from the crowd. First off, Its owned by Joe Weider...the MASTER BLASTER! Everything Joe has ever done or made has been top of the line,...

Pros: Excellent photography, best coverage of IFBB events.
Cons: Pro-drug stance, lack of useful info for average people, focus on genetic freaks.

Flex is one of the Weider Empire's most popular publication. Weider mags run the gamut of fitness, male- and female-focused, from non-threatening to the accountant who wants to get in shape (Men's Fitness), through serious, long-term bodybuilder (Muscle...

Pros: 3 time Mr. Olympia 77, 78 and 79 Frank Zane with his wife Christina.
Cons: I would love to see more stuff on people like this.

Is the physical form really suppose to look like the model on the cover of the current issue? I would rather see more information published on men that look like Bill Goldberg. His body looks all natural to me and does not have the same likeness of the...

Pros: Tons of tips, pictures, news, contests
Cons: To many ads

If you are into hardcore bodybuilding I recommend getting this magazine and reviewing the articles in it. This magazine uses some of the top bodybuilders in the world for their magazine. They get names like Ronnie Coleman and Dorian Yates to give their...

Pros: GREAT TECHNIQUES AND ARTICLES
Cons: GEARED MOR FOR THE EXPERIENCED

To start I would like to tell you I have been reading this magazine on and off for about five years.I find the magazine to be an excellent motivational tool.when you start feeling like your workouts aren't working look at some of these guys or girls and...

Pros: Tons of show and competition coverage
Cons: Hard to find articles, too many adds, too many pictures

Flex is the most over-rated bodybuilding magazine on the market. First off the layout of the magazine makes it difficult to find what you want without thumbing through pages of filler. There are few new or different exercises offered in the magazine....

Pros: This magazine can give you and unrealistic goal
Cons: bodybuilding the wrong way for the wrong goal

I can't stand these types of magazines that depict body building in an unhealthy way. The only reason you should go to the gym is to get healthy, and feel good. I can't imagine taking steroids like the men in this magazine obviously do, to cause your...

Pros: BEST OUT THERE
Cons: TOO MUCH B.S.

Flex offers many great pictorials and occasionally gives good advice but they only print original lifting routines once a year in their training issue. Every other routine is just a common knowledge routine. Also this magazine has a ton of adds, I mean...

Pros: Lots of information
Cons: Need some pics

I love this magazine I read the articles the ad's the lil codes everything like a
machine I read it daily every second. I love the Mr.
Olympia...