Cover: Bill Pearl excelled at traditional feats of strength, such as tearing license plates.
Departments
- Hometown Heros by Randall J. Strossen, Ph.D.
- Letters to the Editor
- From the Trenches: Great Stones by Timothy J. Piper
- Iron Filings
- Captains of Crush Grippers: Who's New
- Calendar
- The Iron Mine
People
- Bill Pearl: Iron Icon--Part II by Marty Gallagher
Training
- Sled Work by Rob Haan
- Just Another Day at the Office: Successful Daily Training by Fred Hutchinson
- The Slaying of Goliath: Bending a Red Nail by John Brookfield
- Back Pain for Dummies by Ernest Roy PT
- Lipids: They're in Our Genes, on Our Plates, and on Our Minds by William L. Crawford MD
- Truck Tire Leverage Lift by Steve Justa
- The Art of Coaching Weightlifting for Beginners by John Drewes
- Odd Objects Only by Collin Moshman
- Three Photos That Changed My Weightlifting Life by Dionysis Metaxas
- Life in the Loft: A Byrd's-Eye View of Training by Dr. Ken E. Leistner
- Arm Specialization by John McCallum
- The Return of the Push-up by Yehoshua Zohar
- At the Table: The Brzenk Thumb Roll by Leonard Harkless
- Taboo Exercises for Strength Athletes by Bill Starr
- A Philosophy: Why Men Should Weight Lift by Steven Helmicki
- Working Out on the Road by Jim Schmitz
Contests
- No-shows, Bomb-outs, Injuries, and Victories in Vancouver: 2003 World Weightlifting Championships by Jim Schmitz
- All-Round Recap by Lee Gesbeck
- Many Upsets at the 2004 Men's International Powerlifting Federation World Championships by Wade Gillingham
- Mariusz Pudzianowski Takes Record Win at the 2003 World's Strongest Man by Colin Bryce
History
- The Classic Figure of Austrian Weightlifting: Josef Swoboda by Gherardo Bonini
- Russian Men of Might: Grigori Novak by Joseph Svub
- Past and Present by Peter Martin
128 pp.
No. 1282-11.4 (.5 lb.) $7.95
2025