Cover: Marcio Barboza locks horns with Eric Woelfel for the right-hand super heavyweight title at the over-the-top arm wrestling contest held at the Boomtown Casino and Hotel (Verdi, Nevada).
Departments
- The House That Jim Built by Randall J. Strossen, Ph.D.
- Letters to the Editor
- From the Trenches: When Your Body Speaks, Listen by Frank Maurer
- Iron Filings
- Red Nail Roster
- Captains of Crush Grippers: Who's New
- Calendar
- The Iron Mine
People
- Nely Yankova, Bulgarian Weightlifting Prodigy by Michael Cayton
- Jean-Pierre Brulois, the Son of Apollon by Emmanuel Legeard
Training
- Decisions, Strategies, and Tactics by Ernie Roy PT, CSCS
- Walking Through Walls Training--Part 2: Transformation by Steven Helmicki
- Vege-Body: The Vegetarian Strength Athlete by Charles Fraser
- Stone Lifting Primer by Thom Van Vleck with Eric Todd
- What We Do Before Christmas Dictates Where We Finish in May by Ashley Jones
- The Right Way by John McCallum
- Penance Stone By Steven Helmicki
- For a Kung-Fu Grip by Fred Hutchinson
- At the Table: The Post Move by Leonard Harkless
- Two Birds with One Stone by John Brookfield
- Out of the Box: Alternative Training for the Heavy Events by Greg Bean
- The Heart of a Warrior by William L. Crawford MD
- Training the Back Lift by Steve Justa
- Speed Kills...So Ham It Up By Steven Morris
- What Science Has to Say about Training Variables by Roh Haan
- Life in the Loft: Beaming in on Backs by Dr. Ken E. Leistner
Contests
- Boomtown: A Perfect Place to Rediscover a Gem: The 53rd Annual World Wrist Wrestling Championships by Denise Wattles
- All-Rounders Finish Up Year in Style by Lee Gesbeck
- Head-to-Head Heavyweights: 2004 World's Strongest Man Contest by Colin Bryce
History
- Weightlifting at the 1976 Olympic Games of Lessons from Lee and Smitty by John Drewes
- The First Hors-Clas Italian Champion: Enrico Scuri by Gherardo Bonini
- Russian Men of Might: Nikader Vakhturov by Josef Svub
- Jackson Weightlifting Club: After Work Smoker by Thom Van Vleck
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