| Article | Author | page |
|---|
| Editorial - Improve Your Health Through Proper Exercise | Bob Hoffman | 3 |
| Letters From Readers | | 7 |
| The Man on the Cover - Bob McCune | | 9 |
| 1949 World's Weightlifting Championships | Bob Hoffman | 10 |
| S. & H. Calendar - Armand Tanny | | 12 |
| Davis' Colossal Lifting in Paris ! | K D Arax | 13 |
| Check Developing Exercises | Jack Delinger | 14 |
| The Bulk Craze | John C Grimek | 15 |
| Barbelles | Abbye "Pudgy" Stockton | 16 |
| The Man and His Gym | Charles A Smith | 19 |
| Training for the Man Over Forty | Siegmund Klein | 20 |
| Self Improvement Heroes | Steve Stanko | 22 |
| Strongmen The World Over | Ray Van Cleef | 24 |
| Weightlifters Wanted ! | Bob Hoffman | 26 |
| Saxon Remembers | Kurt Saxon | 28 |
| Weightlifting News | | 47 |
| Coming Events | | 49 |
| Your Training Problems | John C Grimek | 50 |
