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 Self
ASIN: B00005NIOS
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: This is an awesome mag!
Comments: Lots of fitness magazines are always getting off topic! This magazine stays totally on the topic of fitness. However, not only does it talk about fitness, but also health! The pages showing women who have succeeded in weight loss are really encouraging, and I also like all of the healthy tips on foods and exercises. Every time I see a very healthy person on the cover it inspires me! The magazine also has very good clothing pages too! A very good buy as one of my favorite fitness magazines!
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 Shape
ASIN: B00005N7SN
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: Teaches Enlightenment In Your Own Beauty
Comments: I've always been a very physically active person.. I like to run and I like to work out.. but fitness magazines for women tend to be one way or the other: "Don't bother with weight loss, find inner peace with Yoga!" or "How Many Pieces of Lettuce You Can Eat A Day To Look Like Janet Jackson." Sure, it's mildly entertaining to look into varieties on either side now and then, but what about those of us who want some recipes, PRACTICAL training tips and quick workout guides?
Shape magazine stresses the points that I think are most important in a women's fitness magazine. It offers inspiring weightloss stories, quick (and edible) meals, and fun workouts to boost your regular ones along. And while some of the workout tips CAN get repetitive, just remember.. there are only so many different ways to do a sit-up. Readers of any and ALL fitness magazines know that they usually have the same exercise tips to offer over and over.
Shape encourages and enlightens. It shows a way to incorporate exercise into any lifestyle and gives you the encouragement to continue an exercise regimen-- no matter how sedentary you are.
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 Fitness
ASIN: B00005N7Q6
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: All Around EXCELLENT...
Comments: I really do love this magazine. I also subscribe to Shape - but I find I get more real-life use out of my Fitness subscription. It has countless tips, tricks, information, suggestions and tons of recipes each issue.
Sure, the gals in the magazine are thin - but most are muscular and FIT and make you want to strive and keep working hard toward your goals...
It's a REAL magazine for us REAL (and realistic) girls.
Add it to your cart (or your Wish List!) - you'll be very happy that you did.
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 Men's Fitness
ASIN: B00005N7RC
Customer's Rating: 4
Summary: The best of the current Muscle Mags
Comments: With so many "resources" out there these days for building muscle, losing fat, and getting in the best shape of your life, it's tough to match the gym mindset to a single magazine. Men's Fitness has won me over with its simpler approach, and realistic outlook on physique building.
Easy-to-follow workout plans, valuable product recommendations and common sense diet and nutrition advice has made Men's Fitness my magazine of choice. You won't find inflated, juiced up bodybuilders in these pages (thankfully), nor will you be overloaded with sexual advice and sales pitch after pitch (like that other Men's _____). Instead, you'll pick up valuable advice on broadening shoulders, improving your focus, and getting good clean foods incorporated into your lifestyle.
Each month I pick up a couple of valuable tips out of this magazine, and usually wind up tweaking my workout slightly based on a tip the editors have provided. That makes my investment in Men's Fitness more than worthwhile. If you are serious about weight training, and looking for a magazine devoted to that purpose, Men's Fitness is the best of the bunch
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 Runner's World
ASIN: B00005NIOR
Customer's Rating: 4
Summary: Monthly Motivation
Comments: Runner's world is a very traditional magazine with geared towards mostly a middle-aged audience. The authors manage to give the same advice every month and make it sound different. That may be one of the things that makes this magazine so motivational. I keep reading about people who have run every day for the last fifty years or who run in 30 below weather, and I wonder what's keeping me off the roads.
The Rave Run two page spread photographs are lovely. They each show a runner in a really cool environment with a quote. I have some of them hanging on my wall. I get especially motivated by the one of a man running through the woods when the trees are coated with ice and the ground blanketed with snow. It looks so beautiful, who wouldn't want to go out and run. The ask the expert or QandA section has the most diverse and informative information from month to month mostly because the questions come from readers and the answers come for a variety of experts. The nutrition section isn't particularly useful. The science seems simplified to the point that it isn't exactly true, and the suggested menu for one of the carbohydrate dinners starts out with 1 cup broiled swordfish along with five or six other things; not really practical in my opinion.
Runner's World has a nice coverage of racing events past (results) and future (racing calendars), and my hometown of Boulder, CO is mentioned somewhere at least once per issue :). Runner's World encourages everyone to be a winner even if he or she doesn't finish first. It is full of tips for beginners just staring to run and more advance information about training for seasoned amateurs. Some of the information is useful and some is not, but there is enough useful information to make reading worthwhile.
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 Muscle and Fitness
ASIN: B00005N7RO
Customer's Rating: 1
Summary: Misleading.
Comments: This magazine (and others from Joe Weider) only complicate weight training and confuse trainees. weight training is laughably simple. Train hard and heavy an a few big basic exercises that work all of your major muscle structures, add a little weight every week, get a lot of rest and eat a lot of high quality food (NOT supplements)and prgress will follow. BUT if you read this magazine you would think that you have to train 2 hours a day for six days a week, buy expensive supplements and buy useless accessries like gym clothes and shoes...plus all of the 'champs' in the magazine are just genetic freaks loaded with steroids...there is no way that an average person can ever hope to achieve this.
if you are serious about packing on solid muscle then read books about sensible training form authors like Stuart McRobert and Dr.Ellington Darden.
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 Yoga Journal
ASIN: B00006L2TX
Customer's Rating: 4
Summary: a useful resource for every level of yoga practice
Comments: I've been a subscriber for almost 4 years now, and for the most part have found every issue to have at least 2 or 3 articles very useful and interesting. Like so much of the American yoga culture, Yoga Journal the magazine has at times given too much focus to celebrities' involvement or participation in the yoga industry. Sting, Christy Turlington and Donna Karan have all been featured in one way or another. Not only are celebrities more visible, the commercialization of yoga has found its way onto the ad pages of the magazine as well. If you can flip past or ignore these inducements to buy things or seminars, the magazine offers a lot of information on topics related to a yoga practice. Spirituality, meditation, alternative medicine and psychology are also part of the mix, making Yoga Journal worth at least a year's subscription to give you a good base of knowledge with which you can build a lifetime of personal growth within your yoga.
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 Fit Pregnancy
ASIN: B00005N7WP
Customer's Rating: 2
Summary: Waste of time
Comments: I sent off for this magazine when I heard that I was pregnant and was so excited to receive it. I am now almost 5 months pregnant and have to date still not received the magazine as it takes 12 to 16 weeks for the first issue to get to you. What also amazes me is that the subscription is for 12 months but a pregnancy only lasts 9 months and by the time I get my first issue - I will only be pregnant for another 4 months. Surely the sebscription should be for 6 months and there shouldn't be such a long waiting period.
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 Running Times
ASIN: B00005N7TX
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: Great advise and prevention magazine
Comments: Running Times is one of two running magazines we subscribe to. It offers some valuable and well tested advise for the novice and well as the seasoned runner, on diet and injury prevention and care after the fact. I recommend it to anyone seriously interested in running.
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 Flex
ASIN: B00005NINW
Customer's Rating: 3
Summary: Depending on what your looking for...
Comments: Yes FLEX is a good magazine (I've been a subscriber for many years), however it depends on what is it that you're looking for in weightlifting and nutrition. If you inspire to look like these gentlemen on the covers of FLEX, ok. But if your looking to be fit, eat healthy, be active, FLEX might be a little to much for you. After a while you'll realize that you will not (and would not want to) look like most of these giants of the sport. On a positive side, the pictures and routines are very helpfull and motivating. And their nutrition articles are helpfull too.
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 Food and Fitness Advisor
ASIN: B000066HVH
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 Exercise and Health
ASIN: B000069DO8
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