The Magazines

[kiwiol]

I'm not 100% positive, but I'm quite sure Keith Jones sat right next to Jonesy from the Police Academy!!!

Rumors has it that it was at a charity event. CNN is about to report on it.

You Sir, are a man on a mission who sticks to his agenda

[BayGBM]

Amazing. 

The bodybuilding magazines (FLEX, Muscle & Fitness, etc.) are just as repetitive...  

Has anyone here admited to subscribing to this shit?

[lovemonkey]

You Sir, are a man on a mission who sticks to his agenda

To show my dedication to this remarkable event, here is a photograph!!

[GigantorX]

To show my dedication to this remarkable event, here is a photograph!!

AHAHAHah

Classic, quality and entertaining....it should be deleted before the hour is out.

[#1 Klaus fan]

The best ad was where they were selling a supplement which was claimed to give you a really good pump in the gym or something like that, and there were pics of a guy, supposedly before and after a training session (of course much bigger afterwards). But, during this session his hair grew like an inch! 

[Mars]

[240 is Back]

Here we go again.  I'm in the check out aisle and what do I see?  Another magazine that tells you to "Lose Your Belly" and now women can 'see results in 8 days!'  Just a few months ago, they said you could see results in 12 days.  I guess that's progress...

How many times can a fitness magazine say the exact same thing and have people buy it?

Compare this cover to the Woman's Health magazine at the start of this thread.  They are almost identical: 
Lose Your gut vs. Lose your Gut
Success Without Stress vs. Success Without Stress
15 Amazing Sex Secrets vs. 14 Amazing Sex Secrets
Fat-Burning Power Foods vs. 15 Fat-Burning Power Foods
Look Your Best vs. Look Your Best
 

great analysis.  i'd love to see one on the musle mags.  how many ways can they say "add mass' or 'get shredded'?

[lovemonkey]

Fuck islam. It's poison to your mind.

[BayGBM]

great analysis.  i'd love to see one on the musle mags.  how many ways can they say "add mass' or 'get shredded'?

Notice the dates on the two issues. One is October 2008 and the other is January/February 2009.  Even the font is the same for the main headline "Lose Your Belly!"  All they did was change the cover model. 

[Mars]

dont hate

[lovemonkey]

dont hate

I bet you love the islamic invasion in your own country, mars?

[Oldschool Flip]

People are just naive. The Mags and supplement companies are just doing what they need to do....make money. If naive people buy the mags and supps, that's who they will cater too. There are so many scams out there in the fitness/wellness industry because it's a money making business.

[Monster_Everything]

dont hate

I actually sat and watched your posting of the Stalin documentary from the History Channel, very interesting.

[Mars]

I actually sat and watched your posting of the Stalin documentary from the History Channel, very interesting.

yeah great stuff indeed bro.

[~flower~]

15 Amazing Sex Secrets vs. 14 Amazing Sex Secrets

What's the secret 15th one that only one mag knows about? 

[BayGBM]

What's the secret 15th one that only one mag knows about? 

It's the same magazine!!! 

[~flower~]

It's the same magazine!!! 

  oh!  must have been too scandalous to reprint!  

[flagadajones]

the suplement industry works exactly the same way... selling dream in powder...

I'ts all a giant scam aimed at luring newcommers constantly into falling for the ads and opening their wallets. That is all.

Now almost all industries work the same way, but yeah, the fitness/bodybuilding/suplement(all working hand in hand) industry is the worst of em all cause it takes really a low scum narcistic and self centered lying asshole to work in this.

I'd go as far as including gym staffs /employees , personal trainers to be for the most of em part of this giant douchebagry.

[Mars]

[Andy Griffin]

Here we go again.  I'm in the check out aisle and what do I see?  Another magazine that tells you to "Lose Your Belly" and now women can 'see results in 8 days!'  Just a few months ago, they said you could see results in 12 days.  I guess that's progress...

How many times can a fitness magazine say the exact same thing and have people buy it?

Compare this cover to the Woman's Health magazine at the start of this thread.  They are almost identical: 
Lose Your gut vs. Lose your Gut
Success Without Stress vs. Success Without Stress
15 Amazing Sex Secrets vs. 14 Amazing Sex Secrets
Fat-Burning Power Foods vs. 15 Fat-Burning Power Foods
Look Your Best vs. Look Your Best
 

This whole issue is the basis for my sig "Mind-blowing pumps, steroid-like gains." 

[Chick]

So, I'm in the grocery check out aisle this evening and opposite the tabloids are a string of fitness magazines.  I remembered G's post above and I snapped this pic with my iPhone.  It occurred to me that all these magazines look exactly alike; the only thing that changes from month to month are the cover models.  I must have seen that "Lose your Gut" headline (or some variation on it) more than a dozen times over the last year and here it is on two mags side by side!  Apparently everyone in America has a Belly or Gut problem; do these mags ever mention that spot reduction is not possible through diet/exercise?

How do these mags stay in business peddling the same crap month after month for years on end?  I can see buying one or two issues but who subscribes to this stuff?  The hard core BB mags are even more repetitive!  Is there anyone here who hasn't seen the headline "Get ripped!  Now!" a dozen times?

G has it right, this whole fitness industry is a "huge bag of shit." 

Welocme to the world of publications....it's the same shit with Cosmo, Car and driver and field and steam....golf Inc, Running Illustrated, or just about any othe magazine....same shit, different cover....what were you expecting exactly?

[Samourai Pizzacat]

It's how a lot of mags work, certainly the weeklies. there's just not enough real substance, and if there was it would either go over the readers' heads or the editors'.
They just fill it with crap, silly tests, horrendous editorials, there's so many crappy columnists scribbling their mundane babblings in these add riddled mags.

Meltdown btw

[QuakerOats]

It's how a lot of mags work, certainly the weeklies. there's just not enough real substance, and if there was it would either go over the readers' heads or the editors'.
They just fill it with crap, silly tests, horrendous editorials, there's so many crappy columnists scribbling their mundane babblings in these add riddled mags.

Meltdown btw

exactly, the covers are meant to draw attention from people in stores, newsstands, etc, grandiose statements, exclamation points, big bold faced type, etc...........Advertisin g 101.

[leonp1981]

I always liked the "Gain 1 Inch on Your Arms in 24 Hours" cover that I read ages ago.  You had to do a small workout every 90 minutes for like 10 hours, or something like that, mainly pumping exercises. 

Right at the end of the article was a small bit basically saying: "Most trainers found that they had gained 1 inch at the end of the day, and 20% found that they actually kept 1/8th of it the following day!"