Looking for a good womens fitness mag

[indygolfer]

I want to get in shape and am looking for a good womens fitness magazine. I currently weigh 155 pounds and my goal is to lose 25 pounds and to tone my thighs, legs and butt. I need a magazine with good recipes, workout routines, and overall good health tips. Plus if anyone has suggestions for me I am open to that as well.

 

[Sassy69]

IMO most mags are full of shit. My personal recommendation would be spend some time on EF and especially read the sticky "Are you new to the EF Ladies board -- START HERE" at the top of this board.

If you are just getting into fitness I really like the Body for Life book by Bill Phillips. He also sells the Muscular Development magazine. Not too bad and some interesting articles, however it really promotes the crap out of his product line and that gets hella old. But decent articles. Muscle & Fitness Hers isn't bad and I guess Shape is ok. I only buy those things when I'm travelign cuz I need somethign to look at on the plane. For recipes I really like the South Beach Diet book -- you dont have to follow the diet but the recipes are fantastic!

 

[necia]

I like Oxygen, Best Body, and Fitness Rx. Muscle & Fitness Hers was a great magazine, but they discontinued it.

Necia

 

[superqt4u2nv]

I am with Sassy most fitness Mags are BS I have read them for years but never really understood fitness and nutrition tell I found elite. I still get Oxygen from time to time not for any of the advice mind you just to check out comp pics and that sort of thing.

 

[jenscats5]

I subscribe to Oxygen & M&F for entertainment purposes..... Sassy had some GREAT suggestions and as for magazines - I like Cooking Light for recipes....

 

[buffgrl23]

I use to read Shape and Oxygen. After a while I didn't feel like I was getting anything out of them. But if you are new to the fitness scene you may enjoy those two.

 

[Sassy69]

The problem w/ the mags is that they don't really seem to give "real world" info. Maybe some of the articles are good, but stuff like "Monica Brandt's Olympic Prep Diet" or somethign like that don't often include the reality details, like the diuretics or other controlled substances that this person might be using., So the info is just skewed and sort of misleadign or useless. Or the photos & body stats are at competition time and not "regular life" so it sets expectations in a misleading way to the people reading.

Again, just my opinion because "fitness" is still a media industry and as such is going to suffer from the usual BS factor. I prefer to get real info and the web is usually the best for that because nutrition and fitness are such "inexact" (or perhaps better, not appropriately quantified) sciences. Too many factors to say "Buy X Diet - you will lose 20 lb of fat in 10 days". Better to really build an awareness and start to understand your own body and what it can do / how it reacts, etc.

 

[treilin]

I like Oxygen, Best Body, and Fitness Rx. Muscle & Fitness Hers was a great magazine, but they discontinued it.

Necia

They discontinued M&F for Hers!! I was wondering because I haven't seen it on the shelves the past few months. I really think the Mens was better anyway. The women's magazine seemed to get skinnier and skinnier and really didn't have a whole lot of articles. I do like the Fitness RX but it only comes out every two months. That magazine though is full of articles to read instead of ads. Oxygen is great also the New Women's Health (spin off of Men's Health) isn't bad either. I still think the Men's magazines are better.

 

[jaded]

I really don't get much out of reading Fitness magazines - I've learned so much more from reading articles on the various boards on Elite.

Speaking of magazines though, one of the most ridiculous things I remember reading recently was in Self - one of their little articles said getting more than 18% of your calories from protein was extremely dangerous!! LMAO.