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Men's Fitness | 
| Publisher: Weider Publications, Inc.
List Price: $39.90
Buy New: $11.97
You Save: $27.93 (70%)
Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 137
Format: Magazine Subscription
Type: Consumer magazine
Subscription Issues: 10
Subscription Length: 12 Months
Issues Per Year: 10
First Issue Lead Time: 6-10 Weeks
ASIN: B00023J4FW
Release Date: November 23, 2001
Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 3 months
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Product Description
MEN'S FITNESS is a guide for fit and active men. The information on training, nutrition, gear, apparel, relationships and adventure sports.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 How The Mighty Have Fallen August 20, 2004
William Mize (St Petersburg, FL USA)
63 out of 66 found this review helpful
This magazine used to be, bar none, the best fitness magazine on the market. It used to be a quality magazine that stood head and shoulders over the vapidity that is Men's Health magazine. The concentration was on fitness, on workouts, on learning new ways to eat, to improve your overall health level. I kept each issue in a binder, because literally each article was a keeper.
But now - October 2003, the magazine underwent the customary "makeover" and I guess being the best, the most professional, the standard wasn't bringing in enough subscribers, because they've sunk low enough to be worse than "Men's Health". The tone of each article is meaner, more sarcastic. It's all about being funny (in a juvenile way). I had a three year subscription with two years left and cancelled it immediately. I guess they've decided to go for the 18-25 Maxim Frat Boy crowd.
Too bad.
If you're 18-25, immature, think that life has nothing more to offer than getting laid and drunk on the weekend, then hey! "Men's Fitness" is for you. But if you're out of college (or high school), mature and looking for quality articles on workouts, on diet and health and fitness, I'm afraid that this magazine isn't for you.
 An Odd Mix of Cool & Clunk November 20, 2004
K. Brown (Walnut, Ca USA)
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
On one hand... there are some very informative nutrition and workout plans in each issue of this magazine. I'm not talking about rehashed workouts you have already seen in every other fitness magazine since 1980. Men's Fitness comes up with really creative workouts, and doesn't focus solely on the bodybuilder prepping for competition; there are ample articles for both folks who are looking to gain mass, but equal time if you are gearing more toward burning fat and slimming down.
On the other hand... the "Mens' Lifestyle" segments are way overdone and, too often, badly executed! While I occasionally pick up fitness magazines for the workout and/or nutrition pieces, I've come to accept that these mags will be packed with advice and info for the hep-man. Not only have I come to accept it, I've come to enjoy some of the feature on consumer goods for men (ie in the Dec/Jan 2005 issue of this magazine, comparisons between electric shavers, and a cool 4 page feature on cool recreation & technology items like iPods, top line digital cameras, jet skis, and a cool space-age espresso machine!).
The most cringe-inducing aspect of the lifestyle features comes in the tone used in the articles focusing on the single man's love and social life. Some of the advice I find good, some really, really bad; but the problem is not so much the actual advice being given, the problem is that it's hard to take the articles seriously, without picturing the authors trying desperately to sound cool and "With It" in a "Man" way like Adam Corolla or Howard Stern. Trouble is, these guys ARE NOT Corolla or Stern, and the voice I picture most times I read these columns is that of Bill Murray playing his polyester-clad lounge singer from his Saturday Night Live days.
FIVE STARS for the workout & nutrition features, ONE STAR for the advice to the guys cruising for chicks! "The Man Show" concept is funny, but not in these pages, baby!
Not a big fan... February 27, 2007
C. Curry (Las Vegas)
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
I know that overall men's fitness should include sex (and lots of it) but I tire of hearing it from a magazine whose main focus should be fitness, wellness, and health. I'm not purposing to eliminate it completely, because as we all know sex sells, I just saying minimize it! I can read all about sex in Playboy! I would suggest buying Men's Health- it's a better read.
Another fitness magazine that has lost its way... July 13, 2005
N. Berry (USA)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
I rec'd this month's edition at lunch, and have already tossed it. Have been disappointed with the subscription. 140 pages, 5 or 6 of which are focused on actual fitness.
Lack of good customer service leaves bad taste January 24, 2006
David Turner (Charlotte, NC United States)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I used to pick this magazine up on a regular basis. I enjoyed the fitness tips and nutrion tips that were in the magazine. I also thought that the work out plans that were in the pages were excelent, especially for those of us that were beginners.
However, I have had nothing but complications with the subscription, recieving the magazine weeks after news stand date. I also have come across extremely poor customer service when trying to resolve the problem. To top that off a renewal was demanded to continue to recieve my current subscription.
I also watched the magazine go from an excelent fitness magazine to an overrated mens magazine. The fitness aspect seems to slowly being replaced by all the newest technological gizmos and gadgets and mens fashion. If I wanted all this I could read FHM or Stuff.
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