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| Publisher: Weider Publications, Inc.
List Price: $83.88
Buy New: $34.97
You Save: $48.91 (58%)
Rating:  37 reviews
Sales Rank: 794
Format: Magazine Subscription
Type: Consumer magazine
Subscription Issues: 12
Subscription Length: 12 Months
Issues Per Year: 12
First Issue Lead Time: 6-10 Weeks
ASIN: B00005N7RO
Release Date: November 23, 2001
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 3 months
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Showing reviews 6-10 of 37
 Really fallen off..... February 20, 2005
J. Prescott (DE United States)
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
I have been reading this mag off and on for the past 20 years. As other reviews have said, I think I am just reading the same tired old stuff from three or four issues ago. "Big Guns!" "Huge Chest!" "Massive Gains!" These seem to be the ones you'll see featured about every other month in here. As for adds? Don't get me started on adds! When half of your magazine is adds, it spells trouble. Not only that, they need to specify to people who may not already know, "This mag's training tips are for people who do not work for a living and can spend 6-8 hours a day in the gym, eat 8-10 meals a day and spend MASSIVE amounts of cash on supplements." In other words, people with no real responsibilities other than taking care of their physiques (Which as far as jobs go, that's a great one to have). I teach all day and into the night, literally, for me to eat and train like they require, I'd have to quit my day job, sell my kids into slavery, and become a homeless person. In which case I'd have no money to have a gym membership. I think you get the idea.
On the positive side, the photos are awe-inspiring. Also, to be realistic, it's a mag that has been around for decades upon decades. How many different ways can you say, "Lift heavy, eat like a horse, and train like you have no other responsibilities in life"? It just becomes repetitive any way you slice it. My recommendation would be to buy an issue or two every decade or so. Buy January's "BIG GUNS" issue, and then February's "HUGE CHEST". Then wait a decade and repeat.
Good luck!
 You can't find a perfect training magazine April 22, 2002
Nicole Weeks (Orlando, FL United States)
10 out of 14 found this review helpful
I've read just about every fitness mag out there. The worst is easy to spot as they cater to the 'Roid Heads who can do 20+ sets of 50-100 reps due to their quick muscle repair assisted by illegal juice. That would be Flex and Muscle Mag. I prefer Natural Bodybuilding and Fitness magazine. Targets real athletes and competitors that aren't on the juice. Muscle and Fitness is okay. You get quite a few new training angles as well as the basics, which are necessary for the beginners (most fitness enthusiasts are STILL beginners). The only two magazine that are better are Muscle and Fitness HERS (cuz I'm a chick) and Oxygen (which caters more to the fitness competitors like me). I still see a few skin n' bones anoerexic models, but it's getting better. Advertising is a necessary evil. Deal with it. And those ads help us find out about the newest products out on the market, though those 6-8 page ads by MuscleTech (JUNK!) have got to go!
Some need to read and just not look at the titles and pics December 21, 2005
A. Pittman
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
Muscle and fitness is a decent magazine. its like most all else out there. a bit slim, but good articles beyond just working out.
theres not magically gonna be a new bodypart that appears in a future magazine. you can only train the bodyparts you have. so all the posts saying "its the same articles, big chest, huge arms, etc"
those are the ones that might wanna start reading the articles a bit more than "judging a book by its cover.....or title spot"
reason being, i;ve read this since the beginning of highschool and am now a college graduate for three years now. over 10 years of reading this magazine and yea... its the same bodyparts mentioned in a certain rotation...
HOWEVER EACH ARTICLE HAS SHOWN DIFFERENT METHODS FROM MANY DIFFERENT PEOPLE.
its like baking a pie people.... apple pie consists of crust, install the apples, bake,then eat.
however not every apple pie is made nor tastes the same.
if more people would quick bickering over the bodyparts covered (which are limited being that humans havent changed much over the past hundred years as far as bodyparts are concerned) and pay more attention to:
1) the nutrition studies
2) different methods and tips from various people to work a part
3) new breakthroughs in supplements and nutrition.
4) and perhaps the other nicknacks sections of new products outside the gym world
more people would learn more and less people would be out of shape in this country.
if you actually wanna read a magazine for articles different methods and nutrition studies, this is a decent one.
if you are one of the idiots who just look at pictures or article titles and ASSume its all the same and T&A then come to the conclusion without thouroughly reading, that the magazine is bad, go for a picture book instead.
 Misleading. November 6, 2002
sohan perera (Helsinki,Finland)
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
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.
All I Ever Received Were Past Issues November 2, 2005
David Kar
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
I used to buy this off the shelf each month, but last November, my wife bought me a subscription. I bought the December issue,...cause it hadn't arrived by mail yet. No problem. In January, I received the November issue. A few weeks later, in early February, I received the December issue, but not the January, so I went out and bought the January. By the end of February, still hadn't received the Feb yet, so bought it. Then, received the January issue and a few weeks later the February. I was fed up. I know they were getting 'caught up', but not only was I getting editions that I'd already bought off the shelf, but I figured these were counting against my 12 issues. I cancelled. They deducted a few bucks from my refund for "issues received" and had no apologies for the mess.
I like the magazine, but I will say that if you read it over time, it become redundant. The suggested work-outs are mostly rehashes of past work-out routines. Lets face it...there are only so many ways to work out and when you get right down to it, you gotta hit it hard and often, change things up, etc...bla bla bla... The BEST part of the magazine are the few pages they dedicate to the correct way to execute a lift or detail what muscles are hit. Lots of Weider ads...but then its a Weider publication, so what can you expect...
I'd buy it off the shelf because you'll eventually get tired of the same old thing...and their subscription program is iffy.
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