136 Supplements Reviewed!!!...Well Not really

So I'm at my local Vons...doing some shopping and while waiting for my girlfriend to pick out some canned food, I noticed the latest issue of Muscle and Fitness? (I think that's the name). On they'er cover, they have this huge font saying:

"136 SUPPLEMENTS REVIEWED!"

With a subtitle statying something to the effect of "we reviewed and tested which supplements work and which ones don't.

Anyways, I was highly interested in this as I was wondering how they'd tip-toe around the hoard of ads that consume they're magazine (Let's see 80% ads, 20% content). Anyways, as I'm getting to the editorial, I see that they reviewed supplements alright...but it's crap like vitamin E, and a bunch of vitamins (IMO). Anyways, I just laughed at myself, silly of me to think a MAGAZINE would give you the truth on any actual supplemtns. I know vitamins are supplements too...but you all know exactly what I'm referring to. I was thinking of seeing reviews of EAS's, Twinlab's creatines, proteins, and whatnot...

It's funny because I would imagine that ANYONE who's a regular reader of M&F would have already done research or whatever on almost everything they listed, and would have found that article utterly useless....save for headline value...

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail!


"Did you dad ever make you put a banana in your shorts?"
~Vernon Dozier - Phil Hendrie Show

I'm almost ashamed to admit that I have a subscription to M&F. For Valentine's Day I asked my wife for a training mag subscription. I looked through 3 or 4 (Flex, M&F, some others that were equally full of BS) and picked M&F. It's not a terrible scan but it really does pertain to the extreme end of the spectrum.

Here's the REALLY funny part. I moved a month or so after my first magazine showed up. I contacted M&F to have my address changed. Their response: "We pre-print the shipping labels so it may take up to 3 months for the change to take effect. We recommend you have your local post office forward your old mail to your new address". Bull****! My post office wants $30 for that service, it'd be cheaper to just buy more magazines! So the people in my old place get to enjoy 3 months of my subscription.

Yeah... it's sad that there's no decent fitness magazines out there. Something I can kill some time with on a plane or whatever. Muscle Media was probably the best (I really don't care for the Flex style mags), but they stopped production a few months back.

Thank god for DB then, eh?

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In six months, what will your t-shirt say?

My training journal: Sweating with the toadies
My scattered thoughts: The Bramble

Yeah... it's sad that there's no decent fitness magazines out there.

Sounds like a project for someone here. Marc? Are you ready to branch out?