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

RE: 136 Supplements Reviewed!!!...Well Not really (jenng)

Wed, 07 Jul 2004 20:46:35 GMT

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?

RE: 136 Supplements Reviewed!!!...Well Not really (WDNinABQ)

Wed, 07 Jul 2004 20:20:44 GMT

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?

RE: 136 Supplements Reviewed!!!...Well Not really (mhartman)

Wed, 07 Jul 2004 18:36:28 GMT

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.

136 Supplements Reviewed!!!...Well Not really (Pappy)

Wed, 07 Jul 2004 15:14:05 GMT

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...