Fitness Rx For Men

Customer Rating:
Summary: Overly Packed With Advertising
Comment: I subscribed to this magazine for a year and started out satisfied with the issues. There was always one good article on lifting techniques, with a smattering of some good health trivia; otherwise, the magazine was jammed with ads for supplements.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Completely wrong.
Comment: I picked this thing up while I was in a store today and came across the '300' workout. First, if I see one more 300 workout I'm going to throw myself off a cliff. Next, the photos I saw of the model doing kettlebell presses were completely wrong. Not only was the form wrong, it was dangerous. This workout also listed high skill exercises which I guarantee the average reader does not know how to do. Finally, People! The 'model' in the article did not achieve that build doing that workout. Simply doing 300 reps of something does not make it a 300 workout! Get thee to an RKC certified kettlebell trainer and get crackin'. You don't have enough time on this earth to waste it following routines displayed by oiled up steroid abusers. Don't mistake my tone for bitterness, I just hate to see people following advice that is so clearly a marketing ploy. The fitness industry doesn't care about you or the results you achieve, they only care about your wallet, so they tell you what they think you want to hear. You're better off working with a crossfit trainer or an RKC in a garage than working with a 20 year old clipboard carrier in the nicest corporate gym. Best of luck to all of you.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Best Fitness Magazine Out There
Comment: I have subscribed to just about every fitness magazine there is. However, they all pale in comparison to Fitness RX for men. It is better for the following reasons: it has much less space wasted on ads, the articles are actually based on real/scientific data, they don't waste space on how to dress or do your hair, etc (like Men's Health, Men's Fitness, etc.), they don't waste your time with filler articles about say "which movies are cool this month" like the other magazines. Overall, it gives you straight to the point; cut the crap, fitness/exercise articles. Yah, there are some articles here and there about topics such as sex, but they still focus more on health and fitness. I found the magazine to be very useful and I feel that from now on my lifting will provide even greater results with the tips I get from Fitness RX. The only problem is it only comes out every other month, but I figure they need more time to write GOOD articles, unlike the other magazines. So as far as I am concerned, they can take their time if it means a vastly superior magazine to all others.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Fitness Magazine.
Comment: I've had subscriptions to both Men's Health and Men's Fitness. The latest Men's Fitness which I still get (but not for long) is nearly all advertisements and embarassingly simple/useless workout stuff. Uh bench press, we know how that works-don't need it in every edition.

I just bought Fitness RX two weeks ago (Jan '08) and the pages are wearing out because I've been using the workouts and sharing the information with friends who are also quite impressed. Far less adverstising far better more useful and cutting edge type of information. The Jan '08 has a great section on High Intensity Interval Training with a sample workout template. Also has a great write-up on the "300" workout and a 3 level program to get there. Much better magazine for the money and I'll likely subscribe if the next edition is equally as impressive. Men's Fitness should be paying me to read it for all the money they must rake in on all the BS supplements advertisements showing 350lb roid freaks-yeah right! Get real and get Fitness RX.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Finally, something worth buying!
Comment: In the sea of health and fitness magazines out there, it's hard to find ones that really give interesting and motivational information. Muscle & Fitness, Musclemag, Flex, all good in their own reserve, but are targeting the juiced up group of bodybuilders. Men's Health, Men's Fitness and the like kind of bore with their long winded articles that (in my experience) lack any real fitness material. FitnessRX for Men, on the other hand, gives a person into fitness actual fitness info for a normal guy.

I think FitnessRX for Men is fairly new, possibly a year or two into publication and the format may have changed since I first viewed it (and was unimpressed). The information is good, and thends focus on practically any area of men's life and health (although I admit I did note some recylcled info in the most current issue).

The print quality is great as well, glossy, very detailed and well taken photography of workout routines. THIS is the fitness magazine I've been waiting for. Excellent photography that both motivates, and demonstrates a workout without putting the model in some rediculously small pair of workout trunks (Men's Workout). I suggest to guy who subscribes to, or purchases male health magazines to pick up an issue to look over at home, or at least do a flip-through in the magazine aisle.