I was on the airplane on the way back from a week of home cooking, family events, parties and of course - no working out. So I was catching up on some new "Women's Fitness" exercises and fitness programs I could put into my workout when I got back. The magazine was full of research topics on beans and berries and only had about 3 pages of "butt burners" and 4 pages on "how to step up your running" which I feel like I read in almost issue of this magazine or Health or anything other mag targeted towards women. I didn't really find anything amazing and I didn't feel like tearing any pages out and taking them to the gym with me. I also didn't think "Ultra Trim" was the only way I could get skinny so I opted not to buy 30 pills for $19.99 either.
I came home and was organizing the magazine and paperwork the Hubster piles around the house and I picked up a copy of his "Muscle and Fitness." Mostly because there was a hot dude on the cover but shhh don't tell him. Anywho...once I was done "reading" the cover, I started flipping through the pages and I felt like I'd discovered the fountain of eternal fitness! Sure there's a Muscle and Fitness "Hers" but to be honest...I'm sick of trimming my rear! I want to move onto another body part now PLEASE editors!
12 pages on "Smarter Ab Training" with large, clear pictures of how to use all of the equipment in your gym (turkish getups with weights, cable chops, etc.)
4 pages of "No Prowler, No Problem" showing me how I can FINALLY find an alternative to my prowler exercises by using the simplest machines I use every day!
5 pages of "Metabolic Workouts"
4 pages on "Conditioning your Body Better"
2 pages on "Kinesthetic" (I don't even know what Kinesthetic is????)
41 complete workouts inside!
Granted that most of the pages were geared toward getting bigger pecs, eating more to build mass (THAT would never show up in a women's health mag) and ads with massively huge men promoting 14-pack abs and shoulders the size of boulders (hee hee). It IS a men's magazine after all. But there was some really good information about eating clean, pages and pages on what foods build mass and which vitamins burn fat (D and calcium..bet you didn't know huh?)
As women, we're totally getting played out. The same old same old lunges and "modified situps" mixed with 2-3 stability ball exercises and 5 pages on white bean soup are really starting to make me mad! I feel like I had a 3-hour session with a personal trainer and a diet guru after reading this and all "Health" made me do was want to nap. I'm sure writing to the editors of ladies magazine isn't going to make them change their minds in the next year or so or stop them from putting puny 5-lb dumbell workouts in their magazines because they know that's what the majority of women want to read. As for me and my home, we shall only read Muscle & Fitness from now on. Vin Diesel-esque dudes on the cover every month AND actual information on my fitness? Don't mind if I do!
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