Fitness books / magazines

[Delta_V]

Lawdog's topic got me thinking...what fitness books and magazines do you all like the best?

I subscribe to Men's Health, Men's Fitness, and Runner's World, but never have really read any good fitness books. Are there any other magazines out there that are better? Any books you all suggest?

As far as nutrition, I really like a lot of the recipes out of Cooking Light. Unfortunatly, the rest of the magazine is geared a lot toward the female reader, which really doesn't interest me much.

[Darkwulfe]

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0936070242/qid=1052418112/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-1633130-0883264?v=glance&s=books" target="_blank">Getting Stronger</a> : Weight Training for Men and Women
by Bill Pearl, Richard Golueke

I have used this book for about 8 years now. It's been in print for a while, every few years they update the pictures and such and any pertinent information. Highly recommended for those looking into weight training.

[Hemtt]

I don't like most fitness mags because i think they're just massive bound collections of advertisments. One page will tell you a great new food discovery and another will tell you the same thing is making you fat.
The mags also give me headaches by showing what I think to be silly exercises than no one who's not a competitive bodybuilder should do. So I'm trapped in the gym waiting to use the cable cross machine, while someone who should still be doing basic strength work is sitting on an incline bench doing a cable curl with one arm while doing a tricep extension with the other and flutterkicks at the same time.
Getting stronger is a great book, I got it in High school and I still have it. There's a good book called "Dynamic Tension" that's a Martial arts style workout without weights that's very good.
Believe it or not i think that the magizines with the best health and fitness advice are womens mags like "Self". They offer realistic goals and explain how your body works much better than the mens "Pump Me Up" mags in my humble opinion

Will Coy

i like the pictures in "Self" too...

[ateamer]

Stay away from anything published by Joe Weider. Muscle&Fiction and all his other stuff is what leads to 125 pound 17-year olds doing routines which would kill a racehorse on steroids. All the "workouts of the champions" are B.S. most of the time, and at best are for advanced pro bodybuilders who are juiced to the gills.

[JRT6]

I read every magazine my gym subscribes to. It's free and one can always learn something even from the lame Weider stuff.

[jellybean40]

For a health magazine, i read Prevention. i think they do a good job with confusing food issues, like stuff that you hear both good and bad about. It's small and i can take it in my pocketbook, and its got good recipes, too.

I have been looking around for a women's fitness mag to get, not sure which one is best.

[Hemtt]

My Girlfriend is a little jock so she has spent a long time picking a magazine, she goes with "Self". Whatever she does works good enough that can't sleep at night because I get to go home in 14 days...

Will Coy

Slowly becoming depraved.

[jellybean40]

LOL! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />

thanks. i guess i never realized "Self" was a fitness magazine. i dont remember ever reading it.

[Hemtt]

it's more of a general health thing, But it talks some fitness as well
Will Coy

[jellybean40]

ok, thanks. i happened to be in Walmart today and checked for it, but they didnt have it. i will be un-fit for at least another day <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />