Oxygen magazine - gets the thumbs down!!!

[smoknjilly]

on my way upstate this morning I grabbed Oxygen magazine before getting on the train..

What a disappointment....

The whole thing was an advertisement for hydroxycut...rreal ads and then stories by the magazine on how each woman lost 28 lbs in a month or something...

repeatedly it mentioned how to "tone" areas and "tighten the tummy"

WTF!!!

will not buy that again..waaaaste of money

 

[hookdup]

I sometimes look it over in the bookstore...
Takes me about 5 minutes if I skip the Hydroxicut ads.

Sorry you wasted your money

 

[legs]

That's what I thought......I use to buy it all of the time and now it is loaded with common sense stuff not to mention all of the ads of Hydroxycut cuts (Marla Duncan galore)!!

 

[FitFossil]

The only part I really like is the Contest Results section - love the ripped physiques. Some of the workout articles are good when they use fresh-from-contest-ripped fitness women as models. Got to have my visual motivation.

Other than Oxygen and M&F Hers, which is even more mainstream w/ an even stronger toning/non-bulking bent, there really isn't anything else for women. Is there???

 

[hookdup]

Picture me on the weekend,
I took my kids out to an indoor playground and while they're playing, I'm sitting on a chair in the corner reading Muscular Development ... and there's all these soft-core porn pics of topless women and cartoons of couples getting it on ...
But some of the articles are interesting ... so I just had to keep the magazine as hidden as possible and make sure no one was sitting next to me...
I felt so dirty ....

 

[NY Muscle]

ummmmmmmmmmmmmm

oxygen mag is OWNED by MUSCLEMAG who OWNS MUSCLETECH

 

[vixenbabe]

I happen to like Oxygen....

One of the main reason's is that they showcase us older ladies in their "Future of Fitness" section. I've noticed a trend to the ladies over 30 being show-cased and I love it- keeps me motivated!!

I've collected every issue for over two years now. They seem to touch on every concern we ladies may have. Gaining mass, strength, weight loss, maintaining. I also happen to enjoy finding some new idea's if I can.

I was flippin thru Cosmo the other day at the store..GUESS WHAT I SAW? Good Ole Marla in an Hydroxycut add. My first thought.."Smart move....All the idiots will be flocking to buy this cuz they'll think the magic pill will give them her results".

I'm sorry to say..I was NOT impressed with Marla when I met her last year. Maybe she was having a bad day..but she was a tad bit snotty at the booth at the Arnold last year.

 

[smallmovesal]

speaking of marla, i saw craig kilborn last week and he hooked her up for a cameo on a tv show (a forgettable one)... apparently she wants to get into acting. i saw her cameo when he previewed it for the audience... ummmm... she needs to get some acting lessons.

and oxygen is a good read for me because i find it is a good motivator to look at those women..

 

[hookdup]

Yeah, I see what you mean, but I can still get motivated, by looking at the magazine for 5 minutes at the bookstore.
I go out of the office for lunch and hit the bookstore across the street and just look through the mags for 10 or 15 minutes to get a break.
The bookstore's full of us cheap asses who don't want to cough up the money to actually buy the magazines.

 

[legs]

I'm sorry to say..I was NOT impressed with Marla when I met her last year. Maybe she was having a bad day..but she was a tad bit snotty at the booth at the Arnold last year. [/B][/QUOTE]


I couldn't agree more.........to me she is snotty and uglier than my dog that I don't even have. Especially, with her new dark hair. yuck!!

 

[vixenbabe]

Legs, did you find her a tad bit rude as well? My hubby asked her to get our picture 2-gether...She rolled her eyes ,as if to say ,"Do I have the time for this kinda shit or what?". My hubby is a gent, but he walked away from the experience wanting to tell her that he thought I had a better body than her anyways! LOL I love my man so much!

I think she's kinda cute....BUTT...Not as cute as I once thought. Her attitude sucked ! I'm thinking Mr. Weider would have had her head for such an attitude!

Smalls, keep reading doll! I knew you'd enjoy the articles and such!

Hook....I hear ya. Actually ,my mom got me the mag. subscrip. along with Muscle & Fitness For Her as a X-mas gift. I kinda like to refer back so I'd still buy 'em anyways. Maybe we need to bring our mini digi cam scanner's to the bookstores...hehehe

 

[smallmovesal]

Smalls, keep reading doll! I knew you'd enjoy the articles and such!

if it weren't for you i'd never have picked up that mag... thanks!

 

[legs]

Yea, she wasn't outright rude but had a snotty-i'm better than you attitude.........screw that, i'd rather talk to the fitness pros anyday than her.

 

[madmitch]

Like most of the magazines, (Musclemag, Muscular Development, Muscle media etc.) they start off by giving you some interesting stuff about what drugs are used in bodybuilding etc.

Then when they get you hooked they start advertising the Hell out of their products making wild claims about their products been even better than drugs.

It is a bit stupid in a way, but you will always get people who fall for it.

Typical advertisement in these magazines shows a picture of what looks to be a fat out of shape bodybuilder. The next shows you the same bodybuilder 3 months later only this time in great shape.

But it had nothing to do with GH, steroids, Clen, or any other drug. it was all down to "super dooper thermo anabolic tablets"

Sometimes I wonder if they have any Morals at all, but who gives a shit when they are making billions of dollars each year out of you.......right?

 

[FitDiva1]

Yes I know what you mean. I used to love Oxygen. I still buy it but I am pretty bored with it now. Contest results seem to be the only thing that interests me and that is somewhat boring now. What happened to them?

 

[Sumo'sBaby]

I enjoy the recipes in it by the body gourmet guy. Other than that I love looking at the pictures for inspiration. Sometimes there's interesting articles. I just about fell off my chair when my co worker brought her magazine in and said "Look at all the weight she lost in 28 days on Hydroxycut. I think I'm going to try it." I looked at the model and it was Brandi Carrier. I doubt she ever let herself go like that in the picture. I think they just superimposed her head on another person who was overweight. Who knows......

 

[Ceebs]

I went through the same thing with Shape magazine some years ago. (I know, Shape, grooooan!) It was great motivation when I was first starting to get into working out, to see the success stories, but once I educated myself about routines and proper nutrition, I realized what a crock of stinky it was. You could set a watch by how often recycled articles appeared, and don't get me started on their religious hi-carb low-fat low-protein fervor...