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By Marko on Jan 26, 2010 | In Bodybuilding, Literature | No Comments »
I have decided to include the opportunity for you to subscribe to popular bodybuilding magazines. From powerlifting point of view, if you are a serious athlete, these magazines won’t do you any good. Truth to be told, there isn’t a powerlifter that will tell you a nice thing about such literature. But, when I was starting in the whole strength training arena I learned a lot about training and nutrition by reading bodybuilding magazines like Flex, Muscle Development and Iron Man. So, if you are a beginner or just a bodybuilding fan, you can subscribe to any of these and start learning. Also check out other related sport magazines to which you can subscribe.
Joe Weider’s Flex
When we are talking about bodybuilding magazine niche we are definitely talking about Joe Weider’s Flex. This magazine covers it all when it comes to this sport: training advices, nutrition tips, competition reports, bodybuilder profiles and interviews and awesome photo shoots. Unfortunately it became a bit commercialized in the last decade. Good thing about it still is that its content is almost always fresh which can’t be said for many other similar magazines. Most of the training routines laid out are useful for both male and female athletes. Also, besides regular quality columns, each month you get tips from popular athletes on various subjects. All in all, if you’re asking which of these magazines to subscribe to than this would be your item of choice.
Get 12 issues/12 months for $42.97 ($3.58/issue)
Muscular Development
This magazine provides you with the latest info on bodybuilding sport, a lot of training routines for both beginners and advanced lifters. Also, each monthly issue is packed with nutritional tips from specialists and scientists and information on hot new supplements. In essence, this monthly magazine is a lot similar to Flex because it has a lot of articles on diverse subjects, covering every bit of the sport. But many complain that information is rehashed after some time. For example, training routines and nutrition advices seem to repeat once in a while. Nevertheless, this bodybuilding magazine is one of the best in the niche, so you may want to consider it.
Get 12 issues/12 months for $49.97 ($4.16/issue)
Muscle & Fitness
Like other quality magazines covering this sport, Muscle & Fitness has excellent articles packed with fresh information on training routines. Each exercise is described thoroughly and with lots of pictures. Generally, standpoint of proper exercise form is defended while lifting heavier weights is disapproved. This way of thinking is very smart, since magazine is intended for people in beginner / intermediate level of preparedness. The bad side of this magazine (like in any other today) is a huge number of multi-page ads for supplements. Most of these pages advertise useless and too expensive stuff for the general user.
Get 12 issues/12 months for $39.97 ($3.33/issue)
Iron Man
This is another one from the line of good bodybuilding magazines. It features 12 issues every year packed with tons of information on bodybuilding and fitness related stuff like training routines, nutrition and supplement tips and interviews with famous athletes from the field. You can definitely find new ideas for training and nutrition which you can easily incorporate and fresh up your daily routine. Thorough explanations provided by professionals are always a guarantee that you are getting the most accurate information. As with all good magazines, Iron Man has its bad and good sides. Definitely a bad side would be a lot of annoying page ads, which became a problem with all popular magazines today.
Get 12 issues/12 months for $29.97 ($2.50/issue)
Reps!
Reps! Magazine covers all basic muscle and fitness topics in very easy and interesting to read articles. This quarterly features only the best photography which is always nice when it comes to this sport. Unlike other popular magazines Reps! comes out only 4 times a year. You’ll often find training routines in it that last more than 2 months so it will be that much easier to follow them through with natural pace while you wait for a new issue to arrive. Although this magazine has many pages with ads, it is not nearly as packed with ads as other competitive magazines. This is just another from the line of similar quality magazines, so it may as well be on your list of subscriptions.
Get 4 issues/12 months for $11.97 ($2.99/issue)
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Without a doubt Powerlifting USA is the best and most established powerlifting magazine in the World. It covers everything from contest results, athlete profiles, training techniques to the newest apparel and equipment. It features a number of regular columns with writers like Louie Simmons, Dave Tate, Mario DiPasqual and other powerlifting legends. Every issue comes with the workout of the month where a famous lifter shares his training routine and summarizes a 12 week program that readers can follow and tailor to their own strength levels. Also, reflection to the history of this amazing sport, which this magazine is full of, is always interesting to read.
POWER Magazine is completely new spotlight to the world of power lifts. Nevertheless, Mark and Andee Bell as its publishers plan to take it to the top of powerlifting magazine niche. Debut was planned for November 2009. Considering that this sport is not as popular as, for example, bodybuilding or Olympic lifting, six issues a year will present quite the publishing pace. Andee Bell, one of the publishers, says: “POWER Magazine will bring a national spotlight to the strongest men and women in the world. We want to do for Powerlifting what Joe Weider did for Bodybuilding“. Each issue will feature latest news of the sports, nutrition, supplements, equipment, apparel, meets, workouts, and interviews with the popular powerlifters.
Although MILO Magazine, published by IronMind, covers powerlifting topics, it is intended to cover a whole range of closely related sports and strength training activities like strongman, Olympic weightlifting, odd lifts, arm wrestling, Highland Games, and similar. This magazine or maybe it is more appropriate to call it a book, with very few ads presents a thorough guide on training routines and strength competitions.
