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Fitness Magazines – Top Reasons To Read Them
Why do we need fitness magazines? Surely everything we need to know is contained in books or we can learn from a trainer or nutritionist.
Certainly no magazine is a substitute for expert guidance from a professional or serious study of books written by experts, but magazines still have their place.
The beauty of a magazine is that it is up to the minute, colorful and full of relatively short, easy to digest articles. A magazine can convey a lot of information. It can summarize longer, weightier books and articles and bring the latest thinking to a wider public.
Fitness is a fast moving field. New research findings are constantly appearing and changing our thinking on exercise and nutrition. Ideas developed in professional sports and fitness training eventually filter down to the amateur level. Magazines make that process faster.
New equipment, training regimes and nutritional products are often first encountered in a magazine article or advert. A serious fitness enthusaist may want to look into the subject more deeply but a magazine can provide the first spark of interest.
Magazines also have the advantage that they can provide encouragement. When we get stuck with our fitness program and seem to be going nowhere it can be heartening to read about someone else’s experiences. When we hear that other people have hit a plateau in their attempt to lose weight but eventually overcame their problem we feel that we can do the same too.
Fitness magazines have an inspirational and aspirational role. That is what their glossy photographs are all about. When we see a picture of a perfectly formed set of abdominal muscles we can envisage what is possible. It is rather like looking at a picture of a beautiful kitchen or bathroom. We know that our home is never going to look quite like that but it gives us something to aim at.
Seeing too much perfection can be a little depressing. But a good fitness magazine will always balance the inspirational and aspirational with some down to earth information. A magazine can be a fun way of getting essential information across to beginners. A book might be too daunting for someone who is just starting out on a fitness program.
The advent of the internet has given even more prominence to magazines. An internet magazine can be far more interactive than a printed publication. Magazines have always had problem and query pages but the internet allows readers to email in their comments and share them with other readers. Forums on internet fitness magazines are often the most widely read part of the magazine.
All the same features found in a printed magazine can appear on an internet magazine. There will be articles about exercise and nutrition, personal experiences, and reviews of new equipment and books. But there is the potential for so much more.
An internet magazine can provide an interactive personal trainer service which allows subscribers to log on and input their fitness statistics and create a personal profile. They can receive a fitness program tailored to their level of fitness and personal goals. Over the weeks they can track their progress.
As with so much of our lives the virtual world is becoming increasingly important in the personal fitness magazine market. But this has not entirely removed the potential for printed magazines which remain popular. The internet is all very well but you can’t prop your computer up on the treadmill or exercise bike. There remains a demand for the printed fitness magazine.
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