[Closed] Mens Health magazine ....

A fat journalist half managed the cover look in 4 months.

😉

Been at the weights and fitness for almost 20 years so physique wise - yes. Unfortunately I am a shortish, balding (and slightly greying) 34 year old which isn't really what they tend to look for...

Nope. I like to be fit, but I find the whole idea of spending ages in the gym, shaving your armpits / chest / sack / crack, eating egg whites / steamed chicken / creatine / protein shakes all a bit too much.

yep, used to be a catwalk model, these days I'm a craggy 30 something with a busy outdoors life.

I've still got the cheek bones and the jawline, what was a snake hipped twenty year old figure buffed out nicley with the growing-spread being turned to muscle by a calculated increase in activity.

My mates of the same age are getting fat and smelly, I'm getting fitter.

I've got a smaller waste size now than I had back then.

(smug)

He was not really that fat to start off with to be fair.

I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.

TSY

If I had a penny for every time my wife quoted that film at me.

Petrol Fight!!

You need to throw back quotes from the Legend that is Ron Burgandy

'Hey everyone, come here and see how good I look' 😆

What is this? A centre for ants!

They've done studies, you know. They say 60% of the time, it works every time.

HAHAHA I love that film.

Maybe because I'm a slightly vain spinning class addict that has stopped reading mens health years ago as after 6 months you've read all that they are ever going to write.

he was 5'10" 15 stone that's fat

I have the natural talent, time and energy either to be buff or to be clever and interesting, but not both at the same time.

I generally shoot for clever and interesting, and manage to stay slim. 🙂

i manage to stay slim

Maybe because I'm a slightly vain spinning class addict that has stopped reading mens health years ago as after 6 months you've read all that they are ever going to write.

Too true, every issue the cover features:-
I, How to get rock hard abbs/arms without trying/in hours/easily
II, Something about sex usually about it being good for her.
III, How you can eat/drink something usually seen as bad and get fitter eg curry or beer.
IV, How to earn more or get a better job
V, How to beat a disease, heart attack.

I was at 26yrs of age. Caught the attention my current GF.

Now at 33 and overworked and got fat.

GF said her BF was eaten by me...thanks alot!

So now at 33, on a diet and serious training begins in June when 7 days a week work is finally finished.

Probably 4 months of training, I have the sports science knowledge but must have the commitment/desire.

I guess it depends how far off you are, if you are grossly obese then sure it will take longer to reach cover mags but depends on your goal.

I just want to spend the last of my 30's racing/sportives again.

I always assumed that anyone who read Mens Health magazine was..... well..... you know

Never pushed back in my life Binners...

But did go for a 6 month spell of celibacy at one stage.... hmmm?

I'm currently in the middle of Tony Horton's P90X. I know, I know, it's one of those infomercial things that make you cringe if you turn the telly on too early in the morning, but I can honestly say that I'm noticing quite a difference. I don't think I'll ever be "Men's Health" ripped because I like beer and pies too much, but in 5 and a bit weeks I've lost my muffin top, have increased my arm strength immeasurably (as in I can actually manage 20 pull-ups/push ups, rather than the 1 or 2 that killed me before), and just generally trimmed fat and toned up. And I feel a million times more awake as well.

20 pull ups in 5 weeks........ really?

I don't think it I've ever seen it. Is it like Women's Realm?

There's a huge difference between being able to do 20 [b]push[/b] ups and 20 [b]pull[/b] ups...

i always thought men's health was the magazine people got when their copy of attitude was sold out so i'm with binners. certainly the last time i looked at it in company with one of my gay mates his comment was if you had abs like that i'd shag you. to which i replied, in words of the great mc hammer you can't touch this. i think we were both firmly (yes, yes i said firmly) in accord re the homoreoticism of men's heath. or as he would put it, them that read the likes of this, two beers away, my friend, two beers away....

for the dz afficionados above - you know there's a zoolander 2 in the offing? mugatu returns? he's so hot right now.

Is it a gay thing, or just an insidious attempt to destroy male self confidence with negative body image and to sell products to fill the yawning void in our self-esteem thereby created? Women have had to put up with magazines pulling exactly the same stunt for decades...

Men's Health! You too can get ripped abs! Come on, get those abs ripped! Do it! How are your abs now? Ripped yet? Here's a new way to get ripped abs! Come on, you want ripped abs, you do! Do it! Ripped abs!

Do they ever talk about anything else?

BigDummy - Member

Is it a gay thing, or just an insidious attempt to destroy male self confidence with negative body image and to sell products to fill the yawning void in our self-esteem thereby created? Women have had to oput up with magazines pulling exactly the same stunt for decades...

It must be part of a push to flog 'beauty products' to men.

Although this kind of thing has been going on for a while, I think it is being taken up fairly slowly because the majority of men are not interested.

Personally, I like to feel fit -not being fat is a side-effect. I could not be ars*d to pump iron in order to look 'buff'.

Using cosmetics & having a spray tan seems like a waste of time and money in
order to look ridiculous.

Shaving my body seems pointless as I have no intention of achieving silky smooth legs or chest

Anecdotally, the Trafford Centre originally had lots of shops selling clothing for men and for women. With an couple of years the number stocking clothes for men appeared to have fallen significantly.

[chuckling at molgrips] 😀

Agreed Geronimo, although "do you pluck your nutsack?" threads on here are always surprising.

I bought, on whim, something that reckoned it would give me better skin the other day. It has definitely given me greasier skin. Sod that. 🙂

Thankfully now in my 40's I have grown out of the need to buy magazines telling me how my body / lifestyle should be, for me that includes for cycling mags as well.

TBH you should be grown out of it by the time you are 30.

I dont really see the point in it

If you're into mens health stuff, surely theres loads of websites on the internet that can give you all the 'ripped abs' info for free.

It seems like an odd magazine to sit down and read with a cup of coffee. i cant see there being any funny or interesting stories in there.

It depends what people think 'manliness' is.

Do you reckon these chaps
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20 pull ups in 5 weeks........ really?

I may have forgot to mention that some might possibly be "assisted" pull-ups (toes on chair out in front) 😳
And I could obviously do more than 1 in the first place. Maybe 4 or 5.
I'm still better than I was, anyway.

You can be a heroin addict and have ripped abs - just means low bodyfat. Getting them isn't exactly rocket science and not really a broad enough subject to be detailed in depth every single month.

You can be a heroin addict and have ripped abs - just means low bodyfat. Getting them isn't exactly rocket science and not really a broad enough subject to be detailed in depth every single month.

Train hard + don't eat too much.

Please send your money to....

I'm sorry, but I think those 40's SAS chaps have probably been using conditioner on their beards. 😉

BigDummy - Member

I'm sorry, but I think those 40's SAS chaps have probably been using conditioner on their beards.

That may be so, but would you have asked them?

You can be a heroin addict and have ripped abs

I find your views intriguing, and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

BigDummy - Member

I'm sorry, but I think those 40's SAS chaps have probably been using conditioner on their beards.

See the canisters in front and behind them? Full of Pantene Pro V, I'll bet.

Does my gun look big in this?

Ox - a mere £5 a week and you too can learn the secrets of the Pete Doherty workout.

I remember buying a couple of issues when it first came out years ago,
there was one of those 'factoid' type bits that suggested a hot bath prior to sex, the heat dilating blood vessels leading to stronger erections! Literally the following issue there was a similar piece advocating a cold shower prior to sex, as this would lead to a release of endorphins and adrenalin leading to stronger erections!!!
I waited for the one that said avoid washing prior to sex as the pheromones would lead to stronger erections, but that one never happened!

I have the natural talent, time and energy either to be buff or to be clever and interesting, but not both at the same time.

I manage both! 😀

I'm well buff me. I don't need to work at it though, as it just comes naturally. Superior genes you see.

You can be a heroin addict and have ripped abs

Indeed, there are a few that live near my office, in the summer they have their tops off and do indeed have ripped abs, they also have appalling grey skin and at least one of them shats his pants judging by the state of his boxers that were being exposed by his low slung jeans, all in the name of vanity.

I stayed in a hotel in Edinburgh at the weekend where there was a free copy in the room. Had a feature about orgies, which was alright for a quick hand shandy while the missus was reskimming her face in the bathroom.

Talkemada do you wear Diesel genes like menshealth says to as well then?

a mere £5 a week and you too can learn the secrets of the Pete Doherty workout.

If that includes the required amount of skag, I'm in!

I stayed in a hotel in Edinburgh at the weekend where there was a free copy in the room. Had a feature about orgies, which was alright for a quick hand shandy

Wipe it in the curtains when you were done?

No but I did spill some White Spirit on a pair once. I could never get the smell out. 🙁

STW Buff contest.
To publish and share 🙂

Create your own Men's Health cover right here.
http://magazinecovers.funphotobox.com/magazinecover.aspx?name=menshealth

Very tempted but think I'll resist... 😆

The article in the Times pretty much said it: Vanity is not manly or attractive.
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I'm not sure if the olay add pop-up is ironic, or the dove for men add add at the end. Selling the lifestyle I suppose
Anyway I'll just put the axe back in the garage and have chips for tea..

Couldn't get it to work.

Well, I did, then it went wrong.

Looked too disturbing anyway. 🙁

This might be the silliest thing I have ever done on-line - and I've done some silly things...!

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Well at least the title is correctly placed... 😉

A stroke of luck there...

That's a photoshop surely? Not the shape they normally pt on the covers is it?
Never bought one, I always thought they were just soft porn for gays.

A friend of mine emailed me on Sunday to let me know that "Ray Winstone is a hot dad, no two ways about it", I have begged to differ, but just goes to show that almost anything works for someone out there.

LOL, I subscribe. I quite like the magazine to be honest. As someone who enjoys going to the gym I find some of the advice in there quite good. Sorry 🙁

That's a photoshop surely? Not the shape they normally pt on the covers is it?

Erm...

Never bought one, I always thought they were just soft porn for gays.

You'd be amazed at how many straight men read stuff like this. Although something like Cosmo or similar might actually give more insight into what works for women...

That's a photoshop surely? Not the shape they normally pt on the covers is it?

Yes they usually put oiled up chest waxed preeners on there not hairy, balding old gits.

I wouldn't worry, Surf-Mat; I suspect many peeps on here wouldn't be as brave; probably a good thing really. 😀

Nowt wrong with wanting to be at yer best. Fit, well-toned people tend to be a bit more confident, on average, than others. All this 'oh if you read Mens Health then you must be Gay' nonsense is silly; what, so only Gay men are allowed to try to look good? The reality is, fellers, that most ladies like a bloke that's at least a bit buff. Just because you can't manage it, doesn't mean the rest of us shouldn't have a go!

I'd just like to hastily point out that I'm kneeling down in that pic which is a rather unflattering position for "the look" and I have also realised it's too late to remove the pic (forgot the 15 minute thing). Oh very darn.

Grrrrr - feel those abs burn... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz 😉

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What's with the homophobia, Flashy?

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....just saying CFH 😉

Healthy Men looks pretty good.... some interesting articles that deviate from the standard Mens Health monthly cycle.

😳 - oh the shame.

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All this 'oh if you read Mens Health then you must be Gay' nonsense is silly; what, so only Gay men are allowed to try to look good

No mate, I thought they were w@nking over it.

Nice to see a hairy chest on a bloke. 😀

The second one above is totally sexless!

You lot probably didn't want to read any girlie comments did you? 😉

The second one above is totally sexless!

eh? Actually, I had sex with my good wife only the other night.

The funny thing about MH is the fact that while yes they have gorgeous, eminently spaffable men on the front the people who write it are all balding fat barstewards who smoke like chimneys - I saw a program on the telly about a year ago where they interviewed the editors.

When I see the cover I initially thing 'phwoar' then remember the editors. A bit like thinking about shagging Thatcher for straight men (obviously those who are political and w@nking themselves into a frenzy about the election, of course).

Does CG mean the cat? The cat's gay, that's for sure, we've had him checked!

Does CG mean the cat?

Real men have dogs. 8)

Seriously, these muscle-bound creatures are ghastly.

Well I'm quite ancient and I am well buff.

I've got a large ripped single-pack instead of those puny six-packs.

Six-pack? Who wants a six-pack, when you can have a little keg? 😀

No mate, I thought they were w@nking over it.

So what if they are? The Littlewoods catalogue lingerie section is 'aimed' at female customers, but it doesn't stop teenage boys from tugging furiously over it...

Coco de Mer is where it's at 😉

[i]When I see the cover I initially think 'phwoar' then remember the editors.[/i]

Sometimes, just sometimes, I get a genuinely surprising insight on these pages. Adam's post has given me one. 🙂