Stay Fit Through Your Inbox

With all the infomercials hawking this or that new ab-, butt-, or thigh-busting contraption and fad diets touted amid implausible claims of instant weight loss, it's no wonder that many people just throw up their hands on the whole idea of fitness and console themselves with pints of ice cream. Fortunately, you can count on many get-fit online references for information that's both medically sound and entertaining.

With the help of authors and fitness professionals, you see through the hype of celebrity weight loss videos and the quackery of fat-dissolving potions and creams. The proposed aim of online fitness sites is to show you, the looking-to-be-fit-and-stay-fit user, how you can set and achieve realistic fitness goals without dipping into your retirement fund to buy dust-gathering, high-tech equipment.

Exercise and health are matters that vary from person to person. Viewers of online fitness programs should speak with their own doctors about their individual needs before starting any exercise program. Many fitness Web sites are not intended as a substitute for the medical advice and supervision of your personal physician. These same fitness Web sites not only provide exercise and health information on the pages themselves, but also through electronic magazines.

Electronic magazines, or e-zines, as they are more affectionately called, have become one of the Internet’s most popular sources for informational and leisure reading. A basic search of these online publications can yield an endless listing of e-zines. However, the aim of this article is to provide you with some of the best fitness e-zines the Net.

And here they are, in no particular order:

• Musclemag.com - E-zine for bodybuilders, addressing health, nutrition, and fitness.
• e-fitnews.com - A monthly online newsletter on fitness.
• East Coast Muscle - E-zine focusing on competitive bodybuilding, with competition schedules, photos, profiles, and more.
• Elite Fitness - Information on bodybuilding, nutrition, supplements, anabolic steroids and fitness.
• Fitness Newsletter - FITnZINE newsletter featuring online free coaching.
• Fitnesse - India's first fitness e-zine, with information on nutrition, health, exercise, fitness equipment and celebrities.
• FitnessNews Online - Health and fitness e-zine, offering a directory of personal trainers and aerobic instructors, and articles on health and fitness.
• Journal of Performance Enhancement - Providing brief reviews of the literature on subjects relating to athletic performance enhancement, and an online textbook of athletic performance enhancement.
• Mesomorphosis.com - Bi-weekly internet publication about body building, helping people make informed decisions about training, nutrition, and supplementation.
• National Bodybuilding And Fitness Magazine - Free monthly e-zine, on the subject of bodybuilding.
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