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Amigo! Where've you been?? I saw you on yahoo very early this mornign but i was running out the door! check your PMs in a few minutes, i'm sendin' ya a message!camarosuper6 said:I miss my friend GOALGETTER.
you rawk....
Hello there NT! Where the hell have YOU been!? How are things? The wife, the offspring?naturaltan said:
Hello to you too! Man everyone and their grandmother is dropping by here today!The Monkey Man said:
GoalGetter said:Hello there NT! Where the hell have YOU been!? How are things? The wife, the offspring?
Don't make me kick your ass. It is too early for cat fights!Jodi said:No - NO Good morning for you bitch!
How bout that instead?
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GoalGetter said:Hello there NT! Where the hell have YOU been!? How are things? The wife, the offspring?
haha! Someone else on the sore and beat list -GoalGetter said:no workout yesterday. My lower back was/is KILLING ME since the 170lb deadlift the other day. During my workout time yesterday, i went and got a massage instead. That didn't help much, but it was a nice relaxing hour, regardless...
beat to shit, really. i thought about working out today, in about 2 hours after my client... but no way. i'm still feeling achy all over.The Monkey Man said:haha! Someone else on the sore and beat list -
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GoalGetter said:beat to shit, really. i thought about working out today, in about 2 hours after my client... but no way. i'm still feeling achy all over.![]()
GoalGetter said:shut up you drama queens... i haven't really been visiting too many journals. Been working and studying for the CSCS. When i come online, I usually just reply to the last one or two posts on my journal... always meaning to get back and reply to everything, and visit other journals, but alas, you've seen how I slack in that department.
HI BURNER, HI JAKE.
I work as a personal trainer at a large fitness club in New York City's Upper East Side. In my line of work I've encountered quite a few women who always think they're too fat, or in bad shape, or who are afraid of having a little muscle tone because an athletic woman is "unattractive" or "unappealing". A lot of the women I see coming and going very obviously have eating disorders or at the very least display disordered eating symptoms. Every month we receive numerous copies of your magazine to place in the cardio area for our members to read while they exercise (something which I think is ridiculous, if you're there to exercise, but i digress). I always see these women who weigh 50 pounds soaking wet doing over an hour of cardio while flipping through the pages of your magazine, and until TODAY, I never really thought much of it other than, what a shame. TODAY, I happened to pick up your magazine, and flip through it myself as I waited for a client.
When I got to your article, DANGEROUS CURVES AHEAD, on page 109, I was quite perplexed, because in the three pages that followed there were NO CURVES TO BE SEEN anywhere on that emaciated "fitness" model. I mean, for a "fitness" magazine, I would think you folks would have a little better use of your judgement than to place a model who looks nearly anorexic in a feature about CURVES or any shape whatsoever besides "stick". What kind of message are you sending your readers if they are to look at this, tall, thin, lanky girl with not a single curve on her body, and you're implying to them that to get her "curves" they have to perform these exercises? It's appalling. She has no business being in a FITNESS magazine. She does not portray an image of a truly FIT woman. Just because someone is "thin" doesn't mean she is FIT, and if you are going to use IMAGES to convey a message of fitness, then you should at least use content that does not create such an glaring disconnect between the written message and the visual message.
It seems to me that anything you WRITE with regards to nutrition and exercise is merely lip service when coupled with imagery such as that found in the Dangerous Curves feature. I wonder how many of your very own staff members have these misconceived notions of what it means to be fit.
I don't know why I even bother writing this letter. I have little faith that the media will ever change the way it portrays FITNESS. Those of us who are truly fit, those of us know the joys of a healthy lifestyle, the power of proper nutrition and hard work at the gym -- we are the lucky ones who will never spend hours wasting away on a treadmill chasing after our personal version of YOUR idea of fitness. I feel sorry for those women who don't know any better.
Ivonne
Thanks.. The chick in the photos really looks disgusting. The photos in this magazine always piss me off, but today, i guess i just had very little patience, and it just totally fired me up more than usual. Hahaha i hope they read it and i hope it gets passed around.Burner02 said:Hey! That was AWESOME! Good job! Hopefully someone will read it...
Gee...any relation to M&F?GoalGetter said:Thanks.. The chick in the photos really looks disgusting. The photos in this magazine always piss me off, but today, i guess i just had very little patience, and it just totally fired me up more than usual. Hahaha i hope they read it and i hope it gets passed around.![]()