Customer Reviews

Onfitness

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After searching for quite some time for a fitness magazine which was not a men's magazine masquerading in disguise I was pleased to find OnFitness.

The information in OnFitness is high quality and addresses a wide variety of topics (i.e., information about fitness and well-being for children, women who are pregnant, people who are aging and so on have appeared in recent issues).

While the magazine is not as thick as other health magazines it also has a fraction of the advertising space found in many other fitness magazines (so page for page you get more out of it).

I highly reccomend this magazine to anyone wanting to get accurate and useful information about fitness. This is one health magazine that you do not need to feel embarrased having it lay around and at the same time that you can use.

OnFitness Magazine, on first glance, is a flashy magazine with graphics and a lot of content. However, when you open it up and start reading, you'll see most of the content is just blurbs or short summaries of content that can be found elsewhere. It is the Readers Digest of fitness magazines, with some added computer generated graphics.

The publisher is also extremely customer unfriendly. Their twitter and Facebook pages are generally nothing more than spam links back to the subscription page. Obviously, that is OK on occasion, but why bother even posting when every tweet and message is a spam link back to the subscription page of their website. Don't expect anything from their website either, as the technology is years old and there is no content.

As an indication of how customer unfriendly they are, I send a polite tweet and suggested they occasionally link to some content (articles, authors, studies, etc.) to get a few more than 180 followers (pathetic for a national magazine). They responded by blocking me - apparently the Twitter account is managed by a teenage intern with a poor attitude and zero sense about social media. They claim to have a "higher standard of fitness journalism," and "no hype" but they have shown that the people behind the scenes are the opposite and are on the lower end of journalism (and pride and marketing sense).

Just think about it - a magazine that has not caught on has a Twitter and FB account, and rather than use them to invite people to review and discuss actual content, it is used by someone only as spam links and to block the few followers because they had the nerve to suggest using twitter to an advantage. If they don't have basic common sense to use social media in this age, other than their own personal snits, why trust them for any other content?

If you see this in the gym, certainly pick it up. However, if you want to pay, first take a look at the Twitter feed for something like Mens Health or other magazines. You'll get more free content in 2 days than OnFitness has in their magazine (yes, you have to filter some fluff). I see many of the reviews are several years ago, but now there is no reason to pay money to get content you can already get immediately, for free. There are no workout plans, etc., that other magazines include. If you follow a few fitness sources on twitter (and add in Dr. Eades, Dr. Taube, maybe even Jillian or Oz), you are getting the content you need.

In short, the publishers are years behind the times, unfriendly to customers and subscribers, and their obviously limited marketing talents are not a good sign for handing over a premium price for a subscription and risking them tanking.

This has to be the best fitness magazine ever. This covers everything. I found it to be an irreplaceable training companion. The editorial staff does a fabulous job of getting the information to you in a readable format. I felt that I could truly believe (for once) and trust the information that I was reading. No fluffy rambling and bad workout routines and neither is it stuffed full of advertising from unscrupulous advertisers.

Great to see the independent publishers striking out on what is a highly dominated market to bring the reader a legible, intelligent read.

Finally a fitness publication gets it right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was very impressed when reading this magazine. I simply could not put it down. Packed full with really useful and intelligent advice on many topics of health and nutrition. I have read two copies so far and both featured fantastic interview material with Frank Zane and Dave Draper by the Editor in Chief, Joseph Grassadonia. A truly gifted interviewer.
Training and nutrition were covered in detail and I loved how they feature beautiful wholesome natural models instead of anorexic freaks, which I really disapprove of in fitness magazines.
A+(...)

If you are tired of the typical fitness magazines filled with 90%advertising and 10% credible fitness information then you'll like OnFitness magazine. You'll find yourself reading EVERY page of the magazine rather than flipping through pages and pages of advertisements. It's not a cheap subscription though. For the price, we should get 12 issues rather than 6, however, I still prefer this magazine over any other fitness magazine.

In the July/August issue, the 'Clean Nutrition Report' recommends two products and lo and behold, these two products are full size ads, inside covers for the magazine. I question this recommendation with these organizations placing ads. Who is supporting whom? I also disagree with its Career Guide on obtaining Personal Trainer education. None of these schools are accredited by National education agencies. They have big names but considered bogus education.
Why wouldn't one go to a 'real' school and university and obtain valid credentials? I could sit at home and be fat and earn a degree from one of these schools . I question this magazine and its 'knowledge' base; and sure disagree with the promotion of "No Hype! Only the Truth" campaign of this magazine. And $53.00 for a subscription? Wow. Just not convinced of its material with ads that directly correlate to recommended products and listing schools that are not true university level schools.

This fitness magazine is marginal at best.

There are some excellent contributions from Dave Draper, Frank Zane and Larry Scott. However, other contributors do not measure up to the two Mr.Olympias and Mr. America.

Often, the articles have been poorly researched, poorly edited, sensationalized, and the quality of the actual writing is bad.

Personally, I find the magazine to not be one of the better health/fitness magazines that I have come across. There are better offerings out there.