Oxygen magazine could be going byebye

I'd love to hear other suggestions as well. Love Oxygen! I will miss it.

Nooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!! I know will not through out my magazines I had for 10 years or more........K xo

I am devastated.

Just read the men's magazines. All of the women's mags are BS. Oxygen was the best of the bunch, but fitness magazines are like razors. The worst of the men's is still better than the best of the women's.

Just read the men's magazines. All of the women's mags are BS. Oxygen was the best of the bunch, but fitness magazines are like razors. The worst of the men's is still better than the best of the women's.

soooo true, which is why i switch back and forth between a mach 3 and a schick quattro

Muscle and Fitness Hers is a close second to Oxygen but frankly I don't think it has as much valuable information.

I've been trying to renew Oxygen for a while, alas it looks like no website is allowing subscriptions anymore so they must really be down and out. Not even the magazine's website has a functional renewal link anymore.



Guess I'd better buy up their last issue at the grocery while I can. Too bad I missed the abs special issue.

***rant***warning***

Gotta admit, I loathe most women's magazines with a passion. They're vain, overly commercialized garbage selling the idea that you need to buy endless amounts of terribly overpriced, dainty stuff to have a happy life. When I buy a magazine I'm often paying to look at someone's shopped pictures of clothes, lamps, purses, etc that I'm supposed to want. It's a waste of sense! And all of those useless health snippets they pull from scientific studies and post in bubbly talk - such as "eat your strawberries !" or "vitamin water is good for you!" are pointless.

The worst part is when the popular women's health magazines post wimpy fitness programs that show genetically pretty, Eastern European clones lifting 3 lb dumbbells. Nobody is going to help out their muscles or bone mass with those low weights. And most of these women just looked like natural ectomorphs with very little muscle tone. Sure they're lovely to look at but women are more than looks and some publishing head probably thinks if a girl's magazine is cutesy and the models are hot that it doesn't actually have to have anything of substance in it for the people who do work out. Oxygen actually had an array of physiques from all sorts of females - tall, short, bulky, slim - and they were all so very fit; you know they worked for it and challenged themselves.
And it's just so freaking awesome to see a lady with power.

/rant off.

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Just read the men's magazines. All of the women's mags are BS. Oxygen was the best of the bunch, but fitness magazines are like razors. The worst of the men's is still better than the best of the women's.

soooo true, which is why i switch back and forth between a mach 3 and a schick quattro

LOL, I never buy women's razors!

i am sitting here with the july issue and can't believe this is it! i hope somebody does something to keep it going:glasses:

I really liked Oxygen, but starting this year I bought maybe 2 or 3 issues, because the magazine went kind of boring. Too bad they're having problems.

I wanted to subscribe because it looked fab! Their website wouldnt let me, so I called a 1-800 # on their website. A recorded message said that the company went out of business and everyone was laid off. No more magazine. Sad I signed up for Shape I guess...I was considering Muscle & Fitness Hers but their website seemed for figure competitors & bikini models...all of which I AM NOT!

Oxygen was as well. M&F Hers is pretty similar to Oxygen.

I hadn't heard about them going out of business.

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Just read the men's magazines. All of the women's mags are BS. Oxygen was the best of the bunch, but fitness magazines are like razors. The worst of the men's is still better than the best of the women's.

Men's fitness mags may be great for the eye candy (from a woman's perspective), but they're junk as far as fitness advice. Thinly-disguised supplement catalogs with ridiculous lifting routines designed by pro bodybuilders who are pumped up on steroids.

What's the one Alan Aragon contributes to? Is that one any better?

He writes a column for Men's Health magazine. Anything Aragon writes is gold (IMO), but the rest of the magazine, as with most of them, is very broscience-y. It's just the nature of the beast for a periodical publication - they can't publish the same stuff month in, month out, so they have to include all manner of articles. Many of them directly contradict each other and a lot of them are designed to sell supplements (since supplement companies are by far the biggest advertisers in fitness magazines). You can pick pearls of wisdom out of the slop pile, but it's a good idea to have your BS detector on and finely tuned to distinguish the trash from the treasure.

It's a shame because although I do most of my reading online at the moment, I really enjoy magazines in general. Something about the shiny pages, maybe? :happy: It appears I'll be sticking to cooking & organizing-type magazines.

I had just renewed Oxygen and Clean Eating and they're both linked to the same publisher/CEO and they're gone. Really ticks me off they can take people's money and run.

This. I was just wondering why I never got the August issue in the mail...now I know. Guess I won't hold my breath waiting for a refund either.