Column: Health and fitness magazines take different approaches when motivating women and men

I'm one of those women who likes reading men's health and fitness magazines. Though they all promise bodies and sex lives that most of us will never have, I'm drawn to the funny, self-deprecating tone, the functional workout tips and the emphasis on sweat, competition and strength training.

Men's, women's magazines take different fitness tacks

I'm one of those women who likes reading men's health and fitness magazines. Though they all promise bodies and sex lives that most of us will never have, I'm drawn to the funny, self-deprecating tone, the functional workout tips and the emphasis on sweat, competition and strength training.

Fitness factions: Health and fitness magazines take different approaches when motivating women and men

By Julie Deardorff

Imitation not always a form of flattery

When I was a kid, my dad often said, “there’s a reason for everything.” As the years have passed, his comments, while still profound, ring true in multiple facets of my life -- including functional fitness and movement.

Asheville area fitness calendar for the next few weeks.

WHITE SQUIRREL RACE: 5K and 10K races 8 a.m. Saturday. Check in at Brevard Music Center’s Strauss Auditorium. Register at www.brevardrotary.org . $25 age 19-64, $20 students and seniors. Fee $5 more after May 20. Also Firecracker Run July 4 and Flight of the Vampire Oct. 27.