Wow – what a ruckus this has caused over at AOL Sports Blog.
Now I don’t usually waste my time with sports talk (I even managed to not brag about my alma mater Duke lacrosse team – yet. Besides, as a Baltimore native, I’ll conveniently take credit for a Hopkins championship, too).
My contacts, however, told me I had to come to the defense of my friends over at Men’s Fitness for this recent cover of featuring tennis star, Andy Roddick, as their fitness model.
(Did you know I’ve been “banned” from working with Men’s Fitness because their fancy models couldn’t handle the last workout I wrote for the magazine?)
Here’s what I had to say in the Comments section over at AOL:
I’ve done numerous articles with Men’s Fitness and know several of the editors and writers. To my knowledge, they have never digitally enhanced anything more than the standard, minor retouching like blemish “removal,” for example.
They do, however, make optimal use of tricks like the biceps one mentioned above, pumping up immediately before the photo shoot, carb loading or depletion (depending on the look you want – big and bulky vs. lean and ripped), and lighting techniques that magically take off ten pounds in just minutes.
A PhotoShop’d cover would completely destroy the integrity of the magazine. (C’mon, stop that snickering – some magazines actually do have integrity.)
- Stephen Holt
2003 American Council on Exercise, “Personal Trainer of the Year”
http://BabyBoomerFitnessExpert.com
It wasn’t hype. I’m sticking by it.
Even though though the photo does look a little “fishy.”
What do you think?
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