Which popular magazine was published first, Inside Sports or Men's Fitness?
Inside Sports Inside Sports magazine was a major general interest sports magazine in the United States. Launched in 1979 by Newsweek, it was designed as an edgier, monthly alternative to the longer-running "Sports Illustrated" and "SPORT Magazine" brands. In addition to 12 issues a year, it featured a "Swimsuit Spectacular" ("IS"' answer to the famous Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue).
Werner Hoeger Werner Hoeger (Mérida, Venezuela, 15 December 1953-) is a professor emeritus (active) of exercise science at Boise State University and author of nine different "fitness & wellness" textbooks. He has written a total of 62 editions of these books. He is one of the most widely read fitness and wellness college authors in the United States. He was the first author to write a college-level fitness book to incorporate the "wellness" concept with the publication of "Lifetime Physical Fitness & Wellness: A Personalized Program" in 1986 (now in its 14th edition, Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, 2017). His title "Fitness & Wellness" (Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, 2017, 12th edition) is a concise book for introductory courses and for the general public that provides the necessary guidelines to enhance health and quality of life through a comprehensive fitness and wellness program. He is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and also of the Research Consortium of SHAPE America. A gymnast in his youth, he later took up the sport of luge and participated in two Olympic Winter Games (2002 and 2006).