Adonis Index on MensHealth.com

February 11, 2011

If you check out the homepage for Men’s Health Magazine you will notice something interesting.
On the right hand side there’s a very familiar looking calculator. Heck they even call it the Adonis Index!
Great News!
Unfortunately it goes kinda downhill from there.
Downhill part one is that they are using the Adonis Index to promote their own product.
Downhill part two they got the actual calculation wrong!
Men’s Health is using the Chest to Waist Ratio, not Shoulder to Waist.
From my experience that’s a big mistake.
Back when I was really into power lifting I had a 44 inch chest and 47.5 inch shoulders.
I can tell you that this was a BAD look.
I was a barrel.
My T-shirts either a) hung off my chest like a bell, making my stomach look fat or,
b) were tight enough to fit my stomach, but made me look like I had man-boobs.
After altering my workouts for the better part of […]

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