Did Men's Fitness Pump Up Andy Roddick?

There's no denying that tennis champ Andy Roddick is in great shape, but do his head and new super-buff body match up on the cover of Men's Fitness? Advantage, Roddick!

The normally ripped but lean 24-year-old sports a pair of killer guns and diesel pecs on the cover of the mag's June/July issue that have some believing his pic was altered Kate Winslet style! In 2003, Winslet's British GQ cover photos were retouched to make her look thinner. Fault!

The question in Roddick's case is: Did they add more meat to his bones or is it just a case of the ol' cross the arms and press the biceps against the other arm trick? You know what we're talkin' about fellas! Whether due to a trainer or a photo editor, Andy sure does look good!

Calls to reps for Men's Fitness and Andy Roddick were not immediately returned. Game, set, match!



Tags: Andy Roddick, AndyRoddick

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31. they must have hired Beyonce's Photoshop guru...

Posted at 5:12PM on May 18th 2007 by craven

32. Pure Comedy...hahahahahahaha..

Posted at 8:04PM on May 18th 2007 by Afternoon Special

33. LOL ... women's mags do this kind of altering all the time -- not great shock that a men's mag would do it as well ...

Posted at 5:55PM on May 18th 2007 by WDS

34. The stupid morons at the magazine. all they would have had to do was put his neck the same conjunction with is arms.. but even than gay men it's hard to tell.

Posted at 8:22PM on May 18th 2007 by Doug

35. Roddick's body was perfect the way it was: lean and fit, like every other active tennis player. They should have left it alone.

Posted at 8:26AM on May 19th 2007 by dave

36. Yeah, #6! I work in the graphic design industry. It probably was outsourced to India!!!!

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 8:28PM on May 18th 2007 by Dee

37. you would think they would have the skill to get a good body shot.I mean if there good at editing other pix why slump at this one,perhaps they had a rookie do this.but then again why would they publish it

Posted at 8:45PM on May 18th 2007 by Chris

38. This is such a BAD JOB, why would he agree to this? I hope he didn't. Look how much BIGGER his right arm is than his left arm. Even from this angle you can tell it is waaay off. His head looks cartoony small compared to the rest of his body.

Posted at 9:19PM on May 18th 2007 by K

39. That's completely fake. Advertisements' tricks, as usual...

Posted at 11:37PM on May 20th 2007 by Lynn

40. You could put a chimpanzee on the cover and some moron from Twintits, Utah will gush, "OOOOOOOOOOOH, HE'S SOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOT"!

Posted at 1:40AM on May 19th 2007 by Prince Romanoff

41. Hmmm...I'm pretty sure that's Roddick's body. If you'll check out the left and right forearms, his left forearm (and entire arm in general) is smaller than the right. This is from playing right hand dominant. That larger right forearm and bicep is what adds that much more force, pace and pop to his serves and forehand winners.

Easier to tell topless, though - his abs don't lineup because the left side gets crunched during the motion of his serve. When you practice serves as religiously as Roddick does, the abs aren't going to develop symmetrically.

Posted at 4:52AM on May 20th 2007 by Oberst

42. that's definitely not andy's body...his arms arent that big plus where's his birthday mark?

Posted at 12:12PM on May 22nd 2007 by samy

43. From Andy's official website.

"I spent the last few weeks in Austin really focused on my training and getting back into shape…but pretty sure I’m not as fit as the Men’s Fitness cover suggests…little did I know I have 22 inch guns and a disappearing birth mark on my right arm. I saw the cover for the first time when I landed after Rome…it was pretty funny…I walked by the newsstand in the airport and did a total double take …I can barely figure out how to work the red-eye tool on my digital camera…whoever did this has mad skills…maybe Rafael Nadal wants his arms back?…if you can manage to stop laughing at the cover long enough, check out the article inside, the photo shoot on the boat was pretty cool..and I recognize the person in those photos…"


Posted at 2:30PM on May 22nd 2007 by Altered

44. i don't think you could call those "guns" ...

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Posted at 5:57PM on Aug 2nd 2007 by jeff

45. I spend all day photoshopping images so I know what to look for. This ain't close to real, his head isn't even on correctly—it's a separate photo. BAD graphic designer! NO latte!

Posted at 2:22PM on May 25th 2007 by Artoo45

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