Manning Gottlieb executive director of press Mark Gallagher said even the weekly titles would struggle to put on sales in the latest batch of six-monthly circulation results, due to be released on 16 August.
"I think there'll be more carnage in the men's market," he said.
"In the women's monthlies, there'll be declines. Weeklies will be stable. I don't see any large growth anywhere."
IPC Ignite managing director Eric Fuller has also predicted another bad spell for men's monthlies such as FHM, Maxim and Loaded, which all posted losses of between 25% and 30% in the last set of results.
"In the round, I think that the men's market is going to be down again," he said. "The monthlies will be worse hit than the weeklies."
In the women's market, Look - IPC's high-street fashion rival to Grazia - is widely expected to post an impressive debut ABC, six months after launching into the already crowded weekly market.
Among women's titles that are expecting to grow is She, which could have double-digit growth. Zest and Cosmopolitan are also expected to see an increase.
Cosmo publishing director Justine Southall said: "I don't think it's doom and gloom. It's cyclical - it was only 10 years ago that we said the weeklies were dead."
However, the double-digit declines in some mainstream women's monthlies are expected to continue, with Condé Nast's Glamour and Emap's New Woman (NW) understood to have suffered heavy losses.
Emap Elan managing director David Davies maintained that NW still had a role to play in the market. "We want to keep NW for the consumer who wants that lean-back, monthly feel," he said. "There are consumers who still want that."
Reacting to Glamour's decision last month to cut its cover price from £2.20 to £2 in the run-up to the ABCs, Davies said it was "not a sign of confidence".
Universal McCann head of press Dan Pimm said Glamour was as throwaway as the weeklies and was likely to take a hit.
United Kingdom
Many consumer mags set for ABC declines
LONDON - The men's magazine sector is Âpreparing itself for what looks to be a disappointing batch of consumer magazine ABC figures, with one head of press predicting "carnage" in the mainstream men's monthlies once again.