A Review: Bodybuilding.com
May 27, 2009 by Tisha Tolar
Filed under Bodybuilding
Bodybuilding.com’s mission is “To help our visitors reach their health, fitness and appearance goals through 
information, motivation and supplementation.” That’s a big goal, does the site live up to it’s mission?
From the homepage, a web visitor is presented with four main options for accessing information: the store, the SuperSite, the BodySpace and the Forums.
In the store, you have access to over 8,500 different products designed for your health and fitness needs – supplements, clothing and accessories. When reading comments about Bodybuilding.com on Amazon – many customers who have made purchases from the store complained that they receive the wrong items. Almost all said they received their orders fast, and that when the orders were wrong they were corrected immediately. The prices of the products are just average – you can probably find the same products for cheaper at other stores and online fitness websites.
The SuperSite is where the main content of the site is. There are over 25,000 pages of articles about bodybuilding, fitness, and health. More than just the general information you find on any fitness website, you can learn strategies for staying fit when on vacation, how to improve your self confidence, tips for bodybuilding competitions, and hundreds of other topics designed to give you health information you can use in real life situations. If reading articles isn’t exactly your thing, you can also access thousands of videos, including complete video series on various topics and how-to instructional exercise videos, workout guides for beginners through experienced, and diet plans to help you get off and running quickly.
You can separate the content within the SuperSite by goal – whether you’re looking to lose weight or build muscle. This helps you focus on your personal goals and avoid being overwhelmed by too much information.
BodySpace is like a MySpace or Facebook for fitness lovers. It helps you track your progress and communicate with other like-minded individuals. In fact, you can communicate with more than 230,000 people through their member profiles and become part of a community of individuals looking to lose weight, become stronger, and live healthier lifestyles. Within the BodySpace portion of the website, you can also start your own fitness blog.
The Forums give you a place to quickly ask questions, and answer questions of other members. More than one million members participate in the Bodybuilding.com forums, giving you access to the information you need in real time. Everything is organized into categories so you can find what you’re looking for without searching through hundreds of thousands of forum posts. You want to be careful when reading information in the forum – as it is participant based and most everyone who participates is not a fitness or health expert – some of the information you read here may be incorrect.
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