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The biggest and most popular online bodybuilding web site, bodybuilding.com offers a wide collection of bodybuilding articles, a BodySpace feature (social networking for its fitness/bodybuilding members), a very busy forum, and much more. Navigation is fairly simple and easy to use, although the web site design appears to be slightly dated for a web site of this magnitude (if I was being picky!), and the white text on a black background is not always popular with some people. Bodybuilding.com offers a pleasurable visitors experience with minimal adverts, with any at all appearing to be in house promotion for the bodybuilding.com online store.
The only notable downside to bodybuilding.com is its forum atmosphere. Being such a busy forum it would be expected to be difficult to eliminate all negative or pointless threads and posts, but bodybuilding.com seems to take this another level with its minimum moderating. Name calling and childish outbursts are not uncommon on bodybuilding.com‘s forums, although I guess we must not let this put a shadow over the many great forum contributors there are on bodybuilding.com. I personally believe many of the smaller scale forums on the net do offer a much nicer experience for members because negative and trolling members can get wormed out easier, moreover active moderators can keep a lid on any negativity to a greater degree. The issue of forum atmosphere also is dependant on what you are after from a community you wish to be a part of.
Overall, bodybuilding.com is one of the premier bodybuilding websites on the planet, highly recommended.
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Get ready to invest in a pair of sunglasses before visiting t-nation.com, then sit back and enjoy the Las Vega experience! The "in your face" appearance is a much love or hate aspect of t-nation.com, with most pages containing large advertising for brightly coloured (and interesting looking!) supplements they have for sale on site, coupled with the large and bright images used as titles and headers for various sections of the site. It all seems rather negative so far? Well, the above does not bother everybody, t-nation wouldn‘t be as popular as it is if it did. T-nation has a very large collection of well written bodybuilding articles which offer mainly decent advice for trainers from various authors, with the archive stretching all the way from 2008 back from 1998. T-nation also has a full list of its authors, which allows visitors to find articles that were wrote by a specific author, such as Christian Thibaudeau and Chad Waterbury.
The t-nation forum is popular, and for newbies asking questions relating to training there seems to be a helpful member base willing to offer advice. The forum structure is not to my taste, but then again, neither is much of the rest of the site (bright colours on black gives me a headache!). That said, t-nation is a great bodybuilding resource and comes much recommended.
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www.muscletalk.co.uk is a popular UK based bodybuilding community, co-owned by nutritionist James Collier who is the head moderator on the forums. MT, as it is commonly know, has progressively grown over the years and is now one of the largest UK based bodybuilding communities, with an excess of 30,000 registered members. The forum often offers a much pleasurable experience compared to many of the larger boards, with a much less tolerance for abusive and useless topics. The forum has undergone an upgrade in August of 2008, and the overall forum layout and structure is easily navigated. MT does have third party advertisements, although the adverts are not particularly intrusive or unsightly.
There is a decent collection of articles on muscletalk.co.uk, many well written by professionals, and also those composed by forum members. There is no fancy other features on muscletalk.co.uk that you find on the larger sites previously mentioned, such as social networking or blogging applications, although MT‘s simple approach is executed well.
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Although exrx.net is clearly not as commercially geared compared to the web sites we have listed thus far, it does have very useful resources for those into bodybuilding and weight lifting. The well established site contains many useful pages for beginners, loosing fat, weight management, and weight trainers, all very accessible via the side navigation. The site contains minimal adverts, only noteable are some Google adverts, and adverts for useful looking training books exrx.net has for sale on their online store.
The very popular feature of exrx.net that receives a lot of interest is the exercise instructional pages that contains instructions, muscles that the exercise targets, and also a very useful animated gif image that shows how to perform the exercise.
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