FitConnect.com fitness community to share fitness tips,
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FitConnect.com - It's ok to brag!
Description
Excerpted from the website:
- FitConnect is an online social community created for everyone to stay focused on their health & fitness. People of all levels of interest in an active lifestyle can benefit from the use of our site. FitConnect allows you to share tips, recipes, organize fitness goals, and create the best plan for achieving these goals. Beginning January 2008, we will have a limited beta release with a full public release following.
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Additional Information
Why FitConnect was created... The Health & Fitness industry is overflowing with fad diets, workout plans, and supplement products that all make bold claims about results. It's hard to know which is best for you. Employees at stores that sell supplements often try and push the new products on you without really even knowing anything about them; meanwhile, the internet is a mess when it comes to getting information. You can spend hours browsing through forums and come out with hundreds of conflicting opinions. We wanted to provide a way for users to get unbiased information and make comparing results transparent. Rather than see what a single user likes, why not find out that 78% of the users on the site use product A. It's a much more efficient method of finding out information. The same applies to other areas of our site, including recipes and tips. You will be able to check out recipes that are top ranked and reviewed, rather than browse huge cookbooks for healthy recipes. We also wanted to provide a single spot for users to track their progress over time. By combining the supplements being taken, the recipes being used, the diet and exercise routines being followed, members can get a snapshot of their entire fitness/diet. Using stats and progress pictures, members can monitor what combinations were successful for achieving their goals.
Who can benefit from FitConnect... Everyone! This is not a bodybuilding website, although bodybuilders are always welcome to join and share their knowledge. This site is created for people of all fitness levels and exercise interests. Fitness professionals can benefit by promoting themselves, however, we have a code of conduct restricting spam and other bothersome promotional tactics. To find out how to promote yourself while abiding by our code of conduct, check out our promotional help page.
What can you do on FitConnect... FitConnect has many features that allow you to learn more, stay motivated, maintain organization, and socialize. Users are free to utilize these features as much or as little as they please. The more you put into it, the more you get out of it.
Fitness Centers
The core of our site involves connecting users to their local fitness centers. Users can affiliate themselves with their exercise venue by joining their online fitness community. Users can socialize with the members of their local gym, gymnastics center, martial arts center, and more.
Tips
Our Tips section evens the score by connecting the fitness gurus with beginners who are still learning. The validity of a tip is determined by user reviews and feedback. When a tip receives "certified status" it has been determined a helpful tip by the majority of members.
Recipes
Spice up your eating habits by browsing other member recipes or show off your own skills in the kitchen by submitting how to make your favorite dish. Real pros submit a video showing exactly how the cooking is done.
Blogs
If you kept a workout journal or had a personal fitness magazine, would people read it? Now you can find out. Blogs can be used to track a workout cycle, create a personal fitness magazine, or just randomly express your feelings toward exercise at the moment.
Groups
Connect with other members by common interest, goal, or feeling of expression. Keep your workout friends or sports teammates connected by creating a group as a bond.
Syncs
Instead of paying money to subscribe to a magazine that contradicts itself every month in order to provide material in between ads, now you can subscribe to specific FitConnect member material. Find someone who really knows what they’re talking about, and has pictures to prove it, and 'sync' to their tips, recipes, blogs etc.
The FitConnect Difference...
Our site is not supported or endorsed by any outside parties selling supplements, fad diets, or workout plans. The FitConnect staff, aside from their own personal user-profiles and postings, does not offer any advice, tips, or reviews. Meanwhile, other than FitConnect apparel, we do not support, sell, or distribute any fitness related products. Any advertisements viewed on this site are claims from outside companies. FitConnect has no opinion on their validity. We value the trust of our members.
Importance of Safety (Online and Off)... Safety is important when using both the social and fitness features of our site. Please understand that people on this site may not be who you actually think they are. It is very important to avoid meeting up with members of FitConnect in person, due to the threat of online predators. We recommend users keep contact information a secret. Please review our privacy policy for more information on how to keep your info private. Also, we want to remind users to take precaution when seeking guidance from other members. No information on this site should be treated as medical advice and is not verified to work, or guaranteed not to be harmful. Please consult a medical physician before using any of the tips, workouts, supplements, etc. found on this site. It’s better to be safe than skinny, strong, and athletic.
It’s ok to brag... There is a different form of etiquette on FitConnect. It’s socially acceptable to brag about your gains, (weight) losses, and dedication. Feel free to express yourself and impress others with your pictures. Meanwhile, we want all members to feel comfortable posting their weight, stats, and progress pictures, so we have privacy preferences allowing you to moderate who can view certain aspects of your profile. Please keep the confident spirit by sending Brags to others. Sending a brag does not mean that you’re in love with the person (unless stated otherwise), so don’t be shy about telling people that "it’s ok to brag."
The Future... FitConnect is currently in beta mode, meaning the site is still a work in progress. We will be adding many features, such as size and weight tracking, in the near future. You can stay updated on our progress by following the FC Blog.
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