BodySpace Official News Blog

Ah, the joys of slow blogging… Not.  The recent slowdown of blogging (posting would take up to 2 minutes) was caused by a recent implementation of ‘Update Services’ pinging each time a blog was updated.  This feature is a good thing, and helps to attract the search engines to your blog, but it was discovered that a couple of the services we were pinging were taking too long to respond, so…

Those services have been skipped, and now blogging is much faster for everyone.  What used to take anywhere from 45 to 120 seconds, now only takes around 5 seconds.  Kudos to Mike for fixing this!  =)

In this light-hearted parody, featured BodySpace member “Madfun” has his recent blog entry read by a distinguished orator.  Follow along:

“I frikken hate to train legs!

But I hate the idea of having “sticks” under a well developed upper body more, so I train them. I basically vary the bulk of my work between free squats, sled machine squats, hack squats, leg exts, leg curls, and basic calf raises.

I admit I don’t train as heavy as most guys who are planning on changing tires on a 1947 Buick without a jack, but I make my share of gains. At least my legs and ass don’t look silly.

I decided to do standing calf raises a few nights ago. I hadn’t done them in god knows when, but I have been doing seated calf raises and burning the crap outta my calves!

I figured since I have been doing the seated raises, the standing raises would be just a small angle type difference and I should tear into them like I rip into every other movement. I should know better and:.

I WAS EFFING Wrong!

3 days out and I am death walks the dog. I try and take a step and it’s like someone is hitting the back of my calves with a baseball bat! Oh the humanity!

I will switch leg day around and hit legs again on Friday nite to give maximum recovery time.

Just wait till I hit that machine again!”

Who will be next?
Right-click and “save file as…” to download the MP3 (2:07 - 1.94 MB).

This week’s new round of 16 featured BodySpace members is now up on the main page of our website.  Are you one of them?  Check them out, here:

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/

Scroll down to the "Community" section, and see the four new BodySpace/Forum members being featured in each of these 4 categories:

Featured BodySpace Profiles
Featured BodyBlogs
Featured Forum Threads
Featured Photo Galleries

Enjoy!  =)

‘Nuff said.  Those that were abusing the system have been banned.

Yes, folks, it’s official - BodySpace now has over 30,000 active members!  Tell your friends - let’s double and triple that number before the 2007 Arnold Classic in March!

A heartfelt and warm "Congratulations!" go out to IFBB Masters World Champion, Bob Cicherillo, and his lovely wife, Tocha, on the birth of their baby girl, Milania Sofia Cicherillo! 

Milania was born last night, early evening, and details can be found here on the forums:

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=1133661

This week’s new round of 16 featured BodySpace members is now up on the main page of our website.  Are you one of them?  Check them out, here:

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/

Scroll down to the "Community" section, and see the 4 BodySpace/Forum features in these categories:

Featured BodySpace Profiles
Featured BodyBlogs
Featured Photo Galleries
Featured Forum Threads

Enjoy!  =)

The Bodybuilding.com forums and BodySpace were "digged” (or ‘dugg’) last night and this morning because of a series of stories about fast food on the forums.  Check it out:

http://digg.com/offbeat_news/My_15_eventful_days_of_employment_at_Burger_King

So, if the forums seem a little slow, it’s because of the added traffic! 

From now through January 31, 2007 only, get 5% off on selected products and brands at the Bodybuilding.com online store!

Poor ‘ol Skippy has been locked away all weekend in a damp, dank dungeon cranking out BodySpace code in a Herculean effort to try and appease the insatiable Greek fitness gods of Mount Olympia.

The more-than-mere-mortal results can now be seen on your individual “Progress” pages:

Check it out to see your stats history and all of your bodypart graphs - all in one convenient location!  Kudos, Skip! 

Okay, it’s safe to say Scott and Z-Man got a little carried away with the whole graphing thing…  Now, instead of just a weight chart, there are also graphs for just about everything else, too!  You’ll find them on your profile in the BodyStats section - if, that is, you’ve been tracking your stats regularly over time:

The new-fangled, über sweetness of the whole deal is, however, that each graph can be viewed as a large, pop-up, animated Flash chart - optimized specifically for your viewing pleasure:

Kudos, guys! 

Skippy squashed a minor bug this morning involving botched gallery pic thumbnails breaking the layout of BodySpace profiles.  Kudos to h@rdc0re for inadvertantly bringing this to our attention.

Have you heard the buzz?  Join us for the first-ever Gold Room BodySpace Meet & Greet Party at the 2007 Iron Man Pro in Los Angeles, California!!

Mix and mingle with the Bodybuilding.com BodySpace community.  Hosted bar and appetizers will be served before and during the show!

Date: Saturday, February 17, 2007

Time: 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. PST

Location: Loge Section, Pasadena Civic Auditorium, 300 E Green St, Pasadena, California, USA

Cost: $20.00 USD (also includes a Bodybuilding.com Privileged Special Entry ticket to Iron Man Pro Finals, general admission ticket to The Fit Expo on Saturday, and Entrance to Hosted Bar, & Free Appetizers!)

Door Prize: Win $100 Contest Prize for the Sexiest Dressed Male, Female, and Couple!

For More Details And To Order Tickets, Visit:
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/bodyspaceparty.htm

Earlier today, Arnold Skippeneggar added a new search criteria to the Advanced Search page: searching by weight chart.

If you check the box, the results list you get back will be filtered by only those that have weight charts, as indicated by the little blue graph icon.  Nice, Skip! 

This week’s new round of 16 featured BodySpace members is now up on the main page of our website.  Are you one of them?  Check them out, here:

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/

Scroll down to the "Community" section, and see the 4 BodySpace/Forum features in these categories:

Featured BodySpace Profiles
Featured BodyBlogs
Featured Photo Galleries
Featured Forum Threads

Enjoy!  =)

Zeke and Skippy have teamed up to bring us weight charting capabilities!  If you have at least two weight data points (you’ve entered your weight on at least two different dates) in your BodyStats, you’ll now see a nice, shiny blue weight graph detailing your progress!  For example:

(More graphs on the way, folks!)  Kudos, guys! 

A minor bug was squashed today (by Marvelous Mike) where author blog posts were being miscounted.  Thanks to the lovely Vanessa (dvsness) for reporting this. 

When you click on the BodyBlog main page now, you’ll see that it’s been given a beautiful facelift!

Kudos go out to Jeran for his mad graphix skillz. 

Who was it?  Click here to find out:

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/bodyspace2006dec.htm

Okay, okay - it is Jodi Sturdevant, a.k.a. FitNFiesty!  Be sure to check her out!  And don’t forget, you could be next! 

We are proud to announce the beginnings of our your new my.bodybuilding.com site.  It’s eventually going to be the main central hub or dashboard of sorts for Bodybuilding.com that ties together BodySpace with all of our other Bodybuilding.com sites:

  http://my.bodybuilding.com/

In the mean time, however, you can use it to check to see how many BodyPoints you have earned so far… so check it out!  (What are BodyPoints?  Well: go find out!)  

Kudos go out to Mike for handcrafting the BodyPoints system framework and implementation!

UPDATE: You can now also check how many BodyPoints you (and others) have by looking at your BodySpace profile, in the left-hand column under the “Membership Info” section.