BodySpace Official News Blog

If you’re a fellow Facebook fanatic like a fistful of other frenzied, frenetic fitness freaks, please join the BodySpace group on Facebook!

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=30367071725

Fabulous - see you there! 

We just started a new contest that will hopefully pique your interest!  It’s called "Iron Man Magazine Presents The Bodybuilding.com Model Search Brought To You By BodySpace."  Long title, but definitely worth it!

Vote for your favorite aspiring models to get a cover photo shoot on Iron Man Magazine here:

http://www.bodybuilding.com/ironman_model_search_voting.htm

Or, if you would like to be on the cover, then sign up here:

http://www.bodybuilding.com/ironman_model_search.htm

Good luck to all BodySpace members! 

Check out this outstanding female fat-loss transformation that our CEO, Ryan DeLuca, noticed today on BodySpace!

Tiffany Forni in Oregon, USA.  From 235 pounds and unhappy:

To a little better, but still with a self-described “muffin top” that she is going to “murder”:

To a model and figure competitor in less than two years:

At one point, she lost 70 pounds in three months.  And how did she do it? Here’s her latest BodyBlog entry about her figure competition:

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“One year ago I would have NEVER thought that I could be on stage in a tiny bikini and heels posing… wow.. what an incredible difference.  I have had a great time through all of this contest prep work and changing myself for the better.  I can’t wait to do my second show this saturday.  I know the blogs are few and far between as of lately but I have been crazy busy doing modeling stuff and now a movie!  WOO HOO!  I’ve been colored with a happy crayon!  Wait for links on my page to the pix from the contest.  Can’t wait to show them!  And to everyone who has cheered me on.. THANK YOU!  Thank you all so much.  The Bodybuilding.com community has been the most supportive, understanding, and fun group out there.  Wow… still.  I am amazed.  Thank you again.”

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Check out her profile and all of her BodyBlog entries, her supplements and dozens of progress pics:

http://bodyspace.bodybuilding.com/31233/

So are we! 

It seems that the porn spammers of the world have finally found BodySpace, and are flooding our BodyBlogs with hundreds of thousands of porn link-riddled spam messages.  Ugh.

If your email inbox is therefore getting hundreds (or thousands!) of email notifications from this activity, you can turn off email notifications for blog comments via your Blog admin panel.

Also, if the comments are actually making it past moderation and being displayed on your blog, you can tighten up your spam restrictions so that they can’t pass, also via your Blog admin panel.

Here’s what the blog comment moderation page looks like:

Give it a shot, and give your inbox a break!  We’re working on a method to globally address this problem, but it’ll be a few more weeks before it’s implemented.  In the mean time, by adjusting your settings you can minimize the hassle that these unscrupulous vermin of the web have thrust upon us. 

Check out this great story from the CEO and founder of Bodybuilding.com, Ryan DeLuca, about the state of the nation’s economic crisis and it’s non-impact upon Bodybuilding.com.  Very inspirational!

Click on the smart little pig to read Ryan’s thoughts:

Enjoy! 

As many of you know, BodySpace member ‘dalotajr‘ (Tracy) won our recent 2008 Olympia forum contest.

She sent in her tapes, and now the first part of her Olympia trip video footage is up for viewing on our 2008 Olympia videos page:

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/2008_olympia_video.htm#dalotajr

Give it a peek!  Thanks, Tracy - part 2 will be up in a few days! 

Photo of Tracy and Friends from this year’s “Meet the Olympians”.

And check out the Olympia Blog for Tracy’s post-Olympia recap and commentary!