An Update On Visitors Statistics

Many BodySpace members have noticed the "disappearing stats" problem since yesterday, and it took me by surprise, too, LOL.  Here’s the low-down straight from our Development Team: “A change was made to decrease the database writes incurred by profile visits. All of the updates were causing some slave replication lag and would have eventually caused slave [...]

2011 BodySpace Spokesmodel Contest!

Registration is now open for the 2011 Bodybuilding.com BodySpace Spokesmodel Search Contest, Presented by Iron Man Magazine! Sign up now to compete against other BodySpace members for a chance to become the next BodySpace Spokesmodel!  10 finalists will be flown down to Los Angeles next January to compete before a live crowd at the 2011 Los [...]

Planned BB.com & BodySpace Outage

As Bodybuilding.com moves forward with a network upgrade project, our next step will necessitate a site-wide outage. Our goal is to make the transition as quickly as possible, while minimizing the downtime for all users. Our current timeline calls for a site-wide outage beginning tomorrow night at 9:30 p.m. MDT on Wednesday, September 29, 2010 [...]

FYI, Exclusive 2010 Olympia Webcast!

You’ll Have the Best Seat in the House!      Bodybuilding.com, the leader in Internet bodybuilding content, is proud to announce an exclusive agreement that brings the 2010 Joe Weider’s Olympia Weekend to bodybuilding fans around the world.  For the 4th consecutive year, Bodybuilding.com - the world’s #1 most-visited bodybuilding website - will provide a LIVE [...]

2010 PGN Phitness Retreat Contest!

Hey BodySpace members, Bodybuilding.com and PGN Nutrition are proud to offer a new contest to our customers, entitled "The 2010 Phitness Retreat Competition!   " Win an all-expense paid trip to train with 2x Ms. Fitness International and 2x Ms. Olympia Jen Hendershott at one of her upcoming Phitness Retreats! The grand prize winner will receive an all-expense [...]

Wallpaper: BodySpace Member Featured!

Congratulations go out to popular BodySpace Member Parker Cote (clutch401) for recently being featured on Bodybuilding.com as one of the Featured Wallpapers! Parker is also currently featured on the Bodybuilding.com landing page, as well! Congratulations, clutch401! 

Lots of Exciting Things Coming Soon!

Well, it’s been a fast and furious couple of weeks, and we (as an entire company) are working hard on some really exciting additions for the entire site (coming soon)!  In the mean time, some minor site updates (like the Daily Featured BodySpace Member) are being placed on hold to free up some more resources.  [...]

Scheduled Site-Wide Bodybuilding.com Outage Tonight

We will be having a site-wide outage late tonight (actually tomorrow morning, Wednesday, July 14th from 12:30AM to 1:30AM) while we perform maintenance on our internal storage arrays.  During that time all public facing websites (Store, Bodyspace, Forums, SuperSite, Groups, Blogs, etc.) will be displaying a maintenance page instead of the usual content. For status updates, [...]

BodySpace iPhone App: Now Available!

In case you haven’t heard, the new BodySpace iPhone App is now available!  Get it in the Apple iTunes App Store! For details and a preview, click here!

Independence Day Holiday Weekend!

FYI, the Daily Featured Member highlights are being paused for a few days due to 4th of July festivities (the U.S. Independence Day holiday weekend). Highlighted members will recommence mid-next week.  In the mean time, and to rouse your patriotism this weekend, please check out BodySpace member Mikiko   and her new patriotic wallpaper! Download one today, [...]

Today’s Daily Featured Member!

The featured BodySpace Member for today is doctorstacy! Stacy has been a member of BodySpace since January 30, 2009.  She is an Emergency Medicine Physician, a happily married military wife & mother of three children.  Her current goal is to complete her first marathon this coming October! Visit doctorstacy’s BodySpace Profile, Photo Gallery, Progress Pictures, and BodyBlog [...]

BodySpace’s Daily Featured Member!

The featured BodySpace Member for today is flexkitten! Katie Madden has been a member of the Bodybuilding.com community since June 4, 2006 (2½ months before BodySpace even started)!  Right from the beginning, however, Katie was spotted and featured as a fitness hottie.  And for good reason: you’d never suspect this 5’4”/135 lb bombshell is 51 years [...]

Yesterday’s Featured BodySpace Member!

The featured BodySpace Member of the Day (for yesterday) is TrainMeTrev! Trever is a fairly new BodySpace member (he joined on October 28, 2009), and fitness & nutrition are definitely his passion. They help him stay on point, level-headed and feeling like a million bucks!  He currently weighs 174 lbs (79.1 kg), is at 10% body [...]

Forthcoming BodySpace Fixes

The word from Jed Reese (the Social Media Product Owner for Bodybuilding.com) is that the following BodySpace bugs should be fixed soon: BodyGroup invitation counts not synchronized BodyStats/Lifting Stats & Goals not reflecting current value Uploaded photos getting stuck in the processing queue Skype icon missing in forums Photo Gallery ‘Rated On’ missing timestamps Fatal error when creating new BodyGroup - [...]

Today’s Featured BodySpace Member!

The featured BodySpace Member of the Day is inkcreep! Joe has been a BodySpace member since July 25, 2007, he’s a police officer, his body fat is 7%, and his forum signature is “Punish the body to perfect the soul.” - Mark Twight.  Very cool. Visit inkcreep’s BodySpace Profile, Photo Gallery, and Progress Photos to get to [...]

Photo Gallery Improvements ***38; Updates

A few updates to the Photo Galleries were pushed out this week.  They include: Updated Photo Gallery Picture Categories design: Photo Gallery Ratings Entry Box (eliminates anonymous photo ratings): Plus, we implemented the ability to select a pose within the Photo Gallery upload process, and optimized some database queries to improve overall site stability and performance. Coming Soon: Increase the [...]

Spotted: Tiffany Upshaw ***60;3 BodySpace!

BodySpace member & Team Optimum Nutrition athlete Tiffany Upshaw sure does love BodySpace!  Check her out: Check out more of Tiffany***8217;s photos here: http://bodyspace.bodybuilding.com/photos/view-user-photos/s/tiffanyupshaw/ To see more members, visit our Daily Featured Member category page.

Photo Comments ***038; Ratings Restored!

We just wanted to give our BodySpace members a quick update that we have deployed updates to the Photo Galleries tonight.  As part of this deployment, we restored gallery photo comments, ratings and views functionality. Currently, gallery photos will only reflect new comments and ratings, however, old PhotoPost comments and ratings will be restored very soon!  [...]

Today***8217;s Featured BodySpace Member

As BodySpace continues to grow, we***8217;d like to start highlighting more and more interesting BodySpace members on a semi-regular basis.  We recently highlighted BodySpace member Tiffany Upshaw, and since we***8217;ll be alternating between the guys and the gals, today***8217;s pick is***8230;  Slyy. Slyy has been a BodySpace member since July 23, 2007, benches 325 lbs, has [...]

Contest: Name Our Book ***038; Win Protein!

Wanna win some delicious protein powder for your New Year***8217;s fitness resolution? BodySpace is giving away a free 3.5 lb tub of the superbly delicious Optimum Platinum Hydrowhey® protein powder to the one lucky BodySpace member who comes up with the best title for our new BodySpace book! Win A Free Jug OfOptimum Platinum Hydrowhey®! Platinum Hydrowhey® is [...]

Photo Gallery Improvements ***038; Updates

A few updates to the Photo Galleries were pushed out this week.  They include: Updated Photo Gallery Picture Categories design: Photo Gallery Ratings Entry Box (eliminates anonymous photo ratings): Plus, we implemented the ability to select a pose within the Photo Gallery upload process, and optimized some database queries to improve overall site stability and performance. Coming Soon: Increase the [...]

Featured BodySpace Member of the Day

Today’s featured BodySpace Member of the Day is (drum roll, please)…  cyberta! She has been a BodySpace member since May 5, 2008, has over 800 mutual friends, has a current BodyBlog, and is using her Photo Gallery quite beautifully! Visit cyberta’s BodySpace Profile and Photo Gallery to see more of her & to say hello and congratulations!  [...]

Today’s Featured BodySpace Member

As BodySpace continues to grow, we’d like to start highlighting more and more interesting BodySpace members on a semi-regular basis.  We recently highlighted BodySpace member Tiffany Upshaw, and since we’ll be alternating between the guys and the gals, today’s pick is…  Slyy. Visit Slyy’s BodySpace Profile and Photo Gallery to see more of him & to [...]

Photo Gallery Improvements & Updates

A few updates to the Photo Galleries were pushed out this week.  They include: Updated Photo Gallery Picture Categories design: Photo Gallery Ratings Entry Box (eliminates anonymous photo ratings): Plus, we implemented the ability to select a pose within the Photo Gallery upload process, and optimized some database queries to improve overall site stability and performance. Coming Soon: Increase the [...]

Spotted: Tiffany Upshaw <3 BodySpace!

BodySpace member & Team Optimum Nutrition athlete Tiffany Upshaw sure does love BodySpace!  Check her out: Check out more of Tiffany’s photos here: http://bodyspace.bodybuilding.com/photos/view-user-photos/s/tiffanyupshaw/

New Photo Gallery Slideshow Available!

This has been a great week for the BodySpace Photo Galleries!  New and improved tweaks & improvements to the Photo Gallery design include: New Blue Topper 3rd & 4th Level Navigation Slideshow Application Share This Functionality Paging Individual Photo Metadata Comment/Rate Functionality Report/Delete Functionality Similar improvements were also applied to the Photo Gallery Main Page, Latest Pictures Page, and individual Category Pages. What’s Up Next? In [...]

Recent BodySpace Improvements

We would like to update everyone on some recent bug fixes and added functionality on BodySpace over the past couple of days. Bug Fixes: Some users were seeing a login issue last week, and this has been resolved.  (If you’re still having a problem logging in, please let us know.) Other issues also fixed within the past couple [...]

Status Update: A Couple Of Issues.

We are currently experiencing a couple of BodySpace problems that are affecting some users, including login issues for new accounts, and some photo display problems.  No data or photos have been lost, but they’re not displaying currently for some users. This is being investigated, and should be fixed soon.  We do thank everyone immensely who reported [...]

RESOLVED: A Couple Of Issues.

We were experiencing some minor BodySpace problems Sunday and this morning that were affecting some users, including login issues for new accounts, inaccurate friends counts, and some photo display problems.  No data or photos were lost, but they weren’t displaying correctly for some users. This was investigated, and has been fixed! We do thank everyone immensely [...]

Photo Comments & Ratings Restored!

We just wanted to give our BodySpace members a quick update that we have deployed updates to the Photo Galleries tonight.  As part of this deployment, we restored gallery photo comments, ratings and views functionality. Currently, gallery photos will only reflect new comments and ratings, however, old PhotoPost comments and ratings will be restored very soon!  [...]

Brief 20-Minute Site Outage Planned.

We are planning to perform site maintenance overnight (Thursday, February 25th) around 1:00 a.m. Mountain Time. This will necessitate an outage that will affect all areas of our site and is expected to last 15-20 minutes. During this time frame, the progress/status will be reported via our @bbdevteam Twitter feed. In addition, the site maintenance page will [...]

BodySpace, Blogs, Groups, Workouts, etc.

As most everyone has noticed, we performed a few changes to the My Dashboard, BodySpace, BodyBlogs, BodyGroups, and Workout Tracker portions of our site over the past few days.  As part of this recent deployment, the following were accomplished: The BodySpace user Control Panel page navigation was moved to my.bodybuilding.com (My Dashboard). My, BodySpace, BodyBlogs, BodyGroups, and [...]

BodySpace: Half Million Members Strong!

GUESS WHAT EVERYONE?! BodySpace officially hit HALF A MILLION MEMBERS within the past couple of days!  Thanks to everyone out there who has made BodySpace the amazing community it is today. If for some crazy reason you haven’t joined, it’s not too late - join us today! There are a lot more cool features being developed [...]

Brief 20-Minute Site Outage Planned

We are planning to perform site maintenance overnight (Thursday, February 25th) around 1:00 a.m. Mountain Time. This will necessitate an outage that will affect all areas of our site and is expected to last 15-20 minutes. During this time frame, the progress/status will be reported via our @bbdevteam Twitter feed. In addition, the site maintenance page will [...]

BodySpace, Blogs, Groups, Workouts, etc

As most everyone has noticed, we performed a few changes to the My Dashboard, BodySpace, BodyBlogs, BodyGroups, and Workout Tracker portions of our site over the past few days.  As part of this recent deployment, the following were accomplished: The BodySpace user Control Panel page navigation was moved to my.bodybuilding.com (My Dashboard). My, BodySpace, BodyBlogs, BodyGroups, and [...]

Win $10,000 In Real Platinum Bars!

Register today to win $10,000 of real platinum, courtesy of Optimum Nutrition!  Hurry, sweepstakes ends February 28th! http://www.optimumnutrition.com/hydrowhey/

Contest: Win A Cruise To Cozumel!

The 2010 Bodybuilding.com/Labrada Nutrition Lean Body Challenge Grand Prize Winner goes to Houston, Texas to meet & train with IFBB Hall of Famer Lee Labrada and continues on a 4-day cruise for two aboard the Carnival ship ‘Ecstacy’ to Cozumel!  The Lean Body Challenge is a great way to get in shape by challenging yourself [...]

Your 2010 BodySpace Spokesmodels!

You, the voters, have spoken!  Your two new spokesmodels for BodySpace this year are Ben Booker ("bookerbrother“) and Jaquelyn Roberts (”Jaquelyn Kay“)! New BodySpace Spokesmodels Ben Booker & Jaquelyn Roberts!Click for larger version. Backstage: High-Five!Click for larger version. All 10 of the contest finalists worked at the Bodybuilding.com booth at the 2010 LA Fitness Expo.  Here are some [...]

Final Vote: BodySpace Spokesmodels!

For the next 24 hours, everyone gets one last chance to vote for their 2010 BodySpace Spokesmodels (1 male, 1 female)*.  Go here to vote: http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/2010-ironman-bodyspace-spokesmodel-voting.htm Hurry, the clock is ticking!  (*Technically, this means one vote per external IP address. If you’re at work and don’t see the “vote” buttons, then someone at your office already voted. [...]

Revised Photo Galleries: An Update.

Today we released version #1 of the new Photo Galleries uploader tool, restoring your ability to upload, delete and edit your photos in the personal galleries.  So if you’ve missed adding new pics during this transitional period, try it now!   Click here to upload photos to your gallery: http://my.bodybuilding.com/photos/view/type/gallery More Features To Come! The following replacement features [...]

Spokesmodel Finalists In Los Angeles!

If you’ve been following Facebook and/or Twitter lately, you probably have noticed that the BodySpace Spokesmodel Finalists are now in LA today and tomorrow for their magazine photo shoots with Iron Man Magazine! The 10 BodySpace members competing to become BodySpace’s next spokesmodel are: Jaquelyn Kay Mikiko mindyk trackfiend Danny-J JWolt JamerJay bookerbrother Eightpak NYmuscle4life Here are some mobile images just uploaded from some of our contestants! Mikiko [...]

Contest: Name Our Book & Win Protein!

Wanna win some delicious protein powder for your New Year’s fitness resolution? BodySpace is giving away a free 3.5 lb tub of the superbly delicious Optimum Platinum Hydrowhey® protein powder to the one lucky BodySpace member who comes up with the best title for our new BodySpace book! Win A Free Jug OfOptimum Platinum Hydrowhey®! Platinum Hydrowhey® is [...]

Free Personalized Training Plan For You!

With the start of the new year, we’d like to welcome all of our newest BodySpace members, and wish everyone a strong start on their fitness goals for 2010! Bodybuilding.com has created a new FREE, personalized fitness plan feature called "Find A Plan” for our BodySpace members! If you’re looking for a sure-fire recipe for success to [...]

Coming Soon: Improved Photo Galleries!

Concerned that some of your photos and/or charts have temporarily disappeared?  Well, don’t be - they’ll be back in a few days in a new & improved Photo Gallery section that will definitely please! The new year is bringing fresh, new ideas and we’ve got some wonderful improvements and new features planned for the upcoming months, [...]

Happy New Year from BodySpace!

Happy New Year to everyone from BodySpace! We’re 463,193 members strong - thank you all for your support, and here’s to a fabulous 2010 fitness year!