Ya, the stuff there seems to be of lower caliber to me. Its just like if you were to take muscle & fitness, or flex magazine and get your info from there. Thats why when I found T-Nation, i pretty much never went back there
I read a few posts that said bb.com had Layne Norton and others like him who are very helpful to nattys and other physique enthusiasts. I do not visit the site much so I would not know.
I used to go on it all the time. i check back to it sometimes too and i just noticed they had an article on the front page by a 15 year old tlaking about how to grow ur shoulders. His physique was nothing impressive and im pretty sure at 15 theres nohing tht qualifies him to write such an article.
And I thought the product placement/advertising was bad on T-Nation.
It’s fair enough I suppose,its mostly Biotest anyway.
But I just went on there to see if anything had changed,and its like no matter what you click on,a good 40% of the page is ads.It’s ridiculous.
And the layout is so scrappy.They can’t stay on topic for one page.
You click on on article and theres 10 ads,plus 4 or 5 big windows with links to other articles and polls and shit.
And what the fuck is with the page? they use like the middle third of the screen to cram all the writing in.so to read a page,you gotta scrooooooooolllllllll all the way down,it just doesn’t make sense,the borders on either side are like 6 inches deep!!
jo3 your avatar is awesome I can’t stop laughing. Bodybuilding.com try’s to appeal to everyone I think while T-Nation is alpha in your face. If you really want to succeed you go with T-Nation because you don’t have time for all the fluff of bodybuilding.com
There are gems here and there at bb.com but you have to go through tons of stupid shit before you find one. I still go there for the entertainment though.
BB.com is simply much larger than T-Nation. They do showcase a lot of shows, and get a lot of interviews with great bodybuilders and people in the business (not as good as MD tho).
But the best thing about BodyBuilding.com by far is their BodySpace feature… that’s a pretty valuable resource as far as finding someone with similar height/structure as you that has achieved the things you want, and finding out how they did it… as well as getting to look at and learn from a bunch of huge guys, and the occasional fitness bunny for those of you that are creepy and like to stalk them.
Both T-Nation and BB.com use “bad science” and have “gaping holes in their reasoning” and so forth. LOL
Although I do think T-Nation is a bit more quality, it’s probably due to the fact that they are just that much smaller and more manageable, but the biggest problem I have with the writing here on T-Nation is the ridiculous hyperbole, and the really pretentious tone of a lot of the articles.
I’ve never been to BB.com, but am betting they have one thing (and probably only one thing) better than T-Nation: message boards that actually update your posts in real time.
[quote]forlife wrote:
I’ve never been to BB.com, but am betting they have one thing (and probably only one thing) better than T-Nation: message boards that actually update your posts in real time.[/quote]
