The Future of Bodybuilding.com - What Do You Want To See?!

Hi there,
I am new to bb and just downloaded the app today and tought it had workout tracker like gymgoal. Or if i could input training schedual.

I see it xplains how to do it but would be nice to be able for input.

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[QUOTE=JohnHardesty;679138271]Bodybuilding.com is currently building bigger and better tools on our website that you can use for FREE to help you reach your goals faster, motivate others, and be a part of the new era of Bodybuilding.

As you can guess, these projects are huge undertakings that we are investing a lot of time and money into. But we truly believe that these are tools that we have to build in order to fulfill our mission as a company.

WE ARE BUILDING THESE FOR THE BBCOM COMMUNITY!
WE ARE BUILDING THESE FOR YOU!

WE WANT YOUR IDEAS & FEEDBACK!

Here are some of the projects that I am personally involved in at Bodybuilding.com.

- New Store!
- New BodySpace!
- All Content on Bodybuilding.com!
- New Workout Tracker!
- And much more!

If you have an idea, suggestion, or consideration for any of these projects or the general culture that we are creating on our site (and as a company) please respond here! Looking forward to getting the community more involved with the future of where we take this great community!

Thanks![/QUOTE]

Free shipping! I'm more likely to look at amazon because of this.
I think a loyalty program would be a great incentive like brick and mortar stores. Or offer a credit card partnership that gives back when you shop at bb.com.
I also think the workout tracker is too complicated with hitting so many buttons to get what I need. I hate it and don't use it.

Due the reason below I refuse to use this site to buy supplements.

I am located in Canada.

On checkout saver shipping states delivery in 4-8 business days. WRONG.

On two different ocassions it has taken over a month to get my stuff. Complained numerous times and BB.com does no give two ****s.

Love the site but not sure how BB.com can find over a month wait acceptable?

Great site, crap store... Guess ill be ordering local now since these *******s can't figure this **** out.

Pisses me off, great customer service....

I agree with Bellasella on the workout tracker. Too much trouble. I use Jefit to track my routines and I love how quick and easy it is.

1. Would like to be able to forward inappropriate PM's to a moderator.
2. Would like the option of "Unfollowing" a post once it gets off-subject and my notifications continue to blow-up over a conversation that I'm no longer a part of.
3. Chat would be great, but not chat rooms. A room would quickly turn into a shark tank for those who use the site for the wrong reasons.
4. A tool for tracking your supps, and any duplications of contents within your stack.
5. The ability to block users who "stalk" and make some people uncomfortable. This is a safety issue. There are some people who I would block from seeing my fit status posts and my pix, because of comments they have made in the past. But I can't even protect myself on here.

I'd love to see bodybuilding.com expand to brain enhancers too! do we have a forum for that or good supplements for sale there?

[QUOTE=bellasella;1044017853]Free shipping! I'm more likely to look at amazon because of this.
I think a loyalty program would be a great incentive like brick and mortar stores. Or offer a credit card partnership that gives back when you shop at bb.com.
I also think the workout tracker is too complicated with hitting so many buttons to get what I need. I hate it and don't use it.[/QUOTE]

Sometimes I'd rather have free shipping over a free gift. Maybe put it in as an option when selecting free gift.

I would love to see a native iPhone app which communicates with BB.com-databases. The solution now, which is an optimized web-page for mobile devices, packed into an iPhone app, needs permanent internet connection, is much slower than other tracker Apps (e.g. fitness buddy, fitness trainer, or full fitness) and needs a lot of energy (power) for a "track as you go".

[QUOTE=NLWMA2014;1046525661]I agree with Bellasella on the workout tracker. Too much trouble. I use Jefit to track my routines and I love how quick and easy it is.[/QUOTE]

I also agree to that the BB.com workout tracker is not the best on iPhone. Other native apps are much faster. The BB.com tracker runs very well on desktop machines with good ASP.net or PHP support, or whatever, but not as good on the iPhone.

On the other side, the BB.com tracker is the only one I know which is so comprehensive and has this huge BB.com website to store, track, compare, share and evaluate the workouts. Other tracker apps do not have this, of course.

I'd like to see a shaved gorilla bicep curling all your products in a transparent box......joking aside I think the site is great! Even though I'm new, cheers

Nice feature would be to import a workout template from a workout article.

Now, when I want to try this nice arm workout from an article on BB.com, I have to manually collect all the suggested exercises and store them in a workout template.

I think right now what you have is great. I get a lot of ideas for work outs, and I buy all my supps from here. If I have a question your reps and the forums are very helpful.

The downsize, and it might be because I have a unique situation, I can not find anything for former athletes who had to carry more weight for their position i.e. offensive/defensive lineman... actually that is the only position in a sport I can think of. I've looked up articles for endomorphs, different workout programs etc. there just is not that much literature out there (maybe I am not looking deep enough). I recently tried setting up a goal for me to reach and I checked out the recommendations for weight and bf to achieve, there was an athlete one, but he was a skinny guy. My point is, I didn't find the kind of recommendations for bigger guys trying to get down in weight and bf. Maybe we are smaller market than the small guys trying to get big.

The stacks that y'all recommend are great, and I have read some articles that have helped me out; but those are far a few between.

Like I said, I am on this site just as much as bb sales reps, product sales reps. That is my conclusion. Keep up the great work on this site.

OPDL

[QUOTE=JohnHardesty;679138271]Bodybuilding.com is currently building bigger and better tools on our website that you can use for FREE to help you reach your goals faster, motivate others, and be a part of the new era of Bodybuilding.

As you can guess, these projects are huge undertakings that we are investing a lot of time and money into. But we truly believe that these are tools that we have to build in order to fulfill our mission as a company.

WE ARE BUILDING THESE FOR THE BBCOM COMMUNITY!
WE ARE BUILDING THESE FOR YOU!

WE WANT YOUR IDEAS & FEEDBACK!

Here are some of the projects that I am personally involved in at Bodybuilding.com.

- New Store!
- New BodySpace!
- All Content on Bodybuilding.com!
- New Workout Tracker!
- And much more!

If you have an idea, suggestion, or consideration for any of these projects or the general culture that we are creating on our site (and as a company) please respond here! Looking forward to getting the community more involved with the future of where we take this great community!

Thanks![/QUOTE]
I would like to be able to make orders in Russian.

Hi
i would like to see an extention of your facts and myths page. Is very confusing. For example, ppl on forum say 1g protein for every llb of ideal body weight... however online calculations use current body weight and 1.5-2g protein. Also, if u are a newbe and not professional sjould ur protein req be the same?

or... training before breakfast will help to burn fat faster... but what about not having energy or the fact that this might not be so great for lean muscle gain

Sometimes the advice drives me mad as it contradicts itself.

I think it would be nice if you give a reward to the person of whom you use the idea from.
dose not have to be big or of great value, could be a small sweat towel or a drink shaker, gift card, ect...just as a appreciation token.
(not sure if you do this or not, but i mod a section in a car forum and we do giftcards to starbucks)

After reading this and realizing the original post was a year and a half ago I am very disappointed. The website is still or again inconsistant and very frustrating to use. Tracker is lousy. Phone and computer sites don't sync. Any thoughts?

I completely agree with all your ideas, especially number 5. There are some total creeps on here.

you should have a personal trainers directory for each state. this would help out people like me that are training people all over the country but only about 40in my own state. i think it would help both bb.com and personal trainers. along with that if u support the other strenth sports like stronvman powerlfiting and allow us to post our contests up on the site it would also help us grow all the sports together making for larger community strength athlete body builders figure fitness to all come together . every one lifts weights thats our common interest! and u should have a small business listing for local gyms not chain gyms. most chain gyms dont support liftinv . supplements nor competing so why support them planet and wow are trying to destroy the image of lifting .why show support to such a organization

If would be awesome if there was a calorie tracker similar to what you find elsewhere like MyFitnessPal, etc, that allows you to enter your food intake, track calories based on your goal, analyze macronutrients, etc. If someone already said that or if I am missing it--sorry! To me, that is the one thing missing from Bodyspace. We are held accountable with workoout tracking, weight tracking, etc., so naturally this seems like the next piece of the puzzle. So thankful for all you offer though through bodyspace--LOVE it!

Great comments/suggestions by NLWMA2014, tmhansen, and others.

The workout tracker is in need of some overhaul - the look of the site is great, but I must be using older computers at work and at home because the format pinches, jams, and spreads on different systems.

Please simplify the tracker - it could even look a little old school or simplistic, so long as we can:

**track workouts in less time than it takes to do the workout**

BB.com needs to upgrade their recipes section. It is very inconvenient finding recipes through the current interface. I would rather scan through many different types of recipes than have to keep clicking on links with only a few listed recipes inside.

what I don't want to see is this's, and nobody want to take responsibility

I wish you can access the forums through the bodyspace app. It's a lot easier to go through it instead of having to zoom in every time. :( But otherwise, I love the app! :)

I'd like to see an addition to the workout log templates. A section where I can add what supplements I took with that workout would be a great way to track what works for me and what doesn't. I, we, could look back and see what kind of workout we had while using a certain supplement (i.e. the 1 - 10 scale that is in there, if we "killed it" or not.).

what i LOVE about the app:

The Huge amount of programs available especially those from trainer like Shortcut to Size.

That if there's a exercise i don't know i can watch the bodybuilding.com video that shows how it's done.

the superset feature works really good.

negative reps, drop sets and more.




suggestions for the Bodyspace app:
Much bigger timer so you can see it while doing cardioaccelleration. i.e. a big round circle that goes around on the amount of time specified by the workout and off course editable if you want more or less break. maybe a plus 15 s button or minus. or some sort of gesture.

make it possible to view the reps and previously used weight while the timer is running.

also come with a weight suggestion based on the amount of reps the program suggests and earlier stats.
after first set base the next weight on the first set depending on if you overachieved or underachieved the recommended reps.

based on earlier sets weight and reps: calculated weight on dropset and negative reps.

consider moving the previous lifts tab to offline or make it preload so that it doesn't take so long to go and get them while you need them.

its not possible to use decimals on entering weights???? its just disappearing when entered.

if you don't have the equipment off a exercise tap a "alternative exercises" button (a not currently existing button) and choose between the exersices that is the most similar based og primary and secondary muscle groups and maybe the amount of reps you're about to peform specified in the program.

in the Shortcut to shred i really come short when the cardioaccerlerated exercise i want to do between the other exercise (superset feature used) doesn't match the one i want to do.
so a feature a bit like the alternative exercises but this time you can choose from exercises in the same category so that when i tap the "alternative exercises" button it only shows the cardioaccelerated exercises that the author (Jim Stoppani in the shortcut to shred) predefined.

Why do i have to tap the weight box then the reps box. isn't obvious that i want to enter weight and then reps. There's just too many extra taps which makes tracking inefficient! :) reduce the amount of extra taps.

also if you want to get people to use the app you need much more efficiency. i don't know if it's because your servers are horrible or the streamlining of the app sucks but if it's because of the horrible servers you may consider upgrading them or making the app more offline based. so that it's uploading the workout in the end.

More gestures:
is there any way that you could incorporate more gestures to boost the app efficiency?
i would not recommend scrollers for reps and weight but are there any other corners of the app it could be usable for the sweaty shaking user.
maybe the timer?

More settings!
i want to costumize the preworkout screen. like if i do not want it to ask for my bodyweight in the beginning of each workout or where i've worked out. if i find these unnecessary i would like the option to toggle them OFF.
also the last option on the preworkout screen (the one asking if i want breaks between sets) toggling it on and off doesn't affect anything. if you could make it work just do not put it there put it in a settings page.

Fix the timer in the app so that it doesn't cancel out if you, say, look at the exercise database while you're resting. In fact, it cancels out if you do anything other than stare at it, more or less. Also, the volume of the alert is suddenly about .000001%, so I actually DO have to stare at it.

In the store I'd like to be able to see all the bogo/temporary price cut/etc. in a group. Right now it's just searching through and clearance. There's a page that shows like 10 or so but there's usually more than that.

I'd love to see a windows phone app! Going to the gym is awesome, fumbling through the full site on my phone... Not so much.

Sorry if its not the right place but, in my case, more shipping options would be great, maybe local postal services like USPS, since the shipping to my country its way to expensive i have to order only light and small stuff, if i want for example whey protein 4 lbs or more the shipping can be more expensive than the actual protein and thats really bad cause many good products of you are not available in my country, Bolivia. i hope that maybe in the future can be more options.

Best Regards.