Alexa base their traffic ranking stats when people use their toolbar. Based on website hits the toolbar counts, Alexa generate traffic ranking stats for websites on the internet.

One of the best ways for us to improve our stats is for people who browse 2-bodybuilding.com to install the Alexa toolbar, making your visits count! It is completely spam free and only takes up a tiny rectangle at the bottom corner of the browser. It also gives you the site rank of the website you are visiting (this is not real-time).

It will look like this:



It is currently only available for Firefox and Internet Explorer and can be downloaded here:

http://www.alexa.com/toolbar

Joni Neilson figure competitor, fitness model

By Marc David

After you read this short article, you will have learned some quick tips to start gaining healthy weight.

Here's 6 simple ways on how to gain weight without getting fat:

Tip 1: Eating Enough Quality Calories

Have you ever asked somebody who's trying to gain weight what they eat?

I did. And the response I received was shocking.

"I just eat."

That's what he said. I just eat.

You MUST know how many calories a day you need for your weight gain goal.

This person desperately wanted to gain weight and every time I saw him the gym he had some excuse as to why it wasn't going his way. And it was usually related to his metabolism.

Let me tell you...

If you want to gain quality weight, you have to eat high quality dense foods and ENOUGH of them. Furthermore... if you want to gain weight without getting fat, then you bulk with the same principles as if you were on a cutting diet. Choose higher-calorie foods when given a choice.

In my years of experience, when I bulked up and gained weight and fat, the biggest mistake I made was not tracking what I ate. I always tracked my diet when I was on a calorie restricted phase (that was a given) but when I wanted to gain weight I just ate everything I could.

Jessica Paxson-Putnam figure competitor, fitness model

By Doberman Dan, author of "Hyper Growth Muscle Mass Training".

I'm asked every day if there is a "magic" pill out there... something that'll help shed that excess fat tissue and keep it off for good. What if I told you that there is something that. s inexpensive, readily available, safe, without side effects, and just may be the most effective fat loss substance anywhere?
What is this mystery substance? This magic pill that you've been waiting for? Well, it isn't a pill at all. It's good old water. That's right, pure H2O.

Water is without a doubt one of the most underrated and yet dramatically effective keys to weight loss and, in particular, body fat reduction. There's absolutely no denying that drinking a lot of pure, clean water (8-12 glasses per day) will help you get and stay LEAN.

Let me make it perfectly clear here that we are talking about plain water... not soda (which is loaded with sugar; even diet soda is full of salt and chemical sweeteners), not coffee, tea, juice, blah, blah, blah. None of these count. Just WATER.

Jamie Reed figure competitor, fitness model

By Mike Geary

I bet you want to know... Does Hoodia really work to help you lose weight? After all, billions of dollars are being spent worldwide annually on this supposed "miracle" diet pill that, if you were to believe the hype spouted off by all of its manufacturers, you would think that hoodia is the miracle cure to obesity and excess weight that will save the world. Ahh, if it were only that easy to lose weight!

So... Does Hoodia actually work for lasting weight loss, or even have any effects whatsoever? Let's dig a little deeper beyond all of the marketing hype and see if hoodia actually has any merit.

The fact is that you can't search the internet or listen to the radio without being bombarded by Hoodia advertisements promising all sorts of miraculous claims. The reason I wanted to bring up the subject of Hoodia and it's validity is that I don't want any of my readers to waste their money and fall for this scam.

Now let me preface this by saying that not all companies selling hoodia are crooked. Some are legitimate and honest and actually selling real Hoodia. However, with the lack of federal regulation on supplements, it is quite easy for shady smaller companies to get away with selling pills that don't even have any hoodia at all in them. Also, we are not even saying anything regarding whether Hoodia (if it were the real stuff) actually does work or not for lasting weight loss.

Sure, the Hoodia ads sound great... no exercise necessary, just sit on your couch, pop a couple hoodia diet pills
, and you'll start melting fat off your bones like a furnace... Please, give me a frickin break! Let's get this straight... Quick fixes NEVER work, and they NEVER will work in the future. Even if a miracle weight loss pill
is developed in the future, there will always be an adverse side effect... it's simply against the laws of nature, and homeostasis of the body.

Irina Kiselev figure competitor, fitness model

By Will Brink

When people hear the term Unified Theory, some times called the Grand Unified Theory, or even "Theory of Everything," they probably think of it in terms of physics, where a Unified Theory, or single theory capable of defining the nature of the interrelationships among nuclear, electromagnetic, and gravitational forces, would reconcile seemingly incompatible aspects of various field theories to create a single comprehensive set of equations.

Such a theory could potentially unlock all the secrets of nature and the universe itself, or as theoretical physicist Michio Katu, puts it "an equation an inch long that would allow us to read the mind of God." That's how important unified theories can be. However, unified theories don't have to deal with such heady topics as physics or the nature of the universe itself, but can be applied to far more mundane topics, in this case nutrition.

Regardless of the topic, a unified theory, as sated above, seeks to explain seemingly incompatible aspects of various theories. In this article I attempt to unify seemingly incompatible or opposing views regarding nutrition, namely, what is probably the longest running debate in the nutritional sciences: calories vs. macro nutrients.

One school, I would say the 'old school' of nutrition, maintains weight loss or weight gain is all about calories, and "a calorie is a calorie," no matter the source (e.g., carbs, fats, or proteins). They base their position on various lines of evidence to come to that conclusion.