Gripes

This is a page where I vent frustrations, and express my opinions. As the title implies, these will be mostly, if not exclusively, negative opinions. At least I've never heard of a positive gripe. If something bothers you, let me know and maybe I'll add it!

Female Bodybuilding or Erotica?

I searched long and hard for an informative web page for female bodybuilders, and 95% of what I found was female erotica. What kills me is that they are listed as bodybuilding sites. I eventually did find one: Check it out!

But it doesn't end there, just pick up any fitness magazine and flip through it. Chances are it is written towards the male bodybuilder, and only reference to females in it are scantly clad women in seductive poses, who often times don't have an athletic body.

When was the last time you saw a woman working out in the gym wearing a G-string? Sure, maybe they want to better show the muscle (glutes) being worked, but she was doing pulldowns!

The word fitness is often associated with health. Thankfully bodybuilding is moving towards the natural spectrum, especially with it becoming an Olympic event. But still, pick up most BB magazines, and you see drug (steroid) enhanced body's, and breast implants abound. What's healthy or natural about that? Not much.

It's a crying shame that the people portrayed in magazines, and that some of us idolize, use methods the thought of which makes most of us quiver. And them denying the use of such methods only gives us false expectations.

Magazines and their web pages commited to selling their supplements

It's bad enough you pick up a magazine, and it's stuffed with supplement adds. Even worse is when they base entire article, which look objective and informative, on some new supplement that is being and developed, and luckily enough, they happen to sell it.

Now this focus on selling their supplements has been transfered to the web as well, as their sites are cluttered with adds, and their Q&A sections just happen to be questions which let them sing the praises of their supplements.

I've submitted valid questions to several such sites and magazines, but it seems that unless they can include their supplements/products in the answer, they see no value in responding to it. Maybe I'm just bitter that nobody ever answers my questions, cause I have plenty as well. Life goes on...

Web pages with links to web pages with links to web pages with links...

I get a good deal of my information from other web pages. But sifting through dozens, even hundreds of sites that happen to come up high on the results of searches, only to find minimal, if any info, and massive lists to other similar pages with minimal info, makes me ill.

Hopefully if you found this page, you also found an end to your search. Unfortunately, getting listed along with 1000 other web pages makes it quite difficult to stand out. So how do you get notice? See next gripe...

Search engines tick me off

Sometimes I think you have to pay someone off to get listed on some search engines. I've signed myself up to many search engines, put my request must get lost somewhere, cause I can't ever seem to find my own site on them. So much for getting exposure through search engines.

While I'm at it, it also ticks me off if I'm looking for some info, and the first 20 or more results are the same page, which essentially wants to sell you something. Which leads me to my next gripe...

Why don't they divide informative sites from commercial sites?

All it would take is a simple flag to differentiate sites that want to sell you something, and sites that contain valuable information! So why don't they do that? I want info on something, I have to visit 20 sites trying to sell me some related product, when all I want is unbiased information regarding that product. Of course the place selling it is gonna tell me how great it is!