Well, guess what – you helped us figure it out!

You nominated twenty blogs. Our judges looked them over and scored them. And now, the Top 10 Fitness Blogs of 2015 have been chosen! Here they are, in ranked order:

The Top 10 Fitness Blogs of 2015

1. Dai Manuel
2. Ross Training
3. Sock Doc
4. Nerd Fitness
5. Dr. John Rusin
6. Barbell Shrugged Daily
7. Catalyst Athletics
8. Brandon Richey Fitness
9. Timothy Bell Fitness
10. End of Three Fitness

Congratulations to the winners!

Thanks also to everyone who participated, whether you nominated a site or enrolled your readers in voting for you. Thanks for being an active part of the online fitness community!

Special Thanks to Our Judges

Dan John: Dan John has spent his life with one foot in the world of lifting and throwing, and the other foot in academia. An All-American discus thrower, Dan has also competed at the highest levels of Olympic lifting, Highland Games, and the Weight Pentathlon, an event in which he holds the American record. Dan spends his work life blending weekly workshops and lectures with full-time writing, and is also an online religious studies instructor for Columbia College of Missouri. As a Fulbright Scholar, he toured the Middle East exploring the foundations of religious education systems. His books on weightlifting include Intervention, Never Let Go, Mass Made Simple, and Easy Strength (written with Pavel Tsatsouline), as well as To Grad, From Dad. Recently, he and Josh Hillis co-authored Fat Loss Happens on Monday.

Katy is the founder and director of the Restorative Exercise Institute, a large organization and online training program that teaches the biomechanical model of preventative medicine to health professionals and laypeople worldwide. The author of Every Woman’s Guide to Foot Pain Relief: The New Science of Healthy Feet (2011), Alignment Matters: The First Five Years of Katy Says (2013), and Move Your DNA (2014), Katy’s writing explore the relationship between cultural habits, movement, and disease. She is the creator and talent of the Aligned and Well DVD series and blogs regularly at Katy Says.

Gwen Sisto: Gwendolyn Sisto is co-founder of Risto Sports, the leader in weightlifting products and services, which has trained medalists and champions from the Olympics, World Championships, and the CrossFit Games. Gwen is a top 69kg female weightlifter in the USA, and she has represented Team USA internationally. Gwen holds an MS in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT and a BS in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech and works in the aerospace composites industry. She enjoys equine sports, dogs, and training with her family: international weightlifting coach, Ivan Rojas and, their daughter, Gwendolyn Rojas. Follow Gwen on Twitter and Instagram.

Darryl Edwards: Darryl Edwards, MSc., is the founder of HEALTH Unplugged and owner of Fitness Explorer Training. He is an international speaker, coach, nutritionist, and author of Paleo Fitness. He has been published in titles such as Men’s Health, Women’s Health, and Elle and has been featured on the BBC. After almost two decades as a technologist in investment banking, Darryl transformed his health after adopting an ancestral model to well being. Darryl now advises people on maintaining a healthy lifestyle – amid the epidemic of obesity and other chronic lifestyle diseases. As a recognition of the fact that physical inactivity is more detrimental to long-term health than other risk factors, he created Primal Play to help people rekindle their love affair with exercise.

Donnie Thompson: Donnie Thompson played football in the Arena Football League for six years. In 1992, he was in a feature film called The Program where he played #52, the center on the football team. Following six years of commercial health club business, Donnie started competitive powerlifting and did not turned back. He is the first human ever to total 3000lbs. From 2006 to 2012, Donnie worked in Sports Physical Therapy as strength and mobility director for nineteen clinics state wide. Industry gurus like Pavel, Kelly Starrett, Dick Hartzell and Louie Simmons have worked with Donnie personally in the past two decades. This led to his development of Performance Therapy. Today Donnie lectures nationwide and works with top athletes.

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Since there is a tie, we thought it only fair to award both designers the full $100 prize and a T-shirt (of their own design!), as well as put their designs and information up on the site.

We are so excited to have such talented and engaged readers. Not only were we able to source the designs from the community, but then the community told us which designs were the favorites. Thank you all so much for participating.

Look for the first printing of Breaking Muscle T-shirts featuring these designs to be available soon.

This First Set Is From Tracy Dyer:

Front:

Back:

– OR –

Tracy Dyer, despite the name, is a dude. He’s the husband of one, father of three, and a web developer who lives in the middle of nowhere (AKA central Illinois).

Tracy lost over 100lbs almost ten years ago and has made it his life work to keep it off. At age forty, he’s recently decided to give CrossFit a shot. So yeah, he’s crazy! He can be contacted at boynamedtracy@gmail.com.

The Second Design Is From Adrian Pujayana:

Adrian Pujayana is a private practice chiropractor in South Pasadena of fourteen years, an NATA Certified Athletic Trainer, and an NSCA-CSCS. Aside from being an avid reader of Breaking Muscle for current discussions in the functional training world, he spends free time doing photography and graphic design and composing music.

Adrian loves the intensity of circuit-based functional/strength training, and this, he says, is what provides the foundation for his patients’ progress while cared for at his chiropractic and strength clinic.

In January of 2014, Adrian contracted a severe case of the H1N1 (swine flu), the strain that took so many lives of healthy young men and women. It almost took his, too. Through a recovery plan of his own design, he has regained nearly all of the thirty pounds he lost during that ordeal. He now uses the same recovery plan to help others to recover from similarly profound illnesses.

Adrian can be contacted through his website, Family Chiropractic Center of South Pasadena.

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After much discussion about who to have create the perfect design, we decided to open up the process to the Breaking Muscle community. Not only will we source the design from the community, but the community will choose the winner, too. After all, who knows what you like better than you do?

We aren’t trying to get something for nothing, though. The winning designer will receive $100, a T-shirt, and be announced as the winner on the site.

Here is the basic plan:

• Submissions will be accepted until Friday, 9/19/2014 at 5:00pm Pacific time
• We will present three to five of our favorites to you to vote on
• We reserve the right to use any/all/none of the designs
• All submissions become property of Breaking Muscle

How and what to submit:

• Our T-shirts have a 16″x18″ printable area front and back
• You DO NOT need to fill this area, in fact, it is recommended you don’t!
• The same design is to be used on both men’s and women’s shirts
• Vector files are preferred, but any graphics file except MS Publisher will work
• If the file is a .jpg, it should be actual size and at least 300dpi
• Questions and submission go to: winslow@breakingmuscle.com
• If your files are too large to email, email me and we can use another method

This Will Be Fun!

We are very excited to see what everyone can come up with. We expect the final choice to be very difficult, which is why we’ll be needing all of you to help us decide. Whether you submit a design or not, you are welcomed and encouraged to vote.

Once we have the shirts in hand, you may see some Twitter and Facebook contests as well as other opportunities to get one free. Stay tuned!

– The Breaking Muscle Team

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The Top 10 Fitness Blogs of 2014

1. Catalyst Athletics
2. Science for Fitness
3. Chronicles of Strength
4. Katy Says
5. All Out Effort
6. Talk to Me Johnnie
7. Tanner Martty
8. OPT (Optimum Performance Training)
9. Dai Manuel
10. Fascia Freedom Fighters

Congratulations to the winners!

Thanks also to everyone who participated, whether you nominated a site or enrolled your readers in voting for you. Thanks for being an active part of the online fitness community!

And Special Thanks to Our Judges

Robb Wolf – Robb is a former research biochemist and the best-selling author of The Paleo Solution – The Original Human Diet. A student of Loren Cordain, author of The Paleo Diet, Robb has transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around the world via his top ranked iTunes podcast, book, and seminars. Robb has functioned as a review editor for the Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism, is co-founder of the nutrition and athletic training journal The Performance Menu, and co-owner of NorCal Strength and Conditioning. Robb is a former California State Powerlifting Champion and a 6-0 amateur kickboxer. He coaches athletes at the highest levels of competition and consults with Olympians and world champions in MMA, motocross, rowing, and triathlon. Wolf has provided seminars in nutrition and strength and conditioning to various entities including NASA, Naval Special Warfare, the Canadian Light Infantry, and the United States Marine Corps.

John Du Cane – John founded Dragon Door Publications in 1991 as a media company for the creation and promotion of advanced fitness resources. Du Cane has had a profound impact on the modern fitness world, in particular as the originator of the modern kettlebell movement in 2001, in conjunction with Dragon Door’s author Pavel. John’s stature as a leading visionary and innovator in global fitness has grown with the introduction of the Convict Conditioning brand and the reinvigoration of the bodyweight exercise movement. Dragon Door’s pioneering RKC kettlebell instructor training system remains the gold standard worldwide and is the primary model on which all other kettlebell certifications have been based. Dragon Door’s PCC is rapidly establishing itself as the world’s premier bodyweight exercise certification system and can be expected to have the same health impact globally as the RKC.

Andy Petranek – Andy is the founder of CrossFit Los Angeles. Established in 2004, it is one of the oldest and most successful CrossFit training centers and was the first to be featured in national media. A former professional Red Bull adventure racer, extreme athlete, and master whitewater kayaker and mountaineer, Andy completed three Eco-Challenges and one Raid Gauloises, as well as the La Ruta de los Conquistadores mountain bike race across Costa Rica. A U.S. Marines Gulf War veteran, Andy is a CrossFit Level 3 certified trainer and was the oldest participant, at 43, to qualify for the 2009 CrossFit Games. In addition to holding a variety of CrossFit certifications, Andy is also a VIVOBAREFOOT Running Coach and a CHEK Level 2 Corrective High-Performance Exercise Kinesiologist and Nutrition and Lifestyle Coach. Andy recently wrote the book Fire Your Gym and is the co-founder of The Whole Life challenge.

Christine Mooney – Christine helps fitness professionals get the word out, reach more people, and profit with integrity through minimalist marketing (focusing on the “vital few” efforts for the greatest return). She helps clients build an online platform, establish credibility, authority, and celebrity, and get published. She helps them build a magnetic brand, cultivate a movement, and get people talking. She has worked with clients ranging from the single largest multimedia retailer in the United States to top health and wellness fitness bloggers. And she can help you. To chat about your own marketing goals, email her at Christine.Suzan.Mooney@gmail.com.

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The twenty finalists have been selected.

Now it’s in the hands of the judges!

Over the month of February we received over 1,300 nominations for our third annual Top 10 Fitness Blog contest. We asked for your help in determining the best fitness blogs on the web – and we got it!

Now, it’s time for the judges to decide who makes the final cut. How do they decide the ten best fitness sites? Judges will be looking at the overall quality of a website, frequency of posts, user involvement, and the number of nominations a site was given.

WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON MARCH 10TH!

Check out the top twenty for yourself (in alphabetical order):

• All Out Effort
• Catalyst Athletics
• Chronicles of Strength
• Constant Forward Progress
• Dai Manuel
• Eva T. Strength and Conditioning
• Fascia Freedom Fighters
• Fat CrossFitter
• Inside the Affiliate
• Jeremy Scott Fitness
• Katy Says
• Lose Stubborn Fat
• Melody Schoenfeld – Not Yer Mama’s Fitness Blog
• Muscular Strength System
• OPT (Optimum Performance Training)
• Science for Fitness
• Star Factory Fitness
• Talk to Me Johnnie
• Tanner Martty
• Ultra Runner Girl

Congratulations to the top twenty!

Our Amazing Panel of Judges:

Robb Wolf – Robb is a former research biochemist and the best-selling author of The Paleo Solution – The Original Human Diet. A student of Loren Cordain, author of The Paleo Diet, Robb has transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around the world via his top ranked iTunes podcast, book, and seminars. Robb has functioned as a review editor for the Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism, is co-founder of the nutrition and athletic training journal The Performance Menu, and co-owner of NorCal Strength and Conditioning. Robb is a former California State Powerlifting Champion and a 6-0 amateur kickboxer. He coaches athletes at the highest levels of competition and consults with Olympians and world champions in MMA, motocross, rowing, and triathlon. Wolf has provided seminars in nutrition and strength and conditioning to various entities including NASA, Naval Special Warfare, the Canadian Light Infantry, and the United States Marine Corps.

John Du Cane – John founded Dragon Door Publications in 1991 as a media company for the creation and promotion of advanced fitness resources. Du Cane has had a profound impact on the modern fitness world, in particular as the originator of the modern kettlebell movement in 2001, in conjunction with Dragon Door’s author Pavel. John’s stature as a leading visionary and innovator in global fitness has grown with the introduction of the Convict Conditioning brand and the reinvigoration of the bodyweight exercise movement. Dragon Door’s pioneering RKC kettlebell instructor training system remains the gold standard worldwide and is the primary model on which all other kettlebell certifications have been based. Dragon Door’s PCC is rapidly establishing itself as the world’s premier bodyweight exercise certification system and can be expected to have the same health impact globally as the RKC.

Andy Petranek – Andy is the founder of CrossFit Los Angeles. Established in 2004, it is one of the oldest and most successful CrossFit training centers and was the first to be featured in national media. A former professional Red Bull adventure racer, extreme athlete, and master whitewater kayaker and mountaineer, Andy completed three Eco-Challenges and one Raid Gauloises, as well as the La Ruta de los Conquistadores mountain bike race across Costa Rica. A U.S. Marines Gulf War veteran, Andy is a CrossFit Level 3 certified trainer and was the oldest participant, at 43, to qualify for the 2009 CrossFit Games. In addition to holding a variety of CrossFit certifications, Andy is also a VIVOBAREFOOT Running Coach and a CHEK Level 2 Corrective High-Performance Exercise Kinesiologist and Nutrition and Lifestyle Coach. Andy recently wrote the book Fire Your Gym and is the co-founder of The Whole Life challenge.

Christine Mooney – Christine helps fitness professionals get the word out, reach more people, and profit with integrity through minimalist marketing (focusing on the “vital few” efforts for the greatest return). She helps clients build an online platform, establish credibility, authority, and celebrity, and get published. She helps them build a magnetic brand, cultivate a movement, and get people talking. She has worked with clients ranging from the single largest multimedia retailer in the United States to top health and wellness fitness bloggers. And she can help you. To chat about your own marketing goals, email her at Christine.Suzan.Mooney@gmail.com.

WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON MARCH 10TH!

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Every year Breaking Muscle holds a contest to determine the Top 10 Fitness Blogs on the Internet. Given that there are a lot of fitness sites out there, we need your help to sort through them all and select the twenty finalists that will go before our esteemed panel of judges. The Top 10 winners will be awarded a special badge for their website to proudly display the honor you helped them achieve.

How to Nominate:

1. Nominate your favorite blog (just one!) by commenting below and including why you like the blog. Only one nomination per person and please include a link to the blog. If you nominate more than one site, only your first nomination will count. Nominations will be accepted up until 12:00AM Pacific on Thursday, Feb 28th.
2. On March 3rd we will announce the top twenty finalists. That is, the twenty fitness blogs that received the most nominations.
3. These top twenty finalists will be reviewed by our panel of awesome (and very fit) judges who will then, along with our Managing Editor, select the final Top 10 Fitness Blogs of 2014.

NOMINATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED UNTIL 12:00AM PACIFIC ON FEB 28TH

20 FINALISTS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON MARCH 3RD

WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON MARCH 10TH

POST YOUR NOMINATION TO THE COMMENTS BELOW!

Include a link to the site and why you think it’s the best.

Who Can Enter:

Any fitness blog run by an individual. Corporations and big companies are not allowed to enter. Think of your favorite blogs run by a coach, athlete, or nutrition geek. What sites do you visit for reliable and factual info from an expert? Do you visit them regularly and love the info and advice you get? That’s the site you should nominate!

Our Amazing Panel of Judges:

Robb Wolf – Robb is a former research biochemist and the best-selling author of The Paleo Solution – The Original Human Diet. A student of Loren Cordain, author of The Paleo Diet, Robb has transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around the world via his top ranked iTunes podcast, book, and seminars. Robb has functioned as a review editor for the Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism, is co-founder of the nutrition and athletic training journal The Performance Menu, and co-owner of NorCal Strength and Conditioning. Robb is a former California State Powerlifting Champion and a 6-0 amateur kickboxer. He coaches athletes at the highest levels of competition and consults with Olympians and world champions in MMA, motocross, rowing, and triathlon. Wolf has provided seminars in nutrition and strength and conditioning to various entities including NASA, Naval Special Warfare, the Canadian Light Infantry, and the United States Marine Corps.

John Du Cane – John founded Dragon Door Publications in 1991 as a media company for the creation and promotion of advanced fitness resources. Du Cane has had a profound impact on the modern fitness world, in particular as the originator of the modern kettlebell movement in 2001, in conjunction with Dragon Door’s author Pavel. John’s stature as a leading visionary and innovator in global fitness has grown with the introduction of the Convict Conditioning brand and the reinvigoration of the bodyweight exercise movement. Dragon Door’s pioneering RKC kettlebell instructor training system remains the gold standard worldwide and is the primary model on which all other kettlebell certifications have been based. Dragon Door’s PCC is rapidly establishing itself as the world’s premier bodyweight exercise certification system and can be expected to have the same health impact globally as the RKC.

Andy Petranek – Andy is the founder of CrossFit Los Angeles. Established in 2004, it is one of the oldest and most successful CrossFit training centers and was the first to be featured in national media. A former professional Red Bull adventure racer, extreme athlete, and master whitewater kayaker and mountaineer, Andy completed three Eco-Challenges and one Raid Gauloises, as well as the La Ruta de los Conquistadores mountain bike race across Costa Rica. A U.S. Marines Gulf War veteran, Andy is a CrossFit Level 3 certified trainer and was the oldest participant, at 43, to qualify for the 2009 CrossFit Games. In addition to holding a variety of CrossFit certifications, Andy is also a VIVOBAREFOOT Running Coach and a CHEK Level 2 Corrective High-Performance Exercise Kinesiologist and Nutrition and Lifestyle Coach. Andy recently wrote the book Fire Your Gym and is the co-founder of The Whole Life challenge.

Christine Mooney – Christine helps fitness professionals get the word out, reach more people, and profit with integrity through minimalist marketing (focusing on the “vital few” efforts for the greatest return). She helps clients build an online platform, establish credibility, authority, and celebrity, and get published. She helps them build a magnetic brand, cultivate a movement, and get people talking. She has worked with clients ranging from the single largest multimedia retailer in the United States to top health and wellness fitness bloggers. And she can help you. To chat about your own marketing goals, email her at Christine.Suzan.Mooney@gmail.com.

POST YOUR NOMINATION TO THE COMMENTS BELOW!

Include a link to the site and why you think it’s the best.

NOMINATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED UNTIL 12:00AM PACIFIC ON FEB 28TH

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Last week we posted reviews for the new Gymboss Interval Timers and Yoga Hands. If you missed the reviews for these products, be sure to check them out! Here are the ten winners of the Gymboss giveaway and the winner of the Yoga Hands giveaway:

The winner of the Yoga Hands giveaway is:

Slade Tommie

The 10 Gymboss Interval Timer winners are:

• Christy Paterson
• Dave Pike
• Michael Graham
• Steffen Veit
• John Stollen
• Gary Odle
• Amado Fernandez
• Rich Ford
• Amy B. Ramos-Selfe
• Kathleen Garland

Thanks to everyone who entered the giveaway.

If you missed the reviews, read them here:

• Product Review: Gymboss Interval Timer and Gymboss miniMAX
• Product Review: Yoga Hands

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The 20 finalists have been selected.

Now it’s in the hands of the judges!

Over the month of February we received almost 500 nominations for our second annual Top 10 Fitness Blog contest. We asked for your help in determining the best fitness blogs on the web – and we got it! Now, it’s time for the judges to decide who makes the final cut. How do they decide the ten best fitness sites? Judges will be looking at the overall quality of a website, frequency of posts and user involvement, and the number of nominations a site was given.

THE WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON MARCH 6TH!

Check out the top 20 for yourself (in alphabetical order):

• All Out Effort – allouteffort.com
• Ancestral Momentum – ancestralmomentum.com
• Crude Fitness – crudefitness.com
• End of Three Fitness – endofthreefitness.com
• Jeremy Scott Fitness – jeremyscottfitness.com
• Lauren Brooks’s Blog – kbellqueen.blogspot.com
• Life Support – mitchcalvert.com
• Live Life Active – livelifeactive.com
• Not Yer Mama’s Fitness Blog – melodyschoenfeld.blogspot.com
• Personal Trainer Development Center – theptdc.com
• Ross Training – rosstraining.com/blog
• Rubies & Radishes – rubiesandradishes.com
• Sandbag Fitness – sandbagfitness.blogspot.com
• SSCT – ssctofficial.com
• Star Factory Fitness – starfactoryfitness.com
• The Truth About Exercise – thetruthaboutexercise.wordpress.com
• Training for Warriors – trainingforwarriors.com
• Ultra Runner Girl – ultrarunnergirl.com
• Wild Geese Fitness Training – wg-fit.com
• Worlds Fittest – worldsfittest.net

Our Amazing Panel of Judges:

Charles Staley – Charles is known as a visionary, an iconoclast and a rule-breaker. Prominent both the United States and across the globe, Charles is recognized as a authoritative coach and innovator in the field of human performance. His knowledge, skills and reputation have lead to appearances on NBC’s The TODAY Show and The CBS Early Show, along with numerous radio appearances. He has penned more than a thousand articles for major publications and online websites in the industry. Find Charles online at Target Focus Fitness.

Nicki Violetti – Nicki Violetti is a co-founder of Front Desk Inc. She is also the co-owner of NorCal Strength & Conditioning in Chico, CA, which Men’s Health named one of the Top 30 gyms in America. She is noted for her development of the “On Ramp” concept for introducing new clients to mixed modal CrossFit-style training and published a programming template and implementation guide in a two part series in The Performance Menu in May and June 2009. The On Ramp is now adapted and utilized in thousands of micro gyms worldwide. Violetti is a sought-after fitness business consultant and blogs at frontdeskhq.com.

Nick Horton – Nick Horton is not your average Olympic Weightlifting coach. He’s been practicing Zen meditation for over a decade and applies the lessons he’s learned to both his coaching and to his writing. Nick is certified through both USA Weightlifting and CrossFit as an Olympic Weightlifting Coach. He is the owner and head coach of PDX Weightlifting, the largest Olympic weightlifting club in the state of Oregon. He can also be found online via his blog, The Iron Samurai, which can be summed up by its subtitle: Zen and the Art of Weightlifting.

Jennifer Fader – Jennifer is a self-described information junkie. Among her most exciting accomplishments is shaping the nascent stages of social media, helping one of her first employers, a Fortune 500 company, step its way beyond AOL and dial-up modems. She also oversaw and conceptualized the world’s first event to be covered on Twitter (LiveEarth) and co-founded the first social media marketing agency in the U.S., SocialRadius, and ran her own agency, Synchronicity Mediam for seven years. In late 2007, she was recruited to Rogers & Cowan, the world’s biggest entertainment marketing and PR agency to build their first digital department. There, Jennifer represented clients in the entertainment, digital media, and consumer technology sectors as well as talent and personalities.

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We need your help in determining the Top 10 Fitness Blogs on the Internet. The Internet is a big place and there’s a lot of great stuff out there. It can also be a bit overwhelming. We are going to select the top 10 best resources for fitness information from the blogs you regularly read – and then share that information with you. The Top 10 winners will be awarded a badge for their website to proudly display the honor you helped them achieve.

How to Nominate:

1. Nominate your favorite blog (just one!) by commenting below and including why you like the blog. Only one nomination per person. Include a link to the blog. The last day for nominations is February 28, 2013.
2. On March 1st we will announce the top 20 finalists. That is, the 20 fitness blogs receiving the most nominations.
3. These top 20 finalists will be reviewed by our esteemed panel of awesome (and very fit) judges who will then, along with our Managing Editor, select the final Top 10 Fitness Blogs of 2013.

THE WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON MARCH 6TH!

POST YOUR NOMINATION TO THE COMMENTS BELOW!

Include a link to the site and why you think it’s the best.

Who Can Enter:

Any fitness blog run by an individual. Corporations and big companies are not allowed to enter. Think of your favorite blogs run by a coach, athlete, or nutrition geek. What sites do you visit for info from an expert delivered on a personal level? And you visit them regularly and love the info you get? That’s who you should nominate!

Our Amazing Panel of Judges:

Charles Staley – Charles is known as a visionary, an iconoclast and a rule-breaker. Prominent both the United States and across the globe, Charles is recognized as a authoritative coach and innovator in the field of human performance. His knowledge, skills and reputation have lead to appearances on NBC’s The TODAY Show and The CBS Early Show, along with numerous radio appearances. He has penned more than a thousand articles for major publications and online websites in the industry. Find Charles online at Target Focus Fitness.

Nicki Violetti – Nicki Violetti is a co-founder of Front Desk Inc. She is also the co-owner of NorCal Strength & Conditioning in Chico, CA, which Men’s Health named one of the Top 30 gyms in America. She is noted for her development of the “On Ramp” concept for introducing new clients to mixed modal CrossFit-style training and published a programming template and implementation guide in a two part series in The Performance Menu in May and June 2009. The On Ramp is now adapted and utilized in thousands of micro gyms worldwide. Violetti is a sought-after fitness business consultant and blogs at frontdeskhq.com.

Nick Horton – Nick Horton is not your average Olympic Weightlifting coach. He’s been practicing Zen meditation for over a decade and applies the lessons he’s learned to both his coaching and to his writing. Nick is certified through both USA Weightlifting and CrossFit as an Olympic Weightlifting Coach. He is the owner and head coach of PDX Weightlifting, the largest Olympic weightlifting club in the state of Oregon. He can also be found online via his blog, The Iron Samurai, which can be summed up by its subtitle: Zen and the Art of Weightlifting.

Jennifer Fader – Jennifer is a self-described information junkie. Among her most exciting accomplishments is shaping the nascent stages of social media, helping one of her first employers, a Fortune 500 company, step its way beyond AOL and dial-up modems. She also oversaw and conceptualized the world’s first event to be covered on Twitter (LiveEarth) and co-founded the first social media marketing agency in the U.S., SocialRadius, and ran her own agency, Synchronicity Mediam for seven years. In late 2007, she was recruited to Rogers & Cowan, the world’s biggest entertainment marketing and PR agency to build their first digital department. There, Jennifer represented clients in the entertainment, digital media, and consumer technology sectors as well as talent and personalities.

POST YOUR NOMINATION TO THE COMMENTS BELOW!

Include a link to the site and why you think it’s the best.

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If you have chronic problems with foot pain, or if you’re just interested in the effects of footwear on your feet and alignment, this book is for you. Katy kindly provided a free copy to give to one lucky reader, and today we’re happy to announce the results of the giveaway:

And the winner is… Jill Clappison Dagless!

Congratulations, Jill! We know you’ll enjoy the book, and will be in touch so we can send it your way!

If you missed the review, you can read it here. You can also read Katy’s piece to learn about her approach to human movement, as well as this interview about the pelvic floor. Learn more about Katy’s work by visiting her blog, Katy Says.

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First, here’s a recap of October’s contest details: readers submitted their original “Crazy Workout Face” photos on our Pinterest board. We chose three winners to receive the following prizes from Barleans:

Announcing the winners of our October photo contest! Thank you to everyone who supported the contest by sharing the word and submitting your photos. We’ve chosen the winners and have details for next month’s contest as well.

First, here’s a recap of October’s contest details: readers submitted their original “Crazy Workout Face” photos on our Pinterest board. We chose three winners to receive the following prizes from Barleans:

• 1st PLACE – Barlean’s Omega Swirl 16 ounce & Swirl Recipe Booklet (your choice of either Total Omega Orange Cream or the New Key Lime Fish Oil Swirl)
• 2nd PLACE – Barlean’s Flax Oil 16 ounce & Flax Oil Recipe Booklet
• 3rd PLACE – Barlean’s 45ct Olive Leaf Complex capsules & Booklet by Dr. Jonny Bowden

This month’s winners were taken by Ryan Muller, Erin Morse, and Shannan Maynard:

1st PLACE: “Last Rep of Max Bodyweight Deadlift Competition,” by Ryan Muller

2nd PLACE: “Max Lifting Day” by Erin Morse

3rd PLACE: “Mid 1000 meter row at NLI Warrior Soul II” by Shannan Maynard

With the holidays coming up, we thought a recipe contest was in order for the month of November. Submit your best holiday paleo recipes to be featured on the main page next month and win one of three prizes. They can be savory or sweet, as long as they follow the paleo diet guidelines. (If you’re not familiar with the paleo diet, you can learn more here.)

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