This review is of the website, My Fit Tribe – An Island of Fun Fitness and Friends.

What is this site about and how can it be of any use to you? That’s the question we’re going to answer from doing this review, so let’s get started.

First impression:

Upon arriving at My Fit Tribe, you’re met with an insanely active looking community website with new stories, articles, videos, polls, pictures, interviews, FAQs, image of the month, physique of the month, the list goes on!

In other words, the front page is cluttered to the max and you have no idea where to go! It’s a pleasant looking website with nice colours and graphic design, but it’s very confusing!

The first thing your eyes are directed to is a big picture of a bald guy named Jamo (a skinny Vin Diesel) who apparently does a question and answers section on the site. Beside that is a short summary of an article titled, “Is Sex The New Cardio?” and after looking there you’re most likely to check out the large header logo which looks fun and cool and advertises their new store. Fortunately, I’ve heard of My Fit Tribe being a fitness tracking website, and there’s a small button on the right in amongst the adverts that says, “Check out the new Fitness Tracker”, so I’ll click on that first.

Signing up to My Fit Tribe:

The signup page is covered in Google Adsense adverts, of which we know redirect you to another website, leaving behind the Fit Tribe website. Could this have been an accident or do they really care more about their Google advertising cheque than increasing users at My Fit Tribe?

Either way, I ignore the adverts and fill in my details, only then to be distracted by a nice physique from the Hot Pics being displayed below the adverts on the side column. Fortunately for My Fit Tribe, I had already clicked submit before clicking away from that page, so they still got my registration details and sent me a confirmation email.

The Fitness Tracker:

After getting lost in the user profile, I finally found my way to the fitness tracker, which is now called the Stats Tracker, and turns out to be just a page where you enter your 1 rep max for a bunch of exercises, your measurements for a few bodyparts, and also your weight. It’s restricted to pounds, and the only other option is the date, so I put in a weight, then put in a few 1 rep max weights. It tells you that the next time you log into the page there’ll be graphs there, so I get out then come back and voila, there’s a few graphs there.

Well, that’s about it for the fitness tracker. You can add a progress photo if you want and fill out some more details in your profile like your favourite movies and who you want to meet, (typical social site questions) but it’s not too exciting.

The purpose of My Fit Tribe:

So back to the main page to see if there’s anything useful on this website. After a quick click around the main page it seems as though My Fit Tribe is simply a large fitness info site/blog covering every topic you can think of. Kind of like a magazine that’s been rewritten as a website every week.

Every page has google adverts on it, which gives it the feeling of being purely a money making content site. Kind of like the webpages for popular magazines – covered in adverts.

Although it’s marketed as a fitness community, the forum appears to be dead, and the “groups” seem pretty dull. It also looks as though they’ve tried to replicate Bodybuilding.com’s BodySpace but failed to make it look nice and attract a large crowd.

Quality of content:

Now the big question we’ve gotta ask is, does the content make it worthwhile visiting?

Well, if you’re a newbie, I can guarantee you’re going to come here and get lost. There’s no beginner’s guide that you can see from the front page, and god knows if they even have one! The content jumps straight to an intermediate level, and doesn’t really provide any technical advice, just mainstream advice that you’d read in your everyday magazine. (articles about sex… tsk tsk)

I checked out the exercise section which has about 10 videos of different exercises. Looks promising!

I had to check out deadlifts, because as we all know, they’re probably the most underrated exercise and there’s quite a lot of technical knowledge required to do a proper deadlift without hurting yourself.

To my surprise, the video was of Dorian Yates and Jamo from the front page, telling you that a deadlift is about lifting the weight up and putting it down, with a couple reps performed by Jamo. Dorian talks about keeping hips straight and back flat while Jamo does the set.

The fact that Dorian Yates is in the video is pretty cool, and Jamo definitely does some good deadlifts, or stiff-legged deadlifts to be exact (though with slightly bent legs at the lower end of the rep), but who’s the target audience here? There wasn’t enough description to teach a new person how to do it, and there was definitely nothing special about it. He just did some plain old stiff legged deadlifts on camera.

What else is there to do, and is there any quality content elsewhere?:

Fortunately, there’s a link up the very top saying “What can I do on My Fit Tribe?”

Perfect! This is what I needed to start with!!

Alright, so what else is there to do on My Fit Tribe?

• You can blog!
• Make friends!
• Groups and Forums!
• Upload Pictures!
• Track  your progress!
• Workout with FREE workout circuit videos!
• Watch Videos!
• Read Articles!
• Tell your friends!
• Help the site become what YOU want.

Ummm, I’ve kind of already done all of those…

So… the site promises a lot… and doesn’t quite deliver.

The content is pretty basic, but not descriptive enough for new people. The videos are high quality image-wise and have some nice looking fitness models performing exercises. There’s no product advertisements from what I saw, so there’s no bias or sales pitches. But it’s not the site you come to expecting to find a guide which you can follow.

If you’re into gossip and fitness, need your weekly dose of articles about sex, and like watching fitness models do exercises, then sure, My Fit Tribe is PERFECT for you! But if you want to learn how to get fit, read about advanced techniques or dieting tactics, or just keep up to date on the fitness industry, you’re probably not going to get any value out of it.

Either way, check it out for yourself. The site has a lot of potential, and Jamo seems to be a pretty cool guy. He does have a good following, but nothing compared to what we see on the popular fitness sites.

www.MyFitTribe.com