eXerciseFriends.Com Ranked 6th Most Popular Health and Fitness Site on the Internet
Posted on: Monday, 17 October 2005, 06:00 CDT
eXerciseFriends.com (www.eXerciseFriends.com), the best place to find friends to exercise with, announced today it has been ranked the sixth most popular health and fitness Website. This incredible achievement is based on traffic statistics provided by www.Alexa.com (an Amazon.com company), that aggregates Internet traffic statistics for all Websites. What makes this even more impressive is that eXerciseFriends.com launched in January of 2005.
eXerciseFriends.com is free for members, relying on advertising for revenue, making it a win-win situation for both members and advertisers. Members find local area friends to exercise with in the sport or fitness activity of their choice; who are at their skill level and can workout on their schedule. Advertisers love the site because of its high volume of targeted traffic from a focused audience. Many studies have shown that people who exercise with a partner have more fun, stick with it longer and get better results. eXerciseFriends.com even allows teams to register in order to find other teams to play with and offers free fitness, diet and health advice from experts in their respective fields.
"The holidays are just around the corner and Americans tend to put on the pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's," said Patrick McCluskey, president and co-founder of eXerciseFriends.com. "Add to that the fact that obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol and high blood pressure are all on the rise and it becomes obvious that we all need to exercise more and take better care of ourselves and our site helps people do just that."
eXerciseFriends.com provides easy-to-use drop-down menus and check boxes when members register and choose from more than 111 fitness activities to enjoy. Members post basic biographical information about themselves and the kind of person or people they are looking for as exercise friends and can even upload pictures of themselves, pets, cars, homes, or anything that gives insight into their personality.
-- Friends motivate! Once you're there it is easy to exercise.
-- eXerciseFriends.com is the place to find a workout/fitness partner(s).
-- eXerciseFriends.com helps to get you off the couch and out of the office.
-- eXerciseFriends.com for every shape, every activity & every age; basically, everybody.
About eXerciseFriends.com
eXerciseFriends.com was launched in January of '05 with the mission to help people across the United States and Canada find friends in their local area to exercise with who share the same schedule and fitness level. Obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes and high cholesterol are all on the rise and each of these conditions can be reduced or eliminated through exercise and proper nutrition. Obesity-related deaths are now the #2 preventable killer in the United States and is expected to surpass smoking as the #1 preventable killer of Americans in the not-too-distant future. Meet Friends. Exercise More! www.eXerciseFriends.com
Alexa.com Ranking of TOP 10 MOST POPULAR FITNESS SITES: http://www.alexa.com/browse?&CategoryID=167
Source: Business Wire
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