Welcome to the Straight Health Forums

[ken]

Since you've found your way to this site, you're probably interested in improving your health through proper diet and exercise. This post will help you get to know this community a little better by showing you where to find important information on rules, contests, forum organization and help with features such as posting, messaging and updating your profile. If you haven't registered yet, please take the time to do so. It only takes a few seconds.

Rules
No community can function properly without a set of rules. Before you begin posting, please make sure you're familiar with the rules of this forum. No one likes excessive regulations so I've kept them short and to the point. Read the rules here.

Introduce Yourself
The first thing to do after you've signed up is to post an introduction thread. You don't have to give us all your personal details, but you can let the community know your name, where you're from and why you joined up. You can also read past intro posts so you can get to know the people who have already joined.

Question and Answers
You may also have questions on contests, post counts and max bench press points. All the answers to these types of questions can be found at the forum FAQs.

Profile
Every member has a profile that includes information such as your hobbies, favorite exercise and food. You can also upload a small picture of yourself or other graphic that represents who you are (an avatar). All new members should visit their User CP (CP is short for control panel) to update their profile settings.

Forums
The articles forum is where information on diets, exercise and staying healthy will be posted. These articles will lay out what you need to do to lose weight, gain muscle, eat healthy and a lot more. If you want to contribute an article, click the new post button while in the forum and you will be notified if it is approved.

The cardiovascular forum is where you can post and read about anything that has to do with aerobic exercise – running, biking, walking, playing sports or anything else you consider cardio.

The weightlifting forum is for questions and answers on subjects such as free weights, machines and any anaerobic workout. You can talk about exercising in a gym using barbells or at home using your own bodyweight.

The Weekly SH Fitness Challenge is a place where you can compete against other members of this forum in a weekly challenge that can be anything from puhsups to running.

The weight control and nutrition forum deals with any topics such as dieting for weight loss or weight gain, specific foods, supplements and recipes.

The health poll of the week forum is where a weekly vote will be held on a variety of issues. Guests can vote and post without registering.

The coffee table is where you can discuss any topic that isn't covered in one of the other forums – health related or not.

Help with Features
If you need help with certain features such as logging in, updating your profile or changing your password, visit the help section.

[rgztm]

Great forum Ken. You've done a great job and hope you continue well. I'm glad to be a part of this community and hope to find what I need here.

Thank you for having me.

[thad99]

Looks like this forum will have a lot of information, and be very helpful to me.

[patirving]

I appreciate thad99 referring me to this website. I have already learned a few things in the little bit of time I've spent on the website. As I poke around more and more, I'm sure I'll learn more and more. Thanks for creating and maintaining this forum, Ken.

[Beankyu]

Thanks a lot for cearting this.
Just try to continue and we will share more.

[Mitch]

Thanks! This seems to be interesting to be part of this community.

[cloudy9]

Thanks for accepting my registration here... This is site is interesting about health...

[Charrell]

Thanks! I found this forum very informative.

[sweetgirl]

Great forum thanx Ken!

[jasonstrent070]

yes right! cool to get started to this forum. thanks.