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Old 11-21-2007, 02:02 AM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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An actual ranking based on

* GNC members per city and Bodybuilding.com members per city
* Bodybuilding.com supplement sales per city and GNC supplement sales per city
* Gym participants per 100 people
* MUSCLE & FITNESS, FLEX subscribers
* Number of gyms per 100,000 residents
* Certified personal trainers per city
* National Physique Committee members per city
* USA Powerlifting members per city
* Body-Solid equipment sales per city

America's 25 largest cities ranked
1) Denver, Colorado
2) Seattle, Washington
3) Columbus, Ohio
4) Boston, Massachusetts
5) San Jose, California
6) Baltimore, Maryland
6) San Diego, California
8) Dallas, Texas
9) Charlotte, North Carolina
9) Detroit, Michigan
11) San Francisco, California
12) Indianapolis, Indiana
12) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania TIE
14) Los Angeles, California
15) Chicago, Illinois
16) Phoenix, Arizona
17) New York, New York
18) Austin, Texas
18) Jacksonville, Florida
18) Houston, Texas TIE
21) Milwaukee, Wisconsin
22) El Paso, Texas
23) Fort Worth. Texas
24) San Antonio, Texas
25) Memphis, Tennessee

The strongest cities in America: we took the 25 most populous cities in the country, applied nine criterions of strength and determined America's most muscular Muscle & Fitness - Find Articles
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Old 11-21-2007, 06:39 AM
 
Location: Texas
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No surprise Columbus being towards the top. Is is the home to Westside Barbell if I remember correctly.
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Old 11-21-2007, 09:33 AM
 
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I wouldn't consider GNC supplement sales a real measure .
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Old 11-21-2007, 09:39 AM
 
Location: Phoenix metro
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I wouldn't consider GNC supplement sales a real measure .
I was thinking the same thing.
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Old 11-21-2007, 09:48 AM
 
Location: Scarsdale, NY
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This can't be accurate. It's basically a sales record of bodybuilding.com. Philly tied with Indy? Nah, I doubt that. From what I saw, Indy was a pretty scrawny city.

And Austin was named America's most fit city, big football town. How is it so far down the list? Findarticles.com is not exactly reliable.
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Old 11-21-2007, 09:50 AM
 
Location: Omaha, Ne
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I wouldn't consider GNC supplement sales a real measure .
I would consider GNC supplement sales a sign of fat people trying the lazy diets that don't work.
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Old 11-21-2007, 12:07 PM
 
Location: Denver,Co
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This is the craziest ranking ever. LOL funny I guess we are all a bunch of He-Mans and Barbarians here in denver. I have this funny mental image of a bunch of muscle heads wondering around the streets with tank tops and sweat bands. BTW when was the last time you saw a fatty in GNC waddling around looking for supplements?
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Old 11-21-2007, 12:28 PM
 
Location: Denver
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What's a GNC ?
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Old 11-21-2007, 12:56 PM
 
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a lot of this is just based on supplement sales. a better measure would be a study which finds the cities with the most gym memberships that actually use them or the most sales of home fitness equipment.
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Old 11-21-2007, 02:01 PM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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This is the craziest ranking ever. LOL funny I guess we are all a bunch of He-Mans and Barbarians here in denver.
sounds hot.

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I have this funny mental image of a bunch of muscle heads wondering around the streets with tank tops and sweat bands.
Doesnt sound so hot.

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BTW when was the last time you saw a fatty in GNC waddling around looking for supplements?
Never. I dunno where folks got that idea from...I usually see scary people who look like they are on steroids in there.
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