Hello and thanks for your interest in joining GUS.
Simply click the "Join Ground Up Strength Button" and a secure pop-up window will take you through the steps of creating a quick free account. You will need to verify your account through the email which will automatically be sent to the address you provide. If you don't see the email in your in box be sure to check your spam folder. By creating an account you become a wikidot member as well as a Ground Up Strength member.
You do not need to be a site member to post threads and replies in the forum or to comment on any of the articles at Ground Up Strength. Please note however that forum posts and threads made by non-site members will be managed at our discretion. This is to protect the integrity of site content and to protect against link dropping. We hate censorship as much as you do, though, so every effort will be made to only delete offending material and to retain as much of the content of such posts as possible. Besides obvious spam this may never even come up but we need to point it out anyway.
So please feel welcome to participate. We want anyone to feel comfortable in asking a question or posting a comment and nobody will ever be flamed or made to feel made fun of. If your purpose is just to get a bit stronger and get in shape then you belong here. If your purpose is too lift ridiculously heavy things, then you belong here. If your purpose is just to associate with people who share your interests…I think you get the picture.
This is not some self aggrandizing and bloated fitness site filled with adolescents who spend more time posting porn in the open discussion than discussing fitness. Open and frank discussion will be welcomed but we are not here to please everyone and anyone just to drive up site traffic. We are here to help people achieve their goals and to learn. Don't get the wrong idea. We also have a general discussion, books (fiction and nonfiction) and movies category.
A unique capability you will find here is the ability to directly discuss the site's content via the forum. If you have a question about something you read in an article here or you simply disagree you can use the comment function at the bottom of the articles or posts. If you do not see a comments button you will still find, way down on the bottom toolbar a "discuss" button. You can use that to automatically create a forum thread related to the page. When the comment function is used, the discussions will be found both on the page being discussed AND on a dedicated forum thread, depending on which one your are most comfortable with.
Members of Ground Up Strength can also create their own pages within the site. This site, hosted by the great folks at wikidot (probably the best wiki there is) is not used as an open project but members enjoy the advantages of the wiki nonetheless.
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