What are the most popular web / blog sites for personal trainers,
nutritionists, and massage therapists?  In other words, the most
popular web / blog sites for fitness providers?

Hi! Thanks for the question.

Alexa provides traffic rankings for different sites. It has different
categories and one of them is fitness. You can get the site rankings
of the different fitness websites by clicking on the ?site info? link.

Alexa: ?Sites in Fitness?
http://www.alexa.com/browse/general/?&CategoryID=167&mode=general&R=True&Start=1&SortBy=Popularity


If you are particularly concerned with the most popular fitness
provider sites, please go to this link.

Alexa: Fitness Services
http://www.alexa.com/browse/general/?&CategoryID=209515&mode=general&Start=1&SortBy=Popularity


Now if you are looking for rankings of personal pages, advice or
blogs, please take a look at these rankings.

Alexa: Fitness Personal Pages
http://www.alexa.com/browse/general/?&CategoryID=458861&mode=general&SortBy=Popularity&mode=general&R=&Start=11


Search strategy used:  
Searched at Alexa: http://www.alexa.com/ 

I hope these links would help you in your research. Before rating this
answer, please ask for a clarification if you have a question or if
you would need further information.
                                                          
                              
Regards,                              
Easterangel-ga                              
Google Answers Researcher

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Clarification of Answer by easterangel-ga on 15 Mar 2006 02:35 PST

Correction: Here is the top sites or the first page of results for
Alexa as regards to the personal pages.

Alexa: Fitness Personal Pages
http://www.alexa.com/browse/general/?&CategoryID=458861&mode=general&SortBy=Popularity&mode=general&R=&Start=1


The page I referenced above for this category was actually page 2.
Sorry about that error.

Thanks.

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Request for Answer Clarification by shirov-ga on 15 Mar 2006 05:01 PST

Hi, I asked what sites are most popular with fitness provides, not how
to track them down.  The answer you gave gives the most popular
according to one source.  If this is the type of answer that I'm going
to get, could I please have multiple sources?  I'm sure that
www.alexa.com is popular, however, not all user rank sites from this
place.

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Clarification of Answer by easterangel-ga on 15 Mar 2006 06:54 PST

Hi thanks for the quick reply.

My reason for choosing such sites is that not only are these the top
fitness sites but also the advice and personal commentaries will be
monitored by the providers as well since they would want to know what
their peers have to say.

Anyway, it seems that there isn't really a survey on fitness providers
and Alexa is the most comprehensive ranking site that publishes their
data for free.

Here are the different ratings aside from ALexa but not nearly as
comprehensive. I was only able to find two of these.

WebRings
http://dir.webring.com/rw?d=Health___Wellness/Fitness_and_Nutrition/;t=tr

Nielsen//NetRatings NetView
http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=38807

I hope this clarification was of help to you.

Thanks again.