How We Make Money
How Bodyward makes money
When a fitness & strength, grooming, oral care, and recovery & therapy reader buys through a lifting chalk or barbell oil product-page link, Bodyward can earn a qualifying-purchase commission — but the fitness & strength, grooming, oral care, and recovery & therapy scores and ranks are fixed on merit before any link exists, so the commission changes nothing.
How do Amazon Associates links work?
Each live fitness & strength, grooming, oral care, and recovery & therapy pick sends a lifting chalk or barbell oil button to its specific Amazon /dp/ASIN page under the site's Associates tag, never a search result. A completed purchase can pay a small commission at no added cost. Per Amazon's rule: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
How is scoring kept independent?
Scores for a lifting chalk, a barbell oil, and every other fitness & strength, grooming, oral care, and recovery & therapy product are computed from published specifications first, then a link is attached — never the other way round. The 0-100 grade never moves because a link exists. The scoring formula is published on the Scoring Methodology page, including each criterion and its relative weight. Each product entry includes at least one documented drawback so readers can judge whether a product fits their specific situation rather than taking its aggregate rank at face value.
What do we refuse to do?
No payment moves a fitness & strength, grooming, oral care, and recovery & therapy rank: a lifting chalk's score and a barbell oil's placement are fixed by the published specs, not by a commercial relationship, and we take no free product or sponsored placement to change them.
Is there any other revenue?
The Amazon Associates program is the sole fitness & strength, grooming, oral care, and recovery & therapy revenue source today; should another affiliate or advertising relationship ever start, this page will name it here before it launches.