The Fitness League Concept

For years I have been trying to turn dieting and the sport of physique transformation into a team effort.  I enjoy training in the gym, which can be done with a training partner, but the dieting portion has always been a one-person effort.  As I chug my protein shake, nobody has ever stood over me shouting go, go! Go! GO !

Could there be a way to diet as a team and compete against other teams in a league?  If you were a first timer with lots of weight to lose, you wouldn't want to compete against another teams full of professional athletes, but rather teams with similar characteristics as yours.  Similarly if you work for a big company or are part of a large organization, you may want to compete against other people within that organization only.  How could you organize yourselves to pull this off?  You might want to compete on two levels, as an individual and as a member of a five-person team.

Even if we could solve these problems, we still have to know on what basis are you competing.  Is it strictly weight loss, or perhaps fat loss, maybe number and intensity of workouts, or is it hitting your calorie and ratio goals? 

Sitting on a rock by myself this Spring on Pike's Peak, the answers finally came to me, so I quickly jotted them down in black felt pen on the t-shirt I was wearing, and ran down the mountain.  I eagerly put the smelly old shirt in front of the best programmer I know, Pete Alvin and said, Viola!  (I then realized this was a typo, so I said, Voila!  Pete, laughed)

Pete studied the shirt and said he could pull it off!  He is a man of few words, but tremendous talents.

We will be launching a new concept we call Fitness Leagues.  As a PhysiqueTransformation.com member, you will be able to form teams, petition for team members, set attributes and have at it against other teams with any criteria your specify.  Self-appointed team captains will be able add and remove members and change team attributes on the fly.  We will provide all the communication tools necessary to motivate, encourage and even gently tease the other players on your team and other teams in your league!  Each day your team will be ranked with the other teams in your league.  Your objective is to appear at the top of the list. 

The idea is to provide our community of users a way to interact and compete with one another in a friendly, encouraging and fun way.  You will be able to develop friendships with people around the country and world and like old army buddies who go through an experience together, you may remain friends for life!

As our community continues to grow, there will come a day when I can no longer pick up the phone and give you some one-on-one encouragement so the best, most natural way is to give you the necessary tools to encourage and share ideas among yourselves!  Only then will you truly be free!

As we get closer and closer to the launch date, I will be asking some of you to form some beta teams and try to break the software.  At this time, we will be asking our testers for feedback, comments and criticisms of the program so when we launch we will be ready to hit the ground running!