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The newest member of Team Viggity is putting it all on the line for you. This is the first Team Viggity live case study, and our participant is none other than Whitney of Itapboys.com fame. She has graciously volunteered to help me enlighten you, the reader, by making her progress and protocol known to the public. Whitney’s 3 month Team Viggity program will be followed and updated weekly in order for the reader to more fully understand the type of real life changes that are possible. You don’t have to worry about being fooled by phony doctors, photoshopped pics, or other whacky gimmicks because this is going to be done in real time, with real numbers, using a real person. Many sites will show you fake studies, give fake testimony, alter photos, and make up statistics in order to get your money. I’m offering you an honest, up front look at what I do with people everyday that make a real difference in their lives. Follow along, and hopefully you’ll be inspired to make your own real life change. For more info contact teamviggity@gmail.com and for more on Whitney go to Itapboys.com
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Money Ball
I just came home from watching the new movie Money Ball. 
The story of Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane’s successful attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players. This movie chronicled the success the of the Oakland A’s in the 2002 season, a success that was created by going against the norm and using statistics as their primary tool, not baseball instinct. In the movie, Brad Pitt’s character Billy Beane, the A’s general manager, loses three of his best players to richer baseball clubs, namely, the New York Yankees, who could pay the high salaries. As a Yankees fan, I wanted to laugh and walk out, but I already paid my 8 bucks and figured I’d see what happens. Beane was faced with a problem. How do you compete with the Yankees without their bankroll? Even if he could recreate the stars he lost, he’d merely have his team gutted the next season. If he couldn’t have a huge bankroll, he’d have change the way he looked at the game. Focused entirely on statistical analysis to give his team an edge, Billy looked at On Base Percentage, Walks, Hits, and Runs, to get wins. He ditched defense as a priority, and turned wins into an equation. The movie was quite good actually, and I’d recommend any fan of baseball to check it out.
As I left the theatre, I had a thought about the parallels of Money Ball, body building, and statistics. A particular client of mine popped into my head, Tyson Kidd. Below is a picture of what Tyson looked like using traditional philosophies of bodybuilding at age 20.
Tyson Kidd 2002
You’d take one look at him and think, “Man, that dude works out. He must train hard and eat right.” And you’d be right, to a certain extent. 10 years ago, Tyson was 20, and he was a ball of energy and testosterone. He read everything he could, talked to the biggest guys at his gym, and followed instructions. He trained like a mad man, and ate anything he could, being sure to take in a ton of calories, especially protein. He drank his whole milk, took his creatine, and worked his way to a jacked up 175 pounds of new muscle and unbridled strength. But, he didn’t have the bankroll to compete with the Yankees. Tyson gained probably 20 lbs from 18-20 and there’s no doubt he earned that weight, but because he wasn’t blessed with freaky genetics, he didn’t have a championship team.
So what takes a “Kidd” from that to this?
WWE Superstar Tyson Kidd - 2012
There are a million programs, a million intensifying techniques, a million methods, and a million more opinions on each. People get so confused about what they are doing, that they fail to focus on anything, and thus fail to make improvements. “Muscle Confusion” is something I used to read about all the time. “You gotta confuse your muscles.” What? There’s a scene in Money Ball where all the scouts are sitting around a table looking at some hot prospects. They bring up a certain guy and one scout shoots him down because he has an ugly girlfriend. “He’s got an ugly girlfriend. That must mean he lacks confidence, and thus can’t be a pro ball player.” I’m paraphrasing, but that’s pretty close to the quote. Tyson Kidd became obsessed with numbers. He started to chart all of his lifts. Before he was simply reading FLEX magazine and other garbage to get a routine, following the professionals advice, and it worked for a while, but it didn’t get him that gold ring. Once he started to write down all of his stats, he started to see that “muscle confusion,” and all the other ridiculous philosophies he’d read about in the mags, didn’t cut it after all. He needed to reinvent the game because he didn’t have the bankroll (genetics) of the mass monsters. What he did have was the numbers. After looking at all of his stats, he figured out his routine was not working. It wasn’t working because it was scattered all over the place, full of “drop sets” and “isolation” moves, that didn’t have any consistency. The myth of changing the routine every session basically resets your progression to zero. How can you honestly track your progress if you’re changing a million things? Once he got focused, put his emphasis on improving his stats, and staying consistent with the lifts that work, he started to make progress again. Statistics pan out over the course of the season. How can you expect to squat a lot of weight, if you don’t try and squat a lot of weight, write down your stats, and then try to beat them?
Undervalued Talent
Tyson Kidd is a perfect example of an undervalued player, often over looked because of “instincts.” He didn’t have the initial flash of a freak show, but once he upped his statistics, he made himself into quite the money player. In the end of the movie, Billy realizes that he changed the game, not only for the A’s, but for all of baseball. He created an invaluable tool, and without knowing it, he had hit a home run. Tyson Kidd has hit a home run too, but now, he wants to hit a grand slam.
