Questions, answered straight.

A strength system for busy people, built two ways. The Playbook app gives you the program: 30-minute sessions, three days a week, minimal equipment. Coaching adds the coach: a program built for you, your form reviewed, and someone in your corner week after week.

Honest answer: if you’ve trained before and you’ll follow a clear plan, the app is enough. If you’ve restarted more than twice, if nobody notices when you skip, if old aches make you second-guess your form — that’s what coaching is for. Accountability is the product. The workouts are the easy part.

Thirty minutes a session, three sessions a week. The program is built around a real schedule — it flexes with your week instead of asking you to rebuild your life around it.

Yes — this is the most-studied question behind the program. Minimum-dose research shows about four hard sets per muscle each week produces meaningful strength and muscle gains (Iversen et al., Sports Medicine, 2021), and even single hard sets, done 2–3 times a week, build real strength (Androulakis-Korakakis et al., 2021). Yardline sessions get there by pairing exercises and cutting wasted rest — supersets roughly halve session time without reducing results (Sports Medicine, 2025). The honest ceiling: 30 minutes won’t maximize every muscle for an advanced physique athlete. For getting strong and staying strong, it clears the bar with room to spare.

Then do more — 30 is the floor, not a ceiling. The evidence says total weekly work matters more than how you split it (Schoenfeld et al., Sports Medicine, 2016), and extra sets keep adding muscle, with diminishing returns (Schoenfeld et al., 2017). Coached clients get sessions built to their real schedule — 30, 45, 60 minutes, whatever fits. In the app, every program is a base: the built-in workout builder lets you add sessions or extra work on top whenever you have the time.

Less than you’d think. Fat loss is driven by a sustainable calorie deficit — mostly diet. Fasted cardio burns no more fat than fed cardio when calories match (Schoenfeld, Aragon et al., JISSN, 2014), and the body partly compensates for extreme cardio volumes (Pontzer et al., Current Biology, 2016). What protects your results while you lose fat: keep lifting and eat enough protein (Morton et al., British Journal of Sports Medicine, 2018). Moderate cardio and daily steps support the deficit. Hours on a treadmill don’t multiply it.

A set of resistance bands and/or a pair of dumbbells, plus a bench or a sturdy chair. No gym required. If you do train at a gym, the programming scales up to it.

Yes — that describes most people who start here. Programs meet you at your current level and build gradually. Consistent beats perfect.

No. Dylan has coached women and men for over 12 years — same method, same standard. Perimenopause strength, a comeback after years away, or just getting genuinely strong for the decades ahead: 30 minutes, minimal gear, and every claim backed by named research.

Dylan — coach with a B.S. in Kinesiology, over 12 years in the fitness industry, and time on an ambulance. Every claim in a Yardline program points to published research, not trends. Read his story on the About page.

$12.99 a month or $79.99 a year. The monthly plan starts with 7 days free; both renew automatically at the price shown until you cancel. Cancel anytime. Subscribed on iPhone? In your iPhone’s Settings → Subscriptions. On the web? In Settings → Manage subscription.

Coaching starts with a free 15-minute fit call, so we can both make sure it’s the right fit. Current pricing for every plan is on the Plans page.

The app is available now, and coaching starts any Monday. Book a free fit call, or enroll directly on the Plans page.

Yes. Playbook: Cancel anytime. Subscribed on iPhone? In your iPhone’s Settings → Subscriptions. On the web? In Settings → Manage subscription. You keep access through your billing period. Coaching runs in 16-week programs: pay in full or in 4 automatic monthly payments. Cancellation and refunds follow the Coaching Agreement.

Yardline provides coaching and education, not medical care. If you’re managing an injury or a condition, clear training with your physician first — and tell your coach so the programming respects it.

Three ways. Video demos run throughout the library, so you’re not guessing at form. On coaching plans, your training syncs to the calendar you already run your life on. And on coached plans there’s a real human — me — building the plan and reading your check-ins. Apps don’t notice when your week falls apart. A coach does.

Playbook is for the self-starter: you get the full system and run it yourself. The Reset is for anyone who wants a coach setting the plan and reviewing their week, every week. 1-on-1 is for the person who wants everything built around them specifically — schedule, injuries, travel, all of it. If you’re not sure, start with The Reset; you can always move up to 1-on-1 later.

Inside the app. The Reset runs on a weekly check-in where I review your training and nutrition and adjust the plan. On The Reset you can message me anytime — I answer every weekday. 1-on-1 adds weekly video form review and scheduled calls. No email chains, no lost threads.

Honest answer: strength moves first — most people add weight to their lifts within 2–3 weeks. Visible change usually shows in 8–12 weeks of consistent work. Anyone promising a transformation in 14 days is selling you a photo angle. We build for years, and the first 16 weeks is where it turns.

On coaching, it’s the do-the-work guarantee: we set your goals together, you follow the plan as written, and if it isn’t moving, we adjust it with you until it does. It’s a coaching promise, not a money-back one. Your refund rights are in the Coaching Agreement: cancel within 5 business days of signing for a full refund, or any time after for the unused part of your program. On Playbook, you start with a 7-day free trial and cancel anytime, so you never have to guess whether it’s for you.

Both coaching programs can be split into 4 automatic monthly payments — 4 payments of $324.25 for The Reset, $749.25 for 1-on-1 — same total as paying in full.

Yes. Checkout runs on Stripe — the same payment infrastructure used by millions of businesses. Yardline never sees or stores your card number.

Ask it straight — email yardlinefit@gmail.com. A real person reads every message.