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.

Yes. The voice speaks to busy men 30–55; the training serves anyone. Women train here for postpartum rebuilds, for strength through the menopause years, and to simply get strong. Same coach, same standard.

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

$29 a month or $199 a year, with a 7-day free trial. Cancel anytime.

Coached is $499/month. Captain is $999/month, the highest-touch tier. Both start with a short application — coaching spots are capped, and fit matters more than volume.

Doors open Monday, August 10. The waitlist gets first access — and the free 30-Minute Strength Blueprint on the way.

Yes — cancel anytime. Subscribed in the app? Two taps in your iPhone settings. Subscribed on the web? Manage it from the billing link in your receipt. Either way, you keep access through your billing period. Coaching is month-to-month.

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.

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