Seven rep schemes, natively
Straight sets, to-failure, AMRAP, rest-pause down series, timed holds, drop sets, and fully explicit pyramids — each with its own real parameters, not a notes field.
For coaches
Write programs the way you actually coach.
Oblige is an authoring studio built around real prescription — tempo, cues, RIR, seven rep schemes, and skill progressions as first-class objects. Encode your method once; stop translating it into spreadsheet cells.
Your method lives in your head. Your tools store sets and reps.
You prescribe 30X0 tempo, 2 reps in reserve, band-assisted this block — and the spreadsheet stores “3×8.”
Your cues are your coaching. They’re also scattered across DMs, video captions, and memory.
You build athletes toward movements — but every app thinks in workouts, so your progression logic lives nowhere.
The model
A prescription model that speaks your language.
Oblige’s core is a library and programming engine designed the way coaches actually think, not the way databases are easy to build.
Tempo and RIR as first-class fields
30X0 means what you mean by it, on every set, visible to the athlete mid-session.
Cues that travel with the exercise
Ordered, atomic coaching cues attached to each movement — shown during the session, exactly when they’re needed.
Variations per prescription
Band-assisted, deficit, tempo-shifted — selected when you program, snapshotted into the workout, so history records what was actually done.
Skill progressions as structure
Ordered chains toward goal movements — with prerequisites, regressions, and alternatives derived from muscle, pattern, and difficulty. Your progression logic becomes an object you can edit, not tribal knowledge.
A library that understands anatomy
Hierarchical muscle taxonomy — search “hip” and find everything from adductor work to end-range control drills, however specifically you tagged it.
Sessions and publishing
Programs deserve better than a PDF at the squat rack.
The Oblige mobile app runs sessions with the same fidelity you authored them: per-set logging with your tempo and cues on screen, timers that match the rep scheme (AMRAP windows, timed holds, rest), unilateral work handled properly (both sides, then rest), and mid-session swaps that respect your progression logic — an athlete who can’t do step 6 today gets offered step 5, not a random substitute. Works offline; syncs when the gym Wi-Fi doesn’t.
Currently iOS, in TestFlight beta
Publish once. Trainees subscribe with one tap.
The marketplace is in beta: publishing turns a program into a self-contained bundle — workouts, exercises, cues, your name on it. A trainee taps subscribe and receives their own copy to run at full fidelity. No payments yet — that layer is being built with founding coaches, and shaping it is part of the seat.
Publishing in beta · payments in the works
Radical status honesty
Where Oblige is today — plainly.
Live now
- The coach studio (web): exercise library, workout builder, program designer, progression authoring
- Bulk import: bring your existing library in via CSV or JSON — or let us do it for you (see founding seats)
- The iOS session app, in TestFlight beta
- Program publishing (beta): publish a program; a trainee subscribes and gets their own full-fidelity copy
Being built with founding coaches
- Payments for published programs — sell, not just share
- Client rosters and delivery visibility — assign programs, see client sessions
- Per-client program adjustments
- Exercise video attachments
- Android
Not on the roadmap
- Streaks, badges, and engagement gamification
- Ads, or any monetization of your data
- AI that writes programs instead of you
Today, honestly: you can author your method, run it yourself, and publish programs trainees can subscribe to — free, while the trainee doors are still opening. Payments and client rosters are exactly what founding coaches are shaping. If you need paid, multi-client delivery this month, we’ll tell you to wait; join the list and we’ll write when it’s real.
The offer
Founding coaches — a small group, on purpose.
We’re onboarding 10 founding coaches while the client-delivery layer is built. Founding seats are limited because onboarding is genuinely hands-on:
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White-glove import
Send us your library — spreadsheet, doc, however it lives — and we return it encoded in Oblige: rep schemes, tempos, cues, progressions, all of it. Your method, in the instrument, without you typing a thing.
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Early access, free
Full studio and app access through the founding period. When pricing arrives, founding coaches keep preferential terms — locked before anyone else pays anything.
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A direct line
You talk to the person who builds Oblige, and the client-delivery layer gets built around what your current tools can’t express.
What we ask back: use it on your real programming, tell us where it fights you, and let us tell your story when you’re happy to have it told. That’s the whole deal.
Request a founding seat
No newsletter-blast. You’ll get a short series about how Oblige works, then a personal reply from Enrique.
About the builder
Oblige is built independently byEnrique Velasco — a professional dancer who spent years watching serious prescription get flattened into spreadsheet cells, and decided the tool should speak the coach’s language instead.
More about Oblige →Questions, answered plainly.
What does it cost?
Nothing today. Founding coaches get free access through the founding period and preferential terms when pricing arrives — set before any public pricing, in writing.
Is my library locked in?
No. Your content is yours. Ask any time and we’ll send you everything you’ve authored as structured JSON. Import is also self-serve (CSV/JSON) if you’d rather not wait for white-glove.
Can my clients use it today?
In beta, yes — publish a program and anyone on Oblige can subscribe and run their own copy, at full fidelity. What doesn’t exist yet: payments, client rosters, and visibility into their sessions. That’s the layer founding coaches are shaping, and we won’t pretend otherwise.
Android?
The studio is web-based and works anywhere. The session app is iOS-first; Android follows the founding period.
Do I need to change how I program?
No — that’s the point. If you can write it on paper, the model can hold it: seven rep schemes, tempo, RIR, cues, variations, progressions. If you find something it can’t express, that’s precisely the feedback a founding seat is for.
Who’s behind this?
One builder, full-time attention: Enrique Velasco, professional dancer.