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Pick a coach-built plan
Choose the plan that matches your goals. Each one is programmed by your coach and backed by real results.
Built to peak when it counts.
The training system that took Wes Kitts to the Tokyo Olympics, built for the forever athlete. Personalized to you, in your ear, every session.
How Farren works
Available on iOS
Meet Dave Spitz
Dave Spitz founded California Strength and became one of the few American coaches trained in the Bulgarian system. His gym has stacked national team titles and American records, he coached Wes Kitts to Tokyo, and his combine prep has put more than 50 players in the NFL. Two very different games, one common thread: Dave gets athletes to peak on the exact day it counts.
A bar that moves faster every month. PRs that keep coming after everyone said they'd stop. Whether your version of the combine is a meet, a season, or a ski trip with your kids, Dave's programs are built for one thing: getting you to peak when it counts.
How Farren works
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Make the plan yours
Talk with your coach about your schedule and your equipment and how you actually live. Your plan adapts to fit your life instead of the other way around.
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Train on your terms
Personalized workouts are ready and waiting on the days you want to train. Open the app and your next session is already set.
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Your coach in your ear
Every session is guided by your coach with real-time cues and encouragement. Each movement is programmed with purpose so your work turns into progress you can feel.
Never do nothing.
Dave's signature plans
Three plans built around your lifts and your calendar, personalized so your strength peaks on the day it counts.
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Barbell WOD Sharpen Olympic technique, positional strength, and cycling efficiency until the barbell is a weapon in every workout instead of the ceiling on your score.
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Ripped & Ready Train like an athlete again with seasonal blocks that build strength, power, and engine year round, made for the former athlete who misses a program.
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Cal Strength Club Run daily programming straight from the Cal Strength floor, cycling lifters toward snatch and clean and jerk numbers that are competition ready.
Access to Dave, 24/7
Ask him anything, any hour. How to fix a snatch that keeps drifting forward. What to do when your back is smoked before a heavy day. How to peak for a meet, a season, or the biggest event on your calendar. He remembers what you told him last time and builds on it. The kind of access that used to require moving to his gym.
Who should train with Dave?
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Chasing the platform
You snatch, you clean, you jerk. You want programming from a coach who's put lifters on the world stage.
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The forever athlete
You're not competing for medals. You're training to perform in life's biggest events, and you want strength built to last.
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Getting back under the bar
It's been a while. Rebuild the strength and the engine with a system that meets you where you are, not where you left off.
Start with Dave, build your team
Build a coaching team that used to be reserved for the wealthy, on a plan that gets more personalized the more you train.
- All of Dave's signature plans with full audio coaching
- HD video demos for every movement
- 24/365 access to Dave, ask anything, anytime
- Programming that adjusts to your life
- Access to every other coach in the Farren app
The Farren App
Build your team of world-class coaches
Direct access to the kind of coaching team that used to be reserved for the wealthy: a strength coach, a mobility coach, a yoga coach, all in one app. Every plan is built on each coach's own methodology, and it sharpens the more you train, so the program keeps fitting as you change.
- Built on your coach's real methodology, not a template
- Thousands of exercises, narrowed to the right ones for you
- Message your coaching team any time
- A plan that gets sharper the more you train
The world's best coaches, in your ear, every workout.
FAQs
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What is Farren?
Farren is a fitness coaching app that gives you a personalized training program from a real coach. Instead of generic workouts, your plan is built on the methodology of coaches like Kelly Starrett and Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr, adapted to your goals, experience, and equipment.
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How does Farren work?
Farren pairs you with a real coach and turns their training methodology into a personalized program inside the app. You pick your coach, answer a few questions about your goals and experience, and get a plan built on how that coach actually trains their athletes. As you log workouts, the app adapts your programming based on your progress.
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Who are the coaches on Farren?
Farren's coaching roster includes Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr, Kelly Starrett, Annie Thorisdottir, John Welbourn, Paul Fabritz, Eric Leija, Dave Spitz, Shane Orr, Meghan Hayden, Carling Harps, Madeleine Conti, and LA Thoma Gustin. Each coach brings their own training methodology, from CrossFit and Olympic weightlifting to mobility, basketball performance, and kettlebell training.
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Are the coaches on Farren real people?
Yes. Every program on Farren comes from a real coach with a real track record. Annie Thorisdottir and Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr have won multiple CrossFit Games titles, Paul Fabritz trains NBA athletes, and Dave Spitz coaches Olympic weightlifters. These are the same methods they use with their own athletes, adapted to your level.
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What makes Farren different from other fitness apps?
Most fitness apps give you a template. Farren gives you a coach. Your program comes from a specific person with a track record, and adjusts as you train rather than repeating a fixed plan. You train the way their athletes train, scaled to where you are now.
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Do I need Olympic lifting experience?
No. The programming scales from lifters learning the barbell to athletes chasing the platform, with the technique work built in from your first session.
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I'm over 40. Is this still for me?
Yes. Dave built his system for the forever athlete, and the programming adjusts load and recovery to where your body is now, not where it was at 25.
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Do I need a full gym?
A barbell, bumper plates, and space to lift cover most of it, with a rack for squats and overhead work. If you have a bar and plates, you have what you need.
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What's the difference between the plans, do I need all of them?
Barbell WOD sharpens your lifts for CrossFit workouts, Cal Strength Club is daily Olympic lifting for the platform, and Ripped & Ready is year-round athletic training. Pick the one that matches where you want your strength to show up.
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How is this different from a generic strength program?
It's Dave's actual methodology, personalized to you and adjusting as you train, with his cues in your ear and 24/365 access to ask him anything, not a template with your name on it.
What people are saying
Trusted by athletes and everyday movers
"Dave completely changed how I approach training. Six months in and I'm seeing results I didn't think were possible."
"The personalized programming is on another level. It actually fits my schedule and my body."
"Having direct access to Dave's coaching at this level used to be impossible. Farren makes it real."
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