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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.
Power for what you actually do.
Training from an NFL veteran with a 100-plus game career who now trains elite military operators and pros. Personalized to you, in your ear, every session.
How Farren works
Available on iOS
Meet John Welbourn
John Welbourn started over 100 NFL games across a decade in the league, then spent the years since training elite military operators and pros across the biggest leagues in sport. His system starts from one belief: power is the foundation everything else gets built on.
Hips that fire the moment you need them. A base that doesn't buckle under load, on the field or off it. Strength you can express at speed, because slow strength doesn't help when life moves fast. John's programs are built for one thing: power you can actually use.
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.
Be the hammer.
John's signature plans
Four plans built on the same foundation of usable power, personalized to your sport, your job, and your life.
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Bedrock Build the foundation everything else sits on, a short list of movements on a linear progression creating strength that holds through layoffs.
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Jacked Street Get bigger, stronger, and more physically imposing across six days of squats, deadlifts, presses, and rows with volume that leaves nothing on the table.
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Grindstone Keep strength, speed, and muscle in weeks that don't have room for them, with mandatory days plus optional ones you take when the schedule allows.
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Dragon Slayer Train three mandatory sessions and three flow rolls built to sit alongside your mat time, so you hit harder, pressure longer, and never gas.
Access to John, 24/7
Ask him anything, any hour. How to train around a banged-up shoulder. What to do the week of a competition, a selection, or a season opener. How to keep power as the years stack up. He remembers what you told him last time and builds on it. The kind of access that used to be reserved for pro locker rooms.
Who should train with John?
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Still competing
There's a season, a league, a bracket with your name in it. Train power the way the pros John works with train it.
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Built for the job
Your work is physical and the stakes are real. Build the strength and durability the job demands.
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Strong for life
You want to be the person who moves the couch, wins the backyard game, and never asks for help with the cooler.
Start with John, 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 John's signature plans with full audio coaching
- HD video demos for every movement
- 24/365 access to John, 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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I never played football. Is this for me?
Yes. The system was forged in the NFL, but power is the most transferable quality in training. It shows up in every sport you play and most days you live.
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I'm not trying to get huge. Will this bulk me up?
John trains power, not puffiness. Expect to get stronger and faster, with size as an option you control, not a side effect you can't.
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Do I need a barbell and a full gym?
Farren will help you choose one of John's plans that fit the equipment you have access to. The plans will then adapt to that equipment and swap out any movements that don't fit.
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What's the difference between the plans, do I need all of them?
Bedrock builds the foundation, Jacked Street builds the size and strength on top of it, Grindstone protects both when life gets demanding, and Dragon Slayer points it all at the mat. Start where you are.
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How is this different from a generic strength program?
It's John'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 spreadsheet with a logo.
What people are saying
Trusted by athletes and everyday movers
"John 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 John's coaching at this level used to be impossible. Farren makes it real."
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