Athletic development, built as software
From first season to weekend warrior.
Deskbound Athlete builds coach-designed training software for every stage of play: QuietFeet for young athletes, in a pilot season now, and Deskbound Athlete for adults who sit all day and still play hard.
- Designed by a certified personal trainer
- Safety rules enforced in code
- Privacy-first by design
Where do you fit?
- I'm a parentA short, twice-a-week plan you can run at home, built around your child's season.See QuietFeet
- I coach a youth teamBodyweight team sessions, workout cards for teams of 10 to 25.For coaches
- I sit all day and still playTraining for the weekend game, from a desk-bound week.Deskbound Athlete for adults
- I'm an investor or partnerOne engine, two products, and a pilot season under way.For investors
Kids get plenty of practice. Few are taught to move.
Practice teaches the sport. It rarely has time to build the athlete underneath it: the strength, balance, landing control, and change of direction every sport asks for.
Only about 1 in 5
U.S. kids ages 6–17 get the 60 minutes of daily activity the guidelines call for.
Only about 1 in 4
youth coaches had recent training in general safety in 2024 — down from about 1 in 3 in 2019.
About a third fewer injuries, in the programs studied
Across 15 trials with more than 21,000 children and teens in sport and PE, structured warm-up programs were linked with an injury rate about a third lower — and lower still when they were used consistently.
QuietFeet teaches the same building blocks — strength, balance, landing control, and change of direction — in two short sessions a week, written for the grown-up who runs them.
QuietFeet itself has not been tested in a trial; the research describes programs built on the same building blocks.
QuietFeet · ages 10–18 · in a pilot season now
Athletic development your kid will actually do.
QuietFeet turns established youth athletic-development principles into a plan for your child: a starting assessment, a block built around the season, and two short sessions a week — with every step up checked against written criteria and approved by you.
A real starting point
A two-day assessment you run yourself: a movement screen and simple tests of jumping, landing, sprinting, pushing, and pulling. No special equipment.
A plan that fits the season
Preseason, in-season, and the weeks between, built around practices and games. A heavy week takes a lighter plan.
About 30 minutes, twice a week
Warm-up, power, speed, strength, and a game, in that order, while your athlete is fresh — never more than 45 minutes.
A readiness check first
A 1-to-5 check before every session scales the work down on tired days.
Progress you approve
Every exercise has written criteria for moving up. Meeting them opens your checklist, never an automatic jump.
Three versions of every page
Coach detail, plain-language parent guidance, and kid-friendly cues and challenges.
Why “QuietFeet”?
Listen to a skilled athlete land: you barely hear it. Quiet feet mean control — knees over toes, weight balanced, force absorbed. It is the first skill QuietFeet teaches and the one it checks before anything gets harder.
One plan, three voices
Week 2, Wednesday — Workout A
Strength (12–15 min).
Bodyweight squat
The base pattern of the strength block: hips and knees bend together, heels down, spine braced and neutral, knees tracking over the feet.
Prescription. 2 × 10–15 reps; rest 60 s
Cues: Brace the trunk before you bend; ribs down.
Faults: Knees collapse inward at the bottom or on the way up.
Bodyweight reverse lunge
Before moving on (your checklist; you decide):
- 12 good reps on each leg, twice in a row.
- Quiet, balanced steps and the front knee tracking.
- No pain. Then you decide, and the coach adds a light weight.
Stop signs: Knee or hip pain. Wobbling on most steps: shorten the step, touch a wall, and tell the coach.
Sneaky Step Back
Step back quietly.
Step back so quietly nobody hears it, kneel like a knight, and stand up tall. Can every step be silent?
Ask yourself: Was every step back quiet, and did I stand tall?
The rule: If it hurts, stop and tell your grown-up. That's the rule, not a fail.
- What the pilot uses today: printable session cards, parent guides, and a progress tracker.
- Coming in the app: the plan on your phone, the readiness check, and progress over the season.
Built on general athletic development for any sport, with sport-specific emphasis. Hockey first (in a pilot season now); soccer, basketball, baseball and softball, volleyball, football, running, biking, hiking, and skiing / snowboarding are planned.
Ages 10 to 18.
Bodyweight first. A band, a bench, or a pull-up bar help when you have them; nothing is assumed.
Four steps, one season at a time.
Assess
Two short sessions show where your athlete starts. You score in real time with a simple guide.
Plan
You get a block built around the season, the practices, and the games.
Train
Two short sessions a week, about 30 minutes each, guided by cards your athlete can read.
Progress
Steps up are earned against written criteria, confirmed by you, and checked again at the next block's retest.
Age-appropriate by design.
Youth strength training is safe and beneficial when it is supervised and technique-first — the guidance of the American Academy of Pediatrics' 2020 clinical report, reaffirmed in 2024. QuietFeet builds those conditions into the plan itself.
Age-appropriate limits
No max-out testing and no Olympic lifts. Jump intensity, sprint distance, and session length stay inside youth limits.
Checked in code
21 youth safety rules check every exercise, session, and program they govern before it is published.
You're in charge
A parent or responsible adult supervises every session and approves every step up.
Pain means stop
Every page says it, your athlete's included:
“If it hurts, stop and tell your grown-up. That's the rule, not a fail.”
Not medical advice
“Not medical advice. QuietFeet does not diagnose or treat any condition. Pain means stop, modify, and refer to a qualified clinician when indicated.”
Your child's data stays theirs.
- Children's data is kept apart from our adult product — separate storage, separate accounts.
- No ads, no data sales, no AI training on your family's data, and no tracking scripts — not even on this page.
- In the app, nothing about a child is collected before a parent's verifiable consent, and a child signs in with a nickname, never a real name.
These are commitments for the app now in development; its privacy notice will say exactly how at launch.
Dryland that respects the practice load.
QuietFeet's team sessions run with bodyweight and cones, in stations, for teams of 10 to 25 and one coach. Practices and games count toward the week, so the plan never piles on. Every session prints on a single card you can hold at the rink or the field.
- Team sessions with simple substitutions
- Whistle-start speed waves and partner pairs
- Printable one-sheet session cards
- The same safety rules as the home plan
Deskbound Athlete · adults · in design
Sit all week. Play all weekend. Train for both.
Deskbound Athlete is training for adults past high school who spend their days at a desk and their weekends on a court, a field, a trail, or the ice: short sessions that rebuild mobility, strength, and speed for the game you love.
Only about 1 in 4
U.S. adults gets enough aerobic and muscle-strengthening activity, and adults report sitting about six hours a day on average.
— CDC National Health Interview Survey via Healthy People 2030, 2024; JAMA, 2025
In design Join the list and tell us your sport — early members shape what we build first.
Built by a certified trainer.
Tim Olson — Founder
ACE Certified Personal Trainer · ACE Youth Fitness Specialist · ACE Sports Conditioning Specialist
I built QuietFeet after watching young athletes get hours of sport practice and almost no training in how to move — how to land, cut, accelerate, and build strength with good technique. As a certified trainer, a parent and a youth coach, I wanted a program I'd trust with any young athlete, so I wrote it, put the safety rules in code, and started it in a pilot season. The adult side of Deskbound Athlete comes from the other half of my life: a desk job and a weekend game.
One engine. Two products. A lifetime of athletes.
Most training content is written once, as prose, for one reader. We author it as structured data — exercises, sessions, programs, and assessments — validated against safety rules in code and rendered for each reader (coach, parent, kid) and each sport. QuietFeet proves the engine with youth athletes; Deskbound Athlete extends it to the adults those athletes become.
Why now
Sports families spend about $1,016 a year on one child's main sport, up 46% in five years (Aspen Institute, 2024) — and most sports parents name burnout (78%) and lasting injuries (77%) among youth sports' drawbacks (AP/Ipsos, 2026). Parents already pay for sport; few are offered the athletic training underneath it.
Stage
Pre-revenue. QuietFeet is in a pilot season; its app is in development. Deskbound Athlete for adults is in design.
Proof points
- 51 exercises across 16 movement categories, each written for coach, parent, and kid
- 21 youth safety rules enforced in code, each on the exercises, sessions, or programs it governs
- An assessment battery and complete program blocks: preseason, bridge, in-season, and team
- Sport profiles that compile one shared base into sport-specific programs — hockey first, 9 more sports planned
Business model
Subscriptions with a free four-week trial: for QuietFeet, a Family plan and a Team plan for coaches; for Deskbound Athlete for adults, an Athlete plan.
Roadmap
- Now — the pilot season.
- Next — QuietFeet early access and more sports.
- Then — Deskbound Athlete for adults.
Questions and answers
Who is QuietFeet for?
Athletes ages 10 to 18, with a parent or a youth coach running each session.
Which sports does it cover?
Hockey first, in a pilot season now. The training is general athletic development with sport-specific emphasis; soccer, basketball, baseball and softball, volleyball, football, running, biking, hiking, and skiing / snowboarding are planned.
How much time does it take?
Two sessions a week of about 30 minutes — 25 to 30 in season, a little longer in some preseason weeks, never more than 45.
What equipment do we need?
None to start. Bodyweight comes first; a band, a bench, or a pull-up bar help if you have them.
Is strength training safe for kids?
Supervised, age-appropriate strength training with good technique is recognized as safe and beneficial in the American Academy of Pediatrics' 2020 clinical report. QuietFeet adds written progression criteria, a parent's approval for every step, and no max-out testing.
My child already has practice. Won't this be too much?
Practices and games count toward the week. On a heavy week the plan scales down, and the readiness check scales any day down.
Is this physical therapy or medical advice?
No. QuietFeet is athletic-development programming. “If it hurts, stop and tell your grown-up. That's the rule, not a fail. Sharp pain, joint pain, or pain that changes how your child moves means stop for today and ask a clinician if it does not settle.”
What will it cost?
Pricing is announced at early access. Every family starts free: set up the season and run the first assessment, then try the Family plan free for four weeks.
When can we start?
Early-access invitations go to the list first. Join, and we'll email you.
What happens to my email?
We use it to email you about early access and news of the products you chose, and we count sign-ups only in totals. We never sell it or share it for advertising. You can unsubscribe or ask us to delete it any time. See the Privacy Notice.
Can coaches use it with a team?
Yes. Team sessions use bodyweight and cones, in stations, for teams of 10 to 25.
I'm an adult. What's Deskbound Athlete for adults?
Training for adults who sit all day and still play hard. It's in design — join the list and tell us your sport.
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