About us
Two disciplines.
One crew.
DawgLand started at a set of park bars with four people and a stopwatch. Calisthenics built the strength, running built the engine, and the crew is the reason anybody kept showing up.
Calisthenics
Control your body before you load it
Most people who get hurt in a gym were never strong in the first place — they were just loaded. Bodyweight training does not let you skip that step. You cannot cheat a front lever with better shoes or a heavier belt. You either own the position or you do not.
So we start where you are. Incline push-ups if that is honest. Dead hangs before pull-ups. Tuck work for years before anybody talks about a planche. The progressions are slow on purpose, which is exactly why they hold up.
And it is free. A bar in a park, the ground, and something to hang from is the entire equipment list. That is not a compromise — it is the whole argument.
The skill ladder
Push-up
Full range, hollow body, no sagging hips. This is the entry fee.
Dip
Straight bar or rings. Shoulders under control at the bottom.
Pull-up
Dead hang to chin over bar. No kip, no swing, no excuses.
Muscle-up
The one everyone wants. Earned with false-grip work and transitions.
Front lever
Where straight-arm strength starts. Tuck, advanced tuck, straddle, full.
Planche
The long road. Years, not weeks. We will still be here.
Run club
No one runs alone
Four sessions a week at local parks and on the trails, split into three pace groups so the front of the pack and the back of the pack are both running the right workout. Every group has somebody who has been doing this longer than you.
The rule that matters: nobody gets dropped. Faster runners loop back. If you are last, you are still with the crew when you finish, and somebody is waiting at the end of the parking lot.
Can't make the in-person session? Every run has a written version with paces and cues so you can hit it wherever you are and log it with the group.
Weekly schedule
Tuesday
Tempo
Track or flat loop. Threshold work in three pace groups.
45 min
Thursday
Hills
Repeats on the steepest thing nearby. Strength disguised as cardio.
40 min
Saturday
Long run
Trails and park loops. Conversational pace, nobody dropped.
60–90 min
Sunday
Shakeout
Easy miles plus mobility on the grass. Optional, well attended.
30 min
Who runs this
“I started DawgLand because I quit everything else.”
Three gym memberships. Two apps I paid for and opened four times. A running plan I printed out and lost. I was not lazy — I was alone, and alone is the thing that actually kills consistency.
So I went to the park bars behind my old high school on a Saturday and told three people to meet me there. We did push-ups, we hung from the bar until our hands gave out, and then we ran two miles badly. The next Saturday, five people came. That was the whole business plan.
DawgLand is built on the thing that finally worked for me: training you can do with nothing, on a schedule somebody else is watching. I coach the live sessions myself. If you show up, I will know your name and I will know what your last set looked like.
Founder & head coach
Certified personal trainer · RRCA-certified run coach · Eight years of bodyweight training, still chasing a planche
The Den
What it looks like on a Saturday
Sweaty, loud, and full of people at completely different levels standing around the same set of bars. That is the whole product.
Train free for 7 days
One live coached session, the full workout library, and the community. Card up front so nothing breaks on day 8, but nothing is charged for seven days and we email you on day 5 first.