Dawg & Rabbit FitnessThe gap between a generic plan and a truly individualized one is where most athletes stall.
Most programs hand you a spreadsheet — a block of squats, a week of intervals — and never tell you why that volume, that intensity, that day. They don't adjust when you sleep four hours, when life stress spikes, or when your last block already pushed you past the productive edge. Dawg & Rabbit Fitness was built to close that gap with the science that already exists.
Coach-grade training, without the full-time coach.
Elite athletes have coaches who watch every session, read every rep, and adjust the next block before the athlete ever feels overreached. Everyone else gets a PDF — a template built for a person who isn't them.
Dawg & Rabbit Fitness was built to close that gap: to give any serious athlete the kind of individualized, adaptive, science-governed training that used to require a full-time coach. Not a hype machine. Not a one-size-fits-all plan pretending to be personal. A real training system that reads your data, respects your recovery, and pushes you exactly as hard as you can grow from — and no harder. The premise is simple: you shouldn't need a PhD in exercise physiology to train like someone who has one on staff.
Founded out of necessity.
Dawg & Rabbit Fitness was founded by a competitive athlete who tried the programs everyone recommends — CompTrain, Mayhem, The System, HWPO, Misfit Athletics, PRVN, WodScience — and kept running into the same wall. However well-built each one was, none of them addressed an athlete's specific goals or areas of weakness. They treated everyone the same: the same block for the athlete chasing a first muscle-up and the athlete peaking for semifinals, the same week whether you'd slept eight hours or four.
The frustration was simple — the individualized, periodized programming elite competitors take for granted was either locked behind expensive 1:1 coaching or flattened into a one-size-fits-all template. So the goal became the opposite of another opinion online: start from the peer-reviewed literature, build a deterministic periodization-and-load framework on top of it, and let that framework — not gym lore, and not one champion's routine — build a plan around your goals, your weak points, your schedule, and your recovery. The defining commitment is intellectual honesty: every dial the program turns is traceable to a citation, and those citations are shown to the athlete rather than hidden. Dawg & Rabbit Fitness is operated by EOD 1330 LLC (Texas).
Grounded in peer-reviewed sport science.
These are references the program actually uses — not a reading list. Each governs a specific decision the engine makes.
Banister / Coggan PMC
Fitness (CTL), Fatigue (ATL), and Form (TSB) are modeled daily — the same fitness-fatigue framework elite endurance programs run on.
Foster (1998) — monotony & strain
Session-RPE load across seven calendar days flags unproductive load patterns before they become injury.
Seiler (2010) — 80/20 polarized
Zone-2 volume and Zone-4/5 intensity are distributed per the research — no gray-zone junk miles.
Gabbett (2016) — ACWR
Acute:chronic workload ratio bounds how fast load can ramp, keeping training in the safe region of the injury-risk curve.
Helms / Schoenfeld / Zourdos
Evidence-based hypertrophy, strength, and autoregulation — volume, frequency, and RPE targets drawn from the literature.
Issurin — ATR block periodization
Accumulation → Transmutation → Realization blocks, sequenced so each phase focuses on a small number of adaptations at a time.
Mujika / Bosquet — tapering
Volume-cut, intensity-preserved tapers (and overreach-then-taper sequencing) tuned to peak performance on competition day.
Robineau (2016) · Doma & Deakin (2013)
Minimum six-hour inter-session spacing and strength-before-conditioning ordering on two-a-days, from the CNS-recovery research.
Explore individual claims, effect sizes, and citations in the evidence hub.
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