YOURHPUHEAD COACH
Runs the plan
Periodises your preseason to peak on test day and keeps every coach on the same page.
Big work week, you said. Hard session moves to Saturday.
Preseason 2027 · Invite-only beta
YourHPU gives every amateur player and ref the coaching team the pros get. A Head Coach, Strength, Conditioning, Nutrition and Mindset, briefed on your whole life, not just your last workout.
Read this if you’ve got a Bronco between now and March, and you’re not sure your summer of training is the right training.
Hamstring tight on Sunday, you said. Rep 4 is off the Bronco set today.
STRENGTH COACHFrom the coaching team
There are twenty others lined up beside you, cones out at 20, 40 and 60, and someone you’d rather impress is holding a stopwatch.
You did the work. Or you think you did. You found a Bronco program in November. You asked ChatGPT to adjust it in December, then again in January when work blew up and you missed a week, and both times you had to explain your whole life from scratch. Your watch said you were “productive.” It didn’t know you’d played eighty minutes on Saturday.
Then the whistle goes. Rep one feels fine. By rep three your legs are gone and your turns are getting wider. By rep five you’re just hoping nobody’s writing anything down.
The pros don’t train harder than you. They train with people who know them: a head coach who plans the season backwards from test day, a conditioning coach who paces the running off their numbers, a strength coach who protects the knee that’s been grumbly since 2019, a nutritionist who knows it’s a game week, and someone in their corner for the mental side. And every one of those people knows what the others said.
Amateurs give everything for their sport. You turn up after work, you train in the dark, you pay your subs. You deserve that kind of support too, not a template and a guess.
So we built it. This page explains how it works, and how to join the beta: free until 10 March 2027.
The YourHPU coaching team
The real opponent
It isn’t effort holding your time up. It’s three things that each see one slice of you and none of the rest.
Twelve weeks, written for nobody in particular. It doesn’t know you’ve got a game Saturday, a sick kid on Tuesday, or a test on 7 March, not “some time in February.”
WHAT IT COSTS YOUYou peak at the wrong time, or not at all.
Every new chat starts from zero. You re-type your history, your niggles and your goal, and the advice quietly drifts further from the plan you started with.
WHAT IT COSTS YOUHours re-explaining, and a plan that changes every time you ask.
Great at counting. It sees your heart rate and sleep, but it doesn’t know you’re reffing a semi this weekend or that your calf was tight on Thursday.
WHAT IT COSTS YOUNumbers without decisions. You still have to guess what to do with them.
On the clock
“My Bronco time isn’t dropping, and my plan doesn’t account for my work, my body or my games.”
In your head
“I’m second-guessing everything. I’m sick of re-explaining myself, and scared of turning up to preseason and getting exposed.”
What’s not right
“Amateurs give everything for their sport. They deserve the support the pros get, not a template and a guess.”
Why your time isn’t dropping
To take real time off, five things have to improve together, and every one of them pulls on the same body in the same week.
A program can’t see how they interact. A chatbot forgets. A watch sees half of it. The pros solve this with a team that talks every day. That’s the whole idea behind YourHPU: five specialists, sharing one picture of you.
Hamstring’s tight after Sunday touch.
Swapping RDLs for bridges this week. Nothing heavy through the hamstring till it settles.
Saw that. Rep 4 is off Wednesday’s Bronco set, and we drill turns at 80% instead.
Huge work week. Slept about five hours.
Hard session moves to Saturday morning. Thursday becomes an easy 30 minutes. The block still lands on 7 March.
Feeling flat. Can’t be bothered tonight.
Flat weeks happen. Tonight, just commit to the first ten minutes. Remember, on nights like this you’ve told us you finished it.
You’ve got the hard session tomorrow now, not a game. Carbs up tonight, and a proper breakfast before you go.
Hamstring feels normal again.
Good. RDLs back next week at lighter load.
Week done. Two sessions moved, nothing lost. You said it once, on Monday.
Your coaching team
The pros don’t get one coach. They get a staff who talk to each other. Now you do too.
HEAD COACH
Periodises your preseason to peak on test day and keeps every coach on the same page.
Big work week, you said. Hard session moves to Saturday.
CONDITIONING
Intervals, shuttles and turns paced off your own numbers, not a template.
Your turns are leaking time. Today we drill the 60m turn.
STRENGTH
Gym work that fits around your running and protects the knocks you’ve already got.
Knee still grumpy? Swapping lunges for split squats.
NUTRITION
Fuel for the hard sessions and the recovery after them, matched to what your goal needs that week.
Big Bronco set tomorrow. Carbs up tonight, protein straight after.
MINDSET
Nerves, flat weeks and test-day pressure. Keeps you on the plan when motivation runs out.
Rep four is where it gets hard. We’ve rehearsed that moment.
How it works
A five-minute onboarding covers your current Bronco, test date, training history, work and family load, and old knocks. You never re-explain.
Ten minutes later, your Head Coach, Strength, Conditioning, Nutrition and Mindset coaches have built one periodised plan to peak on test day, waiting in your dashboard.
Log sessions and message your coaches right in the app. Flag a bad week or a niggle, and the whole team adjusts together.
Try it now
This is the maths your Head Coach starts with. Put in your numbers and see exactly what your summer has to deliver.
| TARGET CHECKPOINTS · EVEN PACING |
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| SHUTTLE SPLITS PER REP ESTIMATE |
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Assumes about 0.9s lost per turn.
| MAS TRAINING-PACE GUIDE STARTING GUIDE |
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Bronco-to-MAS formulas are a practical field estimate, not a lab test. Use them to set a first session, then let real sessions correct them.
That’s the gap. Closing it, around your work, your body and your games, is what your coaching team does.
BUILD MY PLAN FROM THESE NUMBERS
5:17 → 4:30. 47 seconds. March 7.
Built in the chase
I built YourHPU because I’m the athlete it’s for. Every summer I’d fly out of the blocks, get injured, and turn up to the test undercooked. In between, it was YouTube videos, physio consults and chatbot queries, endlessly re-explaining myself to people and tools that never saw the whole picture.
Who this is for
Players
Referees
Touch and club
Don’t spend another summer guessing, only to get found out on the first Bronco. Or worse, break down in week three and watch the season from the sideline.
Come test day
The beta
Head Coach, Conditioning, Strength, Nutrition and Mindset, working to one plan built backwards from your test date. Free for beta testers until 10 March 2027, with an invite code.
No card, no payment. Your whole preseason on us.
Use the code from your invite when you sign up.
We only use it to build your plan. Delete it anytime.
Questions
No. A general chatbot forgets you between conversations and has no plan it’s working toward. Your YourHPU coaches share one record of you, work backwards from your test date, and check each other’s prescriptions. You tell us once, and the whole team runs with it.
No. If you have one, share your numbers and the team will use them. If you don’t, logging how sessions felt is enough to adjust your plan.
Yes. Rory played before he picked up the whistle. Your plan is built around your appointments and grading, not a team’s game schedule.
Your plan is built around your body, including the knocks you’ve already got. Strength work protects you, and the team pulls load back when you flag a niggle. Staying on the park is part of the goal, at any age.
Keeps you training when motivation dips, helps you handle test-day nerves, and rehearses the hard reps before you run them. It’s performance coaching, not therapy; if something bigger is going on, it’ll point you to real support.
We adjust around it and tell you when it’s time to see a physio. We’re a coaching team, not medical care.
Three or more sessions a week, built around your work and family load. Checking in takes less than a minute: log the session, flag anything that’s off, and your team handles the rest.
Anyone with an invite code. Use it on the sign-up page. No code? Email rory@yourhpu.com.
The beta ends. We’ll email you 30 days and 7 days before. Choose a plan to keep your team, or don’t: your plan, history and data stay, read-only. Nothing is charged unless you choose a plan.
Your team moves you onto an in-season plan that keeps your engine up around games and appointments. When you’re ready, pick your next goal and they’ll plan backwards from that.
Start your preseason
Your coaching team, free for beta testers until 10 March 2027.
Based on your calculator numbers. The test date doesn’t move.
P.S. If you’ve read this far, you already know whether your summer’s plan is the right one. If it isn’t, start today. The beta is free, you’re set up in five minutes, and you only have to tell us once.
— Rory
Sign up with the code from your invite. Then tell your coaches about your season and they build your plan.
SIGN UP WITH MY CODEAlready joined? Sign in. No code? Email rory@yourhpu.com. You need to be 18 or over.