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The Athlete Blueprint writes an individual training programme for your young athlete and coaches them through it. Samuel McIntyre is the coach. He is not a doctor or a physiotherapist, and nothing here is medical treatment.

We collect what the programme is written from: how they move, what they can train with, what their week looks like, how they slept, and anything that is sore or painful. That is health information, and it is held under Australian privacy law.

If something they report suggests an injury, we withhold the exercise and tell them to see a physiotherapist. We do not make it lighter and carry on.

You can ask for everything we hold about them, or ask us to delete the account, at any time and without giving a reason.

Every day the athlete is asked three quick questions and one written one. What they write is saved, dated, and kept as their journal.

Samuel reads it. That is the point of it rather than a catch — a coach who has read what they wrote on Tuesday coaches them better on Wednesday. Nobody else sees it. It is never sold, never public, and never shown to other members.

If they write something that suggests they are not safe or not okay, Samuel may contact you about it. That is a promise rather than a warning: it is what should happen.

Your athlete is told all of this in their own words, on their own screen, and has to tick to say they understand before they write anything.

The programme starts with a movement screen: about fifteen short clips of your athlete squatting, standing on one leg, hinging, doing push-ups, reaching overhead, stepping down off something knee height, and running. They film it themselves, on their own phone, in shorts and a t-shirt. Later they may film a single lift so it can be checked before they load it up.

Two of the clips ask for effort: a run at about 85% and a run that stops sharply. They are told in writing to build up to those, and to skip anything that hurts and tell us instead. Nothing else in the screen depends on them.

Samuel watches the clips and writes an assessment. Nobody else watches them.

The clips are deleted once the assessment is written, usually within a week. We keep the writing, not the video. It is never used for marketing, never posted, and never shown to anybody else without asking you first.

Every time Samuel opens anything belonging to an under-18 — a clip, a journal entry, a check-in — it is logged with his name and the time.