Steady On
For POTS & dysautonomia

Your heart races when you stand.
There's a programme for that.

Steady On is a gentle, structured 12-week reconditioning programme built on published research protocols, with a private community that understands why a shower can wipe out an afternoon. Worth your salt.

5yrs 11maverage wait for a diagnosis
59%told it was “all in your head”
69%diagnosed with anxiety instead
Why that matters ↓
POTSOrthostatic intoleranceVasovagal syncopePost-viral onsetSuspected & undiagnosedhEDS & MCAS overlap
The whole idea, in one line. Twelve weeks of graduated, recumbent-first training. Never pushing into a crash, until standing steady stops being the day's hardest work.
Before anything else

You are not imagining it.

In a survey of over 700 people with POTS, this is what getting diagnosed actually looked like:

5yrs 11mAverage wait between first symptoms and a diagnosis
59%Were told by a doctor it was “all in your head”
69%Were diagnosed with an anxiety disorder instead
You're always fighting. — the actual title of a peer-reviewed study on living with POTS

Steady On starts from the assumption that you have been through this, and that you were right all along.

53%

In the foundational research trial behind this approach, over half of participants no longer met the diagnostic criteria for POTS after three months of graduated exercise training, alongside gains in blood volume and cardiac capacity.

Based on the published Levine/CHOP exercise protocols for POTS. Steady On adapts this research into a paced, supportive format, it's education, not medical care, and results vary. Always work with your doctor.

The 12-Week Reset

Start horizontal. Finish upright.

The counterintuitive science: for POTS, exercise only works when it starts lying down. Every session tells you what to do, how long for and how hard it should feel, then asks how it went. Weeks unlock one at a time, because going too fast is how reconditioning fails. Live in the app now.

01

Weeks 1–4 · Horizontal

Recumbent bike, rowing or swimming, plus floor-based strength. Build your engine without triggering the tachycardia that upright exercise brings.

02

Weeks 5–8 · Transition

Longer sessions, and the first carefully-dosed semi-upright work. A flare mode lets you repeat any week without guilt, repeating is part of the protocol, not failure.

03

Weeks 9–12 · Upright

Elliptical, walking, standing strength, and a final lean-test to measure exactly how far you've come, in numbers you can show your doctor.

Built different

Designed for bodies that hate standing up.

Fitness apps assume a body that cooperates. Steady On assumes brain fog, flare days, heat intolerance and a heart that overreacts, and designs for them.

Flare mode, not streaks

Repeat a week with one tap. Nothing resets, nothing shames you. The programme bends so you don't break.

Worth Your Salt. The community

A private, properly-moderated members' space: newly diagnosed, week-by-week programme threads, doctors & meds, and wins worth celebrating.

A rescue page for bad moments

One tap to evidence-based counter-manoeuvres, leg-crossing, fist pumps, cooling, breathing. That work in the moment. Offline, always.

Tracking your doctor will love

Heart rate by position, lying, sitting, standing, with time, tags and notes. A guided NASA Lean Test. Charts made for appointments.

Syncs with your watch

Apple Health and Health Connect (Samsung, Fitbit, Garmin) capture your heart rate through the day, so your trends are not built only from the moments you felt bad enough to log. Arriving with the phone apps, Android first.

Proof it is working

A symptom burden score from your own logs, next to your standing heart rate and lean-test change, baselined on the month before you started. It reports a worse month as plainly as a better one.

Honest about gear

Community-tested compression, electrolytes and equipment, clearly labelled when links are affiliate, never pretending to be medical advice.

Fair questions

Asked and answered.

Is this medical advice?
No. Steady On is an educational programme and self-tracking toolkit built on published research. It doesn't diagnose, treat, or replace your medical team. We ask every member to confirm their doctor knows they're starting an exercise programme, and the app is designed to complement clinical care, not compete with it.
What if exercise has crashed me before?
You're exactly who this is designed for. Most exercise attempts fail for POTS bodies because they start upright and progress too fast. This programme starts lying down, progresses on your timeline, and treats repeating a week as a feature. The flare mode exists because pushing through is how people end up worse.
Do I need equipment?
Ideally access to a recumbent bike, rowing machine, or pool for the early weeks. Many members use a gym day-pass, a second-hand recumbent bike, or swimming. A heart-rate monitor (any basic sports watch) genuinely helps. We'll publish budget options for everything before launch.
When does it launch, and what will it cost?
The tracking tools, the rescue page, the learning library and the full 12-Week Reset are live now, free, for early users. Still to come: the Worth Your Salt community, the phone apps with watch sync, and paid membership. Founding-member pricing will be meaningfully lower than the standard subscription, and everyone on the waitlist hears first.
Who's behind this?
Steady On is being built independently and openly, with its content grounded in the published Levine/CHOP research protocols, and shaped by the POTS community it serves. Clinical review is part of the roadmap before the programme launches, we'd rather ship carefully than fast.
Free, and available today

The programme and the tracking are already live.

You don't have to wait. Create a free account and you get the full 12-Week Reset, heart rate by position, fluids, salt and symptoms, the guided lean test, weather and cycle tracking, the rescue page, a private link for a parent or partner, and a doctor report you can print. Plus the honest answer to whether any of it is helping. No card, no trial.

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Founding membership

Stop white-knuckling it.
Start steady.

First access, founding pricing, and a say in what gets built. That's the deal.