How Online Coaching Works

✓ We test. You complete the right assessment for you, including a MAP ramp test and additional tests where needed. This establishes your true training zones from your own data, not generic estimates.

✓ We plan. Your training programme is built in TrainingPeaks around your available time, your goals and your current fitness.

✓ We adjust. Work, illness, fatigue and travel all affect training. Your plan evolves as you do, with recovery guided by your performance data and how you feel, not a fixed calendar.

✓ We stay in contact. The level of communication depends on your coaching package, but you'll always receive feedback and support from your coach.

✓ Experienced coaching team. Coaching is delivered by Ric, alongside senior associate coaches Neil (Italy) and Charlotte (Canada), supporting cyclists around the world.

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Why CycleCoach?

✓ Coaching riders since 1997. ABCC Senior Coach.

✓ Creator of the MAP ramp test, the protocol used by Zwift, TrainerRoad, Rouvy and MyWhoosh to estimate FTP and set training zones.

✓ Coached Michael Freiberg through key stages of his international development before his 2011 Omnium World Championship title.

✓ Coached James Hayden to two Transcontinental Race victories, the world's toughest self-supported bike race.

✓ Coached World Championship, Commonwealth and Paralympic medal-winning athletes alongside masters racers and committed club riders.

✓ One of the world's largest personal power meter datasets, dating back to 1994.

✓ Published peer-reviewed research in exercise science.

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MAP: The Build

£25 every 4 weeks · or £275 a year · cancel any time

A coach builds your training. Every four weeks. From your numbers.

Not an algorithm and not an off-the-shelf plan. A CycleCoach coach builds your four-week block around your MAP, FTP, available time and goal — using the ramp-test methodology Ric Stern developed and that Zwift, TrainerRoad and others now use. It lands straight in TrainingPeaks. Then, four weeks later, the same coach looks at what you actually did and builds the next one from it.

Start for £25

Bronze | £99 per month - No setup fee

Coach: Neil or Charlotte

A personalised MAP-based training plan with a named coach, monthly data review, plus access to the Bronze WhatsApp group where questions are answered by whichever coach is available.

Structure and coach input without full one-to-one support.

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Silver | £150 per month - £75 setup

Coach: Neil or Charlotte

Full one-to-one coaching: personalised training, strength & conditioning, regular file review and direct contact with your named coach. The best starting point for most riders who want a real coach, not a plan.

3-month min.

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Gold | £250 per month - £125 setup

Coach: Ric, Neil or Charlotte

Higher-support one-to-one coaching. Your named coach provides weekly plan updates, deeper file review, more frequent contact and nutrition macros one week in four — matched to your training load.

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Rainbow | £395 per month - £175 setup

Coach: Ric or Neil

High-touch coaching: your named coach analyses every session, prescribes daily nutrition matched to training load, and provides near-daily access. Limited to 2 athletes at any time.

6-month min.

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Platinum | £899 per month - £175 setup

Coach: Ric only

The most comprehensive coaching CycleCoach offers: unlimited plan changes, unlimited calls, every session analysed, daily nutrition with quarterly dietary reviews, priority access and three in-person training camps per year.

6-month min.

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