Personal Cycling Coaching Built Around Your Goals and Life

Not at all. CTS Coaches work with cyclists pursuing all kinds of goals—from racing and endurance events to cycling trips, faster group rides, improved fitness, or simply becoming a stronger rider.

Your training is built around what success means to you, so you can make meaningful progress without training like someone with completely different goals or circumstances.

You don’t need an elite goal. You need a goal that matters to you.

There’s no set number of hours required. In fact, limited training time is often when good coaching becomes most valuable. In fact, we wrote the book on time-crunched training: The Time-Crunched Cyclist.

Your coach builds training around the time you realistically have and helps prioritize the work that matters most. Instead of trying to fit more training into your life, you can get more purpose and progress from the hours you already have.

Your coach builds and delivers your training through TrainingPeaks: an easy-to-use online platform for planning workouts, tracking training data, and sharing progress with your coach. You complete your workouts and share your feedback, and your coach reviews how you’re responding to training.

That information, combined with regular communication, helps your coach adjust upcoming training as needed. The result is a plan that keeps evolving with your fitness instead of leaving you to follow the same schedule regardless of how your training is actually going.

Training apps and knowledge can give you plenty of information. The harder part is knowing how to interpret it objectively and decide what matters most right now.

A coach adds context, pattern recognition, outside perspective, accountability, and experienced judgment. That can help you avoid unnecessary training mistakes, recognize when something needs to change, and make more confident decisions about when to push, recover, or adjust.

Even many of our most experienced CTS Coaches work with other CTS Coaches themselves for this reason. An objective perspective can reveal patterns you may miss on your own and help you recognize when pushing harder will help or when backing off will lead to better progress.

There are excellent independent coaches. With CTS, however, your individual coach also works within an established coaching organization.

CTS Coaches are selected for their education and experience, receive ongoing development, and have access to organizational support and Athlete Services. For you, that means your coaching relationship isn’t dependent on one person working in isolation. Your coach has additional expertise, standards, and resources behind them to help make better-informed decisions about your training.

CTS also considers your goals, experience, discipline, communication preferences, and coaching needs when helping identify a coach, giving you a better chance of starting with a coach whose expertise and style fit you.

That’s one of the biggest advantages of individualized coaching.

Instead of trying to force a static plan into a week that has changed, your coach can evaluate what happened and determine whether you should adjust, recover, reschedule, or continue as planned.

That helps you stay consistent over the long term without turning one missed workout or difficult week into a lost block of training.

No. Although CTS Coaches are well-versed in using power meters and heart rate monitors to prescribe training, they can still build effective training without either.

Additional data can give your coach more information to work with, but you don’t need a particular device to benefit from personal coaching. Your coach can work with the tools you have and help you focus on the training itself rather than feeling like you need more equipment before you can make progress.

CTS gives you two ways to start. Choose a 12-month coaching term for the best value if you know you want the consistency of coaching for at least a year, or select a month-to-month option if you need more flexibility.

And either way, you can start with confidence: CTS offers a 30-Day Money Back Guarantee. If you don’t love your coaching within the first 30 days, you can cancel and get your money back.

That gives you the flexibility to choose the commitment that fits your needs—and the opportunity to experience coaching before deciding whether it’s right for you.

CTS offers several levels of personal coaching based on how much analysis, communication, and support you want. Plans start at $225 per month, with both 12-month and month-to-month options available.

The right level depends on your goals and how much interaction you want with your coach, which is something we can help you determine during your free consultation.

A cycling coach can be especially valuable when you have a specific goal, have stopped making progress on your own, need to make limited training time count, or want an objective perspective on your training.

Instead of simply giving you more workouts, a coach helps you make better decisions about the training you’re already doing, so your time and effort are directed toward the progress that matters to you.

Many athletes turn to coaching after plateauing or burning out on generic plans or AI-driven training that prioritizes short-term gains over the recovery and progression needed for long-term improvement.