There’s lots of companies and individuals offering coaching and training. You may be asking yourself:

‘Why should I start to work with AchievePTC?’

Well, that’s a good question. The best answer is to share the Achieve philosophy (what makes us different), a few testimonials from Achieve athletes and specifics on what we do to create a community of individuals who value their health, strive to do their best and like to have fun. If this fits with what you are looking for then we would love to have you as an AchievePTC athlete.

Our Philosophy

There are a number of different training techniques to improve cycling fitness. Achieve coaches and athletes are busy balancing family life, work and athletic goals. Following a fair amount of research and practice, Achieve found one training style to be most effective; block training. And it’s not only AchievePTC that prefers this style. There are many weekend warriors and elite athletes with similar time constraints and goals that use block training to achieve very high levels of success.

The ability to produce and maintain a high power output is arguably the most important physiological aspect of an endurance cyclists success. This will be referred to as maximum sustainable power output (MSPO). All other things being equal, the rider with the highest power output between point A and B will be the fastest, simply because maintaining a higher power output translates into greater speed.

Block training consists of very hard workouts for two to three consecutive days, followed by an equal amount of recovery. This facilitates physiological adaptations that leads to improved performance. The same types of workouts are performed on consecutive days of the training block to increase the training stress on the body. The theory behind block training is that overloading a single system and then allowing adequate rest causes the system to super compensate more than with traditional training strategies. AchievePTC has found block training to be a very effective way to increase MSPO.

Communication between athlete and coach is of utmost importance. Following a well designed program balanced with effective recovery will result in improved fitness. But there are so many other factors to achieving cycling goals than simply improved fitness. And these factors alone can not be understood without effective communication; just ask any Achieve athletes. Therefore, each Achieve athlete has a scheduled check-in call with their coach, in addition to email, text messaging and other forms of communication. We are passionate about helping our athletes achieve their goals and use these communication tools to hold our athletes accountable.