Phases Cycling

Top step for our rider in his category at the recent Koppenberg 2206 in Boulder, Colorado! 🥇🏆

The Koppenberg is known as the king of the Boulder spring classics. A 5.5 mile road race loop, with 300ft of elevation gain per lap, and includes 2 miles on a packed dirt road. 

A generous 17% sharp ramp thrown in to test the capacity of every rider's match box was a good way of trying to replicate the Belgian cobbled legendary climb.

Top effort Cade!! Well done and congratulations! 💪🔥

Collegiate National Championships up next! 🤛

Ever wonder why one week at a training camp can transform your cycling more than months of regular riding?

When you compress quality training into 5-10 days, remove daily distractions, and focus on nothing but the bike, your body has no choice but to adapt - and adapt dramatically.

Check out our latest blog which explores why training camps work, who benefits most, and how to structure one that actually delivers results.

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At Phases Cycling, we are proud to work with riders from around the world to

to provide training, communication, guidance, mentorship, and most importantly - TIME!  

We do not believe in just the prescription of training. 

We believe in coaching a very low number of athletes (x8) to ensure unlimited communication via video calls, messaging, feedback on training, events and racing, or to just have a chat.   There is no clock watching or time quotas.   

As the 2026 season approaches, we are excited to venture into another year of a shared journey with all our athletes. 

There is just one available coaching place for the 2026 season.   

If you are interested in coaching for the season ahead, and wish to learn more, then please use the Link in Bio to get in contact and let's arrange a free call! 

We believe strongly that athlete and coach work together with a team mindset.  Therefore, an initial free call for each to learn about each other will be a pre-requisite to the place being confirmed.  

At Phases Cycling, we are proud to work with riders from around the world to provide training, communication, guidance, mentorship, and most importantly - TIME!

We do not believe in just the prescription of training.

We believe in coaching a very low number of athletes (x8) to ensure unlimited communication via video calls, messaging, feedback on training, events and racing, or to just have a chat.
There is no clock watching or time restraints.

As the 2026 season approaches, we are excited to venture into another year of a shared journey with all our athletes.

There is just one available coaching place for the 2026 season!

If you are interested in coaching for the season ahead, and wish to learn more, then please use the Link in Bio to get in contact and let's arrange a free call!

We believe strongly that athlete and coach work together with a team mindset. Therefore, an initial free call for each to learn about each other will be a pre-requisite to the place being confirmed.

We look forward to hearing from you!

#2026

RIDER SPOTLIGHT:  WINNER!! 🥇

A massive shout out and congratulations to our rider on crushing his main goal of the season by taking the win at Leadville Trail 100 MTB 2025 M20-29 at the weekend! 

The 100-mile MTB course includes approx 3650 metres of elevation gain, reaching a peak elevation of 3840 metres above sea level at the summit of Columbine Mine!  An epic race earning its rightful name as the ´´Race Across the Sky´´. 

From turbo intervals in the depths of Colorado winter to long days crushing hard intervals on the trails at altitude, and of course putting in all the off-the-bike work of flexibility, mobility, and strength training. We knew everything was on target when kept morale high with reminders of gold star peak performance updates during training and build-up races, which included another win M16-29 in June! 💪

Well done Cade!  Super proud of your hard work and deserved win! 🙏

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 

It has been an immense year for Phases Cycling as we continue to support athletes on and off the bike!  

There is no greater privilege for any coach, than to work alongside athletes on their journey to unlocking their full potential and hitting their goals on the journey. 

We are extremely fortunate to work with athletes from across all disciplines of cycling, age groups and categories from all over the world, including: Europe, Indonesia, United Kingdom, and U.S.A . 

Communication is the fundamental core of our coaching at Phases Cycling, which means that we never feel there is distance from any of our athletes!  

2024 was a year of learning, progression, and team work from each athlete and the journey continues to 2025 with exciting goals already waiting!! 

UCI Europe Tour Stage Races; National Championships; Gravel Racing; Elite Road Racing; Collegiate Nationals in Road,Track & Cross, are just some of the goals that our riders have achieved in the last year!!   

Huge thanks and well done to all our athletes and here's to an epic 2025!! 

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Super proud of rider on 3rd podium place at the U23 Individual Time Trial at National Championships - Indonesia.

Dedication and hard work = great results!! 🥉
Much deserved! Congratulations 🙏

During rest, the heart pumps the lowest amount of blood to supply oxygen to the rest of the body. 

A normal resting heart rate can range from 60 -100 beats per minute (bpm). Highly trained athletes can experience even lower resting heart rates within the ranges of 30 - 40 bpm.

The heart is a muscle, therefore aerobic exercise and progressive training help to promote the strength, size and capacity of the muscle, which in turn means that stroke volume increases and more blood can be transported around the body more efficiently.
The result - lower heart rate. 

Factors that can also have an effect on resting heart rate include: stress, anxiety, hormones, medication, training / physical activity, lack of recovery and onset of sickness. Essentially, resting heart rate is the indicator of stress your body is experiencing. 

It can also be extremely helpful when coaching female athletes, to ensure sufficient adjustment to training load around hormonal cycles, to allow the body necessary recovery and for resting heart rate to stabilise again.

How to track changes in resting heart rate: 
It is important to establish a baseline, which requires recording the results for a 7 - 10 day period and the average will be the baseline measurement. 

When to take a reading: 
The optimal time to record your resting heart rate is as soon as you wake up, without moving or getting up. Essentially open your eyes and record the average for 1 minute. 

How to take a reading: 
Watches with a HR function, or certain phone apps will allow you to use the phone camera as a way to take a reading by pressing your finger on the camera.  Or, simply using a watch/clock and pressing two fingers on the radial artery on the inside of the wrist, counting the beats for 15 seconds then multiplying by 4 for a 1 minute total.

A variation of 1 - 3 bpm to resting heart rate on a given day can be normal depending on your day to day events, or even the quality of your sleep the night before. But when there is an elevation more than this to your baseline for consecutive days, then it is important to assess your training load and the need for recovery. Or perhaps there is the early onset of sickness.

Check out our latest blog for some considerations and insights if training using Functional Threshold Power (FTP)!

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