The Baie Sukkel Coach

Happy World Bicycle Day - 03/06/2025
Riding a bicycle shouldn’t be hard; the Baie Sukkel Coach can help make it easier for you.

Riding your bike should be fun; training should be simplistic. The Baie Sukkel Coach offers customised training plans and guidance, for time-constrained cyclists, to help you get faster/fitter, and have more fun on your rides.

This video from is quite good in explaining what training zones/ranges are all about. It’s a tool for your coach to ensure that you are training at the right level he/she has planned for you.

The simplest of them all is the 3-zone model, with correlation to HR, RPE and breathing, is about the best you can get without spending time in the lab. 5, 6 and 7 might be more specific the closer you get to your specific event.

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No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.

The Annual Training Plan is the tool used to layout a number processes to give a Birds Eye view of the cyclist’s “plan” for the year. It’s usually displayed in weekly totals, showing duration, training load for planned and actual. Testing, training focus areas, events and compliance to the plan can be viewed here. Each coach has their own way to plan for their athletes, some online and some in Excel (like the BaieSukkel Coach does).

Each person is unique, and so too is training and these plans.

During the planning phase, you would plan to do specific type of training. Known as , this is grouping blocks of specific training into smaller blocks aimed at specific focus on training. A macrocycle is a few mesocycles grouped together. A mesocycle (3/4 weeks) is a block of microcycles. A microcycle (7 days) is a block of sessions. And finally a session is the workout you do on a specific day.

Riding your bike shouldn’t be a struggle. Let me, The Baie Sukkel (Bicycle) Coach help you make it less of a struggle, and more fun.

One of the first steps when setting up a training plan, or even an individual session is a goal. The best way to ensure that it’s successful, it to use the SMARTer methodology, i.e. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound and then evaluated (to adjust the next session) and rewarded after achieving it.

A really good podcast, feat. Steve Neal (one of a few “unofficial” coaching mentors of The BaieSukkel Coach). In 2023, your coach will be able to offer testing and training to get you more Metobolically Efficient.

Steve Neal has served as the Ontario provincial mountain bike coach and has led many cyclists to national titles. In this episode we will discuss how working with a personal coach can help you reach your potential. We’ll also learn why FTP might not be the best metric for predicting performance. This episode is full of excellent advice on how to become a faster cyclist in all disciplines. If you ride on the pavement or on the dirt, this episode is for you! By listening to the advice in this episode you can add 100 watts to your "Fat Max" wattage.

‎FASTER Cycling: Athletic Potential & FatMax vs FTP For Cyclists on Apple Podcasts ‎Show FASTER Cycling, Ep Athletic Potential & FatMax vs FTP For Cyclists - 2 Jun 2019