The Race Winning Blueprint

It’s finally here, the Race Winning Blueprint is launching today. I’m really excited to finally get this off the ground.In season training was always something that I struggled with throughout my career, often failing to find the balance between training enough to ensure progression, and being fresh enough to race to the best of my ability at the weekend. The race winning blueprint offers a solution to this problem, allowing riders to be fresh enough to race hard at the weekend, while still ensuring they are building their fitness as the season goes on.

Time and time again we see riders fall into the same trap every year once racing starts. They take an easy day on Friday, short pre race spin on Saturday, race on Sunday, and then another day off on Monday. That’s one proper session in the space of four days! Riders will repeat this every week and watch their form that they worked so hard for over the winter disappear. This mid-season slump is often attributed to riders overtraining during the winter, however it is actually due to riders under-training in season, by taking too much rest pre and post race. There is a better way, a system that ensures riders are able to be fresh for races, and simultaneously build their form.

As we have mentioned in previous blogs, this is accomplished through the use of front loaded periodisation for riders in season training. This approach is ideal for riders racing every weekend, as it allows them to pack the majority of their high intensity training into one week at the start of each training block, leaving the next few weeks free to be structured around ensuring the rider is fresh for racing!

It may be hard for many to adjust to this new style of training, after all it flies in the face of traditional methods and is a radical departure of what you might have done in the past. However the research is unequivocally supportive of this approach, and it has been demonstrated in multiple studies, and in our work with a large group of clients and top performing athletes. This stuff works, and it works a hell of a lot better than the old school approach to training. Coaching is evolving, and the Race Winning Blueprint is at the forefront of the shift from traditional to optimal.