Cycling Success System

Accelerate uphill like never before, eliminate aches and pains, finish rides without feeling sore so you can ride stronger and farther with more energy day after day.


Created exclusively for (peri)menopausal athletes and women cyclists over 40, using our unique frameworks to organize your strength training, cycling training, fueling and recovery, without any fluff.

Struggling to get a good nights sleep? Trying to ride stronger but flailing because your symptoms like insomnia, extreme fatigue, hot flashes, weight gain, and muscle loss leave you without any mojo?

Let me guess, because of menopausal symptoms, you’ve noticed the extra pounds lining your midsection and thighs. 

So you resort to what’s always worked before: dieting + riding more— forcing yourself to underfuel AND ride longer miles in the saddle.

Only this time it’s backfired and instead you’ve gained MORE weight despite eating less.

And you’re left feeling extremely exhausted – where you’re too tired to ride or even enjoy cycling. 

You’re tired but wired when you try to sleep, and dealing with insomnia half the night. 

That deep exhaustion steals from you: your enjoyment of cycling,the fun from eating delicious foods, fun of traveling the world, steals the joys out of your life.  

It can destroy your intimate relationships and decimate your self esteem. It even isolates you from your fun-loving cycling friends, and excludes you from adrenaline filled cycling adventures.

Perhaps frustrated and downright pissed off that you’ve “done everything right” and yet your body is letting you down. 

You might even feel like giving up.  


What If You Could Keep Getting Stronger, Climbing Faster, and Riding Farther and…

Stop trying harder, spinning in circles and getting nowhere. Instead, be open to the idea that there is a better way, a new way for women over 40, 50, 60, 70+ to achieve better results

Stop starving to try and shift your menopause body composition changes and instead, get faster, ride stronger AND go farther with MORE energy.

Marissa with hand on her hip

Hi.
I’m Marissa Axell and CEO and Founder of AXN Fitness and Coaching, LLC, a cycling coach and personal trainer who coaches her athletes 100% online.

Five years ago, I started experiencing extreme perimenopausal fatigue, the kind that left me feeling like I need to glue my eyelids open.


I’ve always been the kind of person who is wide awake after one cup of coffee, but this was different since the fatigue was damaging my cycling training, my sleep, my career — basically my entire life.


I had heard of perimenopause because I read in “Roar” by Selene Yeager and Dr. Stacy Sims that women might experience deep fatigue and it’s associated with perimenopause and there was something I could do about it! 


When another friend came to me with the exact same problem… I realized that NONE OF US 30 and 40-something women athletes KNOW SQUAT ABOUT THIS PERIMENOPAUSE SHIT.

I jumped at the chance to take what I'd learned and put it into practice the very thing we specialize in...

✨ Helping you organize your cycling training into your life,

✨ Make sense of how to get the most from your body and mind

✨ Building beliefs and excitement around our style of results-focused training

✨ Building trust (and badass results) with our athletes

Because nobody was talking about why or how we get stronger, nor do any of those traditional programs focus on balancing 3 different training modes.


I could've wasted years trying to help women like me using old, traditional, male-focused training programs-- like putting a square peg in a round hole and expecting it to fit.

And that's how the Badass Cycling Framework came about.

Since 2020 I’ve coached over 65 peri-post menopausal athletes aged 40-80 to slay their cycling goals and embark on their dreams by getting stronger to ride longer and faster.

Introducing…

The Cycling Success System

This 12-week hi-touch cycling training system, created exclusively for (peri)menopausal athletes, organizes and steps you through training, fueling, and recovery— everything you need, showing you exactly what to do and how easily success can fit into your everyday life.

  • I see way too many over-40 women cyclists struggling with why her usual cycling training stopped working for her.

    She’s getting slower, feels weaker on the hills, starting to fall behind despite trying harder to eat right and train hard to regain her original athletic body.

    Did you know, the real problem is that peri-postmenopausal athletes are affected by shifting estrogen and progesterone hormones, which affects everything in life, including how you exercise, sweat, break down food for energy, and rebuild your strength.

    The systems have changed, but we can too. Because, boo, as peri-post menopausal athletes, we’re definitely not giving up riding badass adventures, races, events, or trips.

    But now that the body has changed, you deserve to know what you can change to regain your cycling speed, and get stronger. That’s why we’re going deeper than just riding around.

    The CSS is the only program that actually works for women cyclists over 40.

    Stop being left behind, follow our step-by-step cycling coaching to nail your big cycling thing.

    Using our unique frameworks, we coach women cyclists over 40 and organize all your cycling training, fueling, and recovery, showing them step-by-step exactly what to do and how to do it, to achieve her huge cycling goals.

    Each athlete arrives at her goal/event as fit, healthy and strong as possible, where she’s riding to a new PR, whether it’s faster speed, longer distance, or day after day cycling trips.

    After the program ends, she still knows exactly what she needs for success, her coach helped her develop a repeatable and proven program she can repeat forever, and includes the fueling and recovery that works for her at the right time to build muscle, & stay strong.

    All we want is for you to love cycling, have a specific goal or event, and have followed a program before.

  • Upon registration, you will select a plan specifically created to meet your goal, whether it’s within cycling or triathlon-specific disciplines. You can start onboarding immediately, and schedule your onboard meeting to customize training for you and meet your coach.

    Each day you’ll know exactly what to do, using your calendar, each day’s sessions arrive in your inbox and in your training peaks app.

    You have all 12 weeks to watch video modules teaching you…exactly what, how, and why we train differently for success.

    • How to find your specific fueling needs, & create a menu with the right foods at the right time.

    • How to recover better after each training session is crucial to feeling more energetic the following days.

    • Master better sleep, and focus on stress relief.

    • Face to face LIVE coaching calls.

    • Cycling Training Program - 12 weeks of scheduled cycling, strength training, and recovery complete with training demonstrations

    • Training Peaks Premium Account - where your training is delivered to you, including a convenient app

    • Before and After Benchmarks to customize your program

    • Private, Members-only Facebook Group

    • Daily Email Workout Reminders You’ll always know exactly what to do and when to do it.

    • Members-Only Vault with 3+ Video Modules packed with training, fueling, and recovery insights you can implement immediately

    • Live Group Coaching Calls with immediate feedback from coaches

    • Unparalleled Support: To me, support is EVERYTHING. I’m accessible on voxer weekdays 9-5, if you have questions or need anything, and we're here for you 110%.

  • $2,199 for 12 weeks (3 month payment plan option available)

TRAIN BOLD - TOP YOUR ENERGY - ROCK YOUR RECOVERY