Science-based cycling training for (peri)menopausal athletes that turns your cycling from exhausted-and-always- getting-dropped to front-of-the-peloton-stronger-faster cyclist within 60 days

The Current Landscape of Cycling Training for Athletes over 40.

(Peri)menopause symptoms like insomnia, extreme fatigue, hot flashes, weight gain, and muscle loss left you struggling to train and compete. The deep exhaustion and fatigue has you thinking you’re really really sick, like maybe with cancer, or an auto-immune disease, right? 

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

That deep exhaustion steals your enjoyment of cycling, steals the fun from eating delicious foods, steals the fun of traveling the world, steals the joys out of your life.  It can destroy your intimate relationships and decimate your self esteem, isolating you from your fun-loving cycling friends, and excludes you from adrenaline filled cycling adventures.

You’ve resorted to what’s always worked: dieting + riding longer and longer miles in the saddle. Let me guess, you’ve noticed the extra visceral fat lining your midsection and thighs- thanks menopause.  Only this time it’s backfired and instead you’ve gained more weight despite dieting. Plus you’re extremely exhausted – where you’re too tired to ride or even enjoy cycling.

You internalize shame or guilt about your body changing shape. Frustrated and pissed off that you’ve “done everything right” and yet your body is letting you down. 

You might even feel like giving up.  

You don’t know how to organize your cycling training plan to fit it all in; the strength training, the cycling, or the recovery.  Do you feel like recovery is a missed chance to workout so you just skip it anyways? 

What’s the best way to get faster on my bike?  You don’t actually know what to do at each training session, like what’s the best way for me to get stronger?

All you know is that you don’t want to “get bulky,” and you don’t want to gain weight, and I’ve gotta change something or I’m gonna continue getting slower and eventually quit.

And then there’s the gaslighting of the wellness and medical establishment, telling you things like “it’s all in your head” and “that’s just how menopause is.”  

If you google “best workouts for women over 50”, you’ll get this crap,  “ …exercise, moderately, for up to 150 minutes per week. Use the talk method and don’t go breathless, you should be able to maintain a conversation, don’t try too hard. Don’t get stressed out….” 

Delivering old-fashioned BAD advice to powerhouse over-40 athletes. The ultimate insult. This is still “acceptable” inside of the medical community. It’s downright patriarchal bullshit. 

It’s NOT your fault.

The reason we’re struggling is because of what's happening in those traditional training programs that *should* make all cyclists fitter and faster...

​You do exactly what those 'guru' coaches say, follow their plan, and still limp along, burnt out, exhausted, riding slower still, and actually worse off than when you started...

​What they don’t tell you is that those traditional coaching is built up on studies of young, active, male cyclists.

They don’t tell you it’s the white-cis-hetero-centered patriarchy dictating whom to study in medicine and sports studies (hint, it wasn’t women or minorities)

They don’t tell you that we don’t have a catalog of information due to exclusion of peri-post menopausal athletes from sports science studies until 2016ish

And they don’t tell you the game has changed now, and traditional methods don’t work.

WE now know and have data to support that fasted riding “to burn fat”, doesn’t work for us; Riding endless zone 2, doesn’t work for us.

I don’t guess. I know.

Since 2020 I’ve coached 100+ (peri)menopausal athletes aged 40-80 to slay their cycling goals and embark on their dreams by getting stronger, climbing faster, and riding longer too.

Which led me to…. be interviewed on podcasts  (Fuel Your Strength and Tea-Time) and magazine articles like these two in bicycling.com before launching our own subscriber only podcast!

I’m not just a coach, I’m also a competitive cyclist, and racing at a top level since 2009. Traveling around the US to compete in road, time trial, stage races, criteriums, gravel races, and track racing on the velodrome.

I’m training the same way I coach our athletes with notable results: 2023 - 2nd place at UCI Master’s World Track Championship in the Points Race

2019- National Champion at USAC Master’s Track Championships among 6+ state championships.

When I turned 39-40, I started experiencing extreme fatigue, the kind that left me feeling like I need to use tape to hold my eyelids open. I’ve always been the kind of person who is wide awake after one cup of coffee, but this was different.

This damaged my cycling training, my sleep, and my career working and leading at an indoor cycling studio.

The more I researched, the more I realized… NONE OF US 40-something women athletes KNOW ABOUT THIS PERIMENOPAUSE SHIT.

I began to research more about perimenopause. I read in “Roar” by Selene Yeager and Dr Stacy Sims that I was experiencing the fatigue associated with perimenopause and there was something I could do about it! 

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I took what I'd learned and put it into practice the very thing we specialize in...using clarity of my own training data and subjective experience, and it’s time for more women cyclists over 40 to gain back their cycling, and athletic identities with our secret weapon style of training. You are an athlete if you’re training on purpose.

Imagine What Your Life Would Be Like If You Had A Clear Idea Of What Cycling Training Works For You.

So I came up with the way to organize and implement results-focused cycling training into your life.​

Because nobody was talking about why or how we get stronger AND ride, we bring into focus a balance of Strength Training, Cycling Training, Fueling with the right foods at the right times and strategically incorporating more recovery.

Introducing

Level-Up 1:1 Coaching Membership

$625/mo; $100 Start Up Fee

What’s included:

• Onboarding Kick off Call

• Access to Training Peaks How-To session

• Premium Training Peaks Membership

• Goal Setting Session

• Weekly workouts in your Custom Cycling Training Plan

• Daily Workouts Emailed To You

• Twice/Month Training Plan Adjustments

• Weekly Data File Review + Analysis

• Coach Communication via comments in TrainingPeaks, or Voxer App

• Once/Month 30min coaching calls

• Unlimited Resource Library access to Fearless Fueling: 3 value-packed videos + nutrition guidance

• Unlimited Resource Library access to Rock Your Recovery: 3 value-packed videos + sleep guidance

$100 Start Up Fee

Minimum 3 month requirement.

5% Discount when paid in full for 6 or 12 months.

When you join your Personal Cycling Coach inside Level Up, you quickly access your training program from anywhere. It’s exclusively for peri & post menopausal athletes like you, and you have an organized training schedule that steps you through your strength training, cycling training, fueling and recovery, so you know exactly what to do and when. This way you’re consistently knocking out the training that WILL lead you to success of your cycling dreams aka your big, hairy, audacious, cycling goal.

If you don’t join now - and your event is already 12-24 weeks away, how will you know you’ve given 100% when you’re on the starting line as fit, skilled, and ready as you can be to slay your goal event or trip?

If you can’t answer that, 1:1 LEVEL UP coaching is for you.