The Benefits of Women’s cycling coaching
Introducing:
The Women's Cycle Coaching Programme
Cycle Coaching for Women – Tailored to Your Physiology
For decades, women in cycling have been coached like men. At the North Women's Cycle Coaching Programme, we understand the fact that women are not small men, and they definitely cannot be coached using similar approaches! Women are vastly different to their male counterparts physiologically, and our coaching team, through extensive study of the subject, possesses profound knowledge of the skills required to help our female cyclists take their riding to the next level.
The North Women's Cycle Coaching Programme is all about working with a woman’s physiology, and not against it. When training is designed to flow around an riders cycle, a space of sustainable growth is created. Using the FitrCoach app, we can write training specific to the different phases of a woman’s cycle and take steps forward based on the unique response that each session generates.
By gaining a deep level of understanding in the sphere of women’s physiology, we at North are able to take strides towards creating healthy futures in sport for our female athletes. If you are a female cyclist looking to elevate your riding without negatively impacting your health, take a look at our packages below!
The North Women's Cycle Coaching Programme is all about working with a woman’s physiology, and not against it. When training is designed to flow around an riders cycle, a space of sustainable growth is created. Using the FitrCoach app, we can write training specific to the different phases of a woman’s cycle and take steps forward based on the unique response that each session generates.
By gaining a deep level of understanding in the sphere of women’s physiology, we at North are able to take strides towards creating healthy futures in sport for our female athletes. If you are a female cyclist looking to elevate your riding without negatively impacting your health, take a look at our packages below!
£100 Per Month
Free initial phone consultation.
Training history and performance review. ERG Mode workouts and Zwift-compatible workouts. Weekly individual training plan delivered via Training Peaks. Weekly feedback overview via Training Peaks. Monthly communication. Training peaks account. |
£150 Per Month
Free initial phone consultation.
Training history and performance review. ERG Mode workouts and Zwift-compatible workouts. Weekly individual training plan delivered via Training Peaks. Weekly in-depth feedback via Training Peaks. Weekly communication. Unlimited plan edits. Training peaks account. |
£200 Per Month
Free initial phone consultation.
Advanced training history, performance analysis, and technique review report. ERG Mode workouts and Zwift-compatible workouts. Weekly individual training plan delivered via Training Peaks. Daily in-depth feedback analysed through WK05 and delivered in Training Peaks. Unlimited communication with priority response. Unlimited plan edits with faster turnaround. Premium Training Peaks account. |
Elite Performance Coaching
Achieve unparalleled results with a fully individualised, science-based training approach designed to push your performance to the next level. This package is crafted for serious competitive athletes seeking cutting-edge coaching based on detailed physiological data and advanced analytics.
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During the menstrual cycle, there are changes in the amount of two important hormones, oestrogen and progesterone. The average menstrual cycle is 28 days long and is commonly divided into three phases. Cycles can range anywhere from 21 to 35 days in adults and from 21 to 45 days in young teens.
The first phase (called the early follicular phase) oestrogen and progesterone levels are low.
The middle phase (called the ovulatory phase), oestrogen levels are high and progesterone levels are low.
The final phase (called the mid-luteal phase), oestrogen and progesterone levels are high.
These short-term, rapid changes in hormone levels in our experience affect exercise performance, but general guidelines on exercise performance across the menstrual cycle cannot, and should not, be formed. Instead, we recommend that a personalised approach should be taken based on each athlete’s individual response to exercise performance across the menstrual cycle.
Creating a deeper level of self-awareness of your own menstrual cycle, you can maximise the rewards and minimise the risks so that you can achieve your full potential as an athlete.
Menstruation phenotype.
With every athlete we work with at Fast-her we break their menstrual cycle down into six phases.
Menstruation (1)
Early Follicular (2)
Late Follicular (3)
Ovulation (4)
Early Luteal (5)
Late Luteal (6)
By breaking down your cycle into six phases we can begin the process of looking at your individual response in each phase. Based from that individual response we assign each athlete a high, medium and low response score.
This allows us as coaches to create highly personal and individual training programs around your unique physiology. Our goal is to empower woman to work with their physiology, so we can take their athletic performance to the next level.
Unique athlete footprint
For years we’ve fully understood that each athlete leaves a unique athlete footprint. Every training session, every phase, every recovery block, taper, peak leaves a unique footprint, a unique athlete footprint. That same foot print also applies to your menstrual cycle and those six individual phases outlined above.
By firstly tracking your cycle and logging symptoms, we can cross reference that data with the training you’re doing. We then make notes and apply a high, medium or low score alongside those notes for that phase. This process is repeated over the full six phases until we make a complete full circle back to Menstruation (1). Once back at step (1) we look at your score and read previous notes to help ‘loosely’ guide us in terms of the approach we use. The reason we use the word loosely is because in our opinion it takes a minimum of 3 months to find a pattern with your cycle. Once we begin to find your own individual pattern we can look back at your historical training and menstrual cycle data to create a highly unique and individual path forward. This path is based around you and you alone. Its your journey as a female athlete, a female athlete with unique physiology.
Success leaves clues and it’s our role to guide you forward based from looking back and analysing each step you take.
The first phase (called the early follicular phase) oestrogen and progesterone levels are low.
The middle phase (called the ovulatory phase), oestrogen levels are high and progesterone levels are low.
The final phase (called the mid-luteal phase), oestrogen and progesterone levels are high.
These short-term, rapid changes in hormone levels in our experience affect exercise performance, but general guidelines on exercise performance across the menstrual cycle cannot, and should not, be formed. Instead, we recommend that a personalised approach should be taken based on each athlete’s individual response to exercise performance across the menstrual cycle.
Creating a deeper level of self-awareness of your own menstrual cycle, you can maximise the rewards and minimise the risks so that you can achieve your full potential as an athlete.
Menstruation phenotype.
With every athlete we work with at Fast-her we break their menstrual cycle down into six phases.
Menstruation (1)
Early Follicular (2)
Late Follicular (3)
Ovulation (4)
Early Luteal (5)
Late Luteal (6)
By breaking down your cycle into six phases we can begin the process of looking at your individual response in each phase. Based from that individual response we assign each athlete a high, medium and low response score.
This allows us as coaches to create highly personal and individual training programs around your unique physiology. Our goal is to empower woman to work with their physiology, so we can take their athletic performance to the next level.
Unique athlete footprint
For years we’ve fully understood that each athlete leaves a unique athlete footprint. Every training session, every phase, every recovery block, taper, peak leaves a unique footprint, a unique athlete footprint. That same foot print also applies to your menstrual cycle and those six individual phases outlined above.
By firstly tracking your cycle and logging symptoms, we can cross reference that data with the training you’re doing. We then make notes and apply a high, medium or low score alongside those notes for that phase. This process is repeated over the full six phases until we make a complete full circle back to Menstruation (1). Once back at step (1) we look at your score and read previous notes to help ‘loosely’ guide us in terms of the approach we use. The reason we use the word loosely is because in our opinion it takes a minimum of 3 months to find a pattern with your cycle. Once we begin to find your own individual pattern we can look back at your historical training and menstrual cycle data to create a highly unique and individual path forward. This path is based around you and you alone. Its your journey as a female athlete, a female athlete with unique physiology.
Success leaves clues and it’s our role to guide you forward based from looking back and analysing each step you take.
