Work ate two sessions
- What shows
- The week’s load sits below what was planned, and Readiness shows you fresher than usual.
- What gets decided
- The missed work is not piled onto the weekend. The next week is reordered around the goal.
CYCLING COACHING
Power-based cycling coaching, built around you
Prepare for your next challenge with a plan that adapts to your schedule and progress.
An individual plan based on your power and schedule, with ongoing guidance and adjustments to your response. Road, gravel and MTB — XC, XCO and XCM marathon. Online coaching from Bogotá.
Two decades of applied cycling science.
What it costs to coach you each month.
The price is monthly because the work is monthly: a plan that is never revised stops being a plan after three weeks. What you pay for is not a file of sessions — it is someone reading your response every week and changing what needs changing.
Investment
from USD 110 / monthapprox. COP 350,000
- Individual power-based plan, built around your real availability and calendar.
- Weekly review of load, recovery and response, with the adjustments that follow.
- Zones anchored to your own thresholds and re-tested, not copied from a formula.
- Direct contact with the scientific director for day-to-day questions.
- Race strategy and scenario modelling when there is a dated objective.
- Your sessions in TrainingPeaks and your monitoring in the Athlete Portal, with the date of each update.
No lock-in. The first month usually includes an initial assessment so nothing is programmed on assumptions; if you already bring recent data, it is used.
Preparation and competition
The plan is tested where it matters: on your terrain and in competition.
Load, recovery, pacing, strategy and individual response work together to prepare for real courses, personal bests and competitive goals. And the course is not always tarmac: road, gravel and mountain bike — XC, XCO and XCM marathon — demand different effort profiles, and the plan is written against yours.
- Disciplines
- Road, gravel and MTB: XC, XCO, XCM
- Reach
- Online and global
- Follow-up
- Weekly response-based adjustments
- Competition
- Pacing, power and race scenarios
Alpha interprets
Training data becomes measurable progress.
ONE assesses your response, monitors progress and adjusts each week around your goal, recovery and race calendar.
Power.
Load.
Fatigue.
Recovery.
Context.
Goal.
Individual response.
ONE TRAINING PLANS
Train for new personal bests, stronger races and sustainable progress.
Every session, block and adjustment serves a concrete objective. ONE connects baseline assessment, planning, monitoring and race strategy so training can produce measurable change without losing sight of recovery, health and real life.
Delivery
Online · global reach
Follow-up
Weekly or fortnightly, according to the process
You receive
Personalized plan, race strategy and reports
01Performance outcomes we work toward
The plan begins with the result you want to build, not with a generic calendar.
- Develop sustainable power, endurance and the ability to hold race-specific efforts.
- Pursue new personal bests and arrive at key events with a defined pacing and power strategy.
- Use recovery, habits and body-composition goals as part of a responsible performance process.
- Turn each training week into evidence that helps confirm, adjust or redirect the plan.
02What the plan includes
Planning and analysis stay connected throughout the process.
- Initial assessment and athlete characterization.
- Structured planning around power, availability and competition calendar.
- Load, power, heart-rate and recovery analysis.
- Continuous follow-up and adjustments based on the cyclist’s real response.
- Course modeling, pacing, target-power scenarios and race strategy.
- Sessions ready to use on compatible training devices and platforms.
03How the process works
Four connected actions keep the plan responsive instead of static.
- Assess: establish the baseline, context and goal.
- Plan: prescribe the stimulus and organize the progression.
- Monitor: read load, response, recovery and adherence.
- Adjust: modify the next decision according to the available evidence.
04Who it is for
The system adapts to the athlete’s level, available data and competitive ambition.
- Cyclists who train consistently but cannot clearly read their progress.
- Athletes with power or training history who need deeper interpretation.
- Cyclists preparing a personal challenge, gran fondo, championship or competitive season.
- People who need to coordinate load, recovery, health and real-life constraints.
05Follow-up depth
The appropriate service level is defined before starting; scope is not improvised after enrollment.
- Continuity: structured planning with periodic review.
- Performance: more frequent data analysis and adjustments.
- Competition: deeper race strategy, forecasting and closer follow-up.
- Frequency, communication and deliverables are confirmed according to the goal and calendar.
Need a baseline before choosing a plan?See performance assessment
Ask about ONE training plansYour plan and your monitoring
Two places and one conversation.
Sessions arrive in one place, what you did is read in another, and the decision comes from talking it through. Knowing which is which avoids looking for the plan in the report or the report in the calendar.
Sessions
TrainingPeaks
Your coach prepares each session with its power target and syncs it to your head unit, trainer or platform. If yours does not sync, you get the file.
Monitoring
Athlete Portal
History, load, energy by zone and ONE Readiness in your private access, with the date of the latest published update.
Decision
Your coach
Direct contact for day-to-day questions, and the weekly review that changes what comes next.
One week, in four steps
- 01
Sessions prepared
Written for the days you can actually train, each with its purpose and its power range.
- 02
Training done
You ride it, the file syncs, and you tell your coach how it felt or what got in the way.
- 03
Data and context read
Load, peaks and Readiness in the portal, next to what you report: sleep, work, sensations.
- 04
Coach adjustment
Plan, execution and response are compared, and the following sessions are rewritten.
What the portal is for, in three ordinary weeks
Typical situations, not results: no figure here promises an improvement.
The watts say fresh; you say exhausted
- What shows
- Readiness reads fresh because it only sees power. You report heavy legs and bad sleep.
- What gets decided
- What you report carries weight. The intensity is postponed and the mismatch gets a question, not a verdict.
An informative effort is missing
- What shows
- The curve has no recent near-maximal effort at five minutes, so that part of the profile is old.
- What gets decided
- That intensity is not set from an old curve. A session that provides the effort comes first.
The portal is built from rides recorded with a power meter and shows the latest published update, not live data. ONE Readiness is a load reading, not a measurement of recovery. The portal and its reports are in Spanish.
Result
Jonathan Cantor, Pan American XCO champion.
He won the Pan American cross-country Olympic title in the cadet category in Paipa, Boyacá, in 2017, in his first year in the category and with his training directed by Edwin Castiblanco. It is shown for what it is, a case and not a promise: the plan is written for each rider, and the result also depends on them.
- Result
- Pan American XCO champion, cadet category · Paipa, Boyacá, 2017
- Coaching
- Edwin Castiblanco
Public reviews on Google
Cyclists on what changed once the training was guided.
Selected excerpts from public reviews. Individual experiences; read the full context on Google.
Frequently asked questions
Questions before starting a plan.
Is the plan actually personalised?
Yes. It is built from your level, weekly availability, history, goals, calendar and the data you already have. It is not a template or a calendar shared between riders.
Can I train by power or by heart rate?
Either. The process can integrate power, heart rate, perceived effort, load, recovery and context. How deep the analysis goes depends on the data and devices available, and that is stated before starting rather than after.
Do you coach riders outside Colombia?
Yes. Planning and follow-up work from anywhere. On-site assessments in the Bogotá laboratory are added when they contribute something the data alone cannot.
Does training at 2,600 m change the plan?
It changes the numbers. Available aerobic power drops noticeably at altitude, and more so for anyone not acclimatised, so an FTP measured at sea level does not transfer unchanged to Bogotá or the other way round. Zones have to be anchored where you actually train, and re-anchored if you race elsewhere.
Can I see my zones before committing to a plan?
Yes. The Alto de Patios Challenge estimates your power and heart-rate zones from FTP and body composition, free, with no sign-up and with a correction for Bogotá altitude. They are formula-based estimates rather than measurements, but understanding what each zone means before someone prescribes work inside them changes what you can ask of a plan.
What if my limit is not the training?
It happens more often than it looks. If your position on the bike forces you to compensate, more hours of plan amplify the problem instead of solving it. When the case points that way it is said plainly, and the assessment moves to biomechanics or to a performance evaluation before adding more load.
Where do I get my sessions and where do I see my monitoring?
Your coach prepares the sessions in TrainingPeaks and they sync to your head unit, trainer or platform; if yours does not sync, you get the file. Monitoring is in the Athlete Portal: history, load, energy by zone and ONE Readiness, with the date of the latest published update. The portal and its reports are in Spanish. Day-to-day questions go straight to the coaching team.
What does the coach do with what I see in the portal?
Compares it with what was planned and with what you report. If work ate two sessions, the week’s load shows up below plan and the next week is reordered instead of piling up what was missed. If the portal says you are fresh and you arrive exhausted, what you report carries weight and the mismatch gets questioned. If a duration has no recent efforts, that intensity is not set from an old curve.
Do I need an FTP test to start?
Not always. The included performance assessment reads the efforts already in your files. If informative efforts are missing at the durations that matter for your goal, a test or a session that provides them is scheduled before setting zones. Critical power and FTP are not treated as the same thing.
Turn every training week into measurable progress.
Tell us your goal, race schedule and available data. ONE Alpha builds and controls a process that evolves with your real response.
Choose how to start
The method behind the plan
The method behind the plan · 5 primary sourcesView the full citationsSeiler 2010 · Jones et al. 2019 · Allen et al. 2019 · Halson 2014 · Impellizzeri et al. 2020
The sources behind the intensity distribution, the zone anchoring and the load control.
- Seiler, S. (2010). What is best practice for training intensity and duration distribution in endurance athletes?. International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance.
- Jones, A. M., Burnley, M., Black, M. I., Poole, D. C. and Vanhatalo, A. (2019). The maximal metabolic steady state: redefining the ‘gold standard’. Physiological Reports.
- Allen, H., Coggan, A. R. and McGregor, S. (2019). Training and racing with a power meter (3.ª edición). VeloPress.
- Halson, S. L. (2014). Monitoring training load to understand fatigue in athletes. Sports Medicine.
- Impellizzeri, F. M., Tenan, M. S., Kempton, T., Novak, A. and Coutts, A. J. (2020). Acute:chronic workload ratio: conceptual issues and fundamental pitfalls. International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance.