Train with Phil’s Coach, FasCat Frank to prepare for Phil’s Fondo!  You’ll complete similar workouts to what Phil does to prepare for all his big stage races. Sweet Spot training, threshold intervals, and even some anaerobic work. It’s all in here + the diabolical Tabatas (Phil’s favorite, haha). And who could forget about Strava hunting – a valuable training “technique.”

This plan starts on September 17th, 2018, If you want to get faster before then, check out our Strava Training Plans!

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Thoughts of long rides and gorgeous views of the Rockies on your mind? Our Haute Route Rockies Training Plan starts May 13th to get you ready for the lung-busting mountain climbs and scenic descents you’ll enjoy June 24-30.

You’ll progress your riding time to increase your Chronic Training Load (CTL). You’ll start with a field test will set your training zones, especially sweet spot! You’ll find the FasCat Wattage and Heart Rate Zones Sheet that in this plan that has the all important Sweet Spot Training Zone!

What you get:

• FREE TrainingPeaks Account (30 Days Premium)
• FREE YogaGlo Membership (60 Days)
• 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Back
• Mobile App (iOS and Droid)
• Coaching Support in a Private Facebook Group
• Foundations Back Strengthening
• REVO Strength & Conditioning Videos
• Daily Email Workout Reminders
• GPS, Heart Rate, and Power Data Uploads
• Strength & Conditioning Routines with Video
• Tons of Sweet Spot Intervals!

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This six week Leadville 100 training plan will prep you for the grueling alpine climbs in Leadville with gobs of Sweet Spot and Threshold plus a dab of anaerobic work during the week. The weekends are full of long rides up to 8 hours with plenty of climbing that will give you a chance to test your fueling plans as well as your saddle fit! There’s also plenty of low aerobic endurance work to help you build that mitochondrial density that will make you more efficient on race day.  Read more about Leadville 100 training here. Our Leadville 100 Training Plan, starts June 30th (!) for the August 11th, 2018 race.

With this plan, you can “sweet spot up the whazoo” and raise your threshold power output! This periodized plan will have you progressing your riding time to increase your Chronic Training Load (CTL) 40-60%. You’ll start with a field test will set your training zones, especially sweet spot! A second test will measure your improvement after following the plan! Athletes can expect to increase their FTP by 5 – 20%!

What you get:

• FREE TrainingPeaks Account (30 Days Premium)
• FREE YogaGlo Membership (60 Days)
• 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Back
• Mobile App (iOS and Droid)
• Coaching Support in a Private Facebook Group
• Foundations Back Strengthening
• REVO Strength & Conditioning Videos
• Daily Email Workout Reminders
• GPS, Heart Rate, and Power Data Uploads
• Strength & Conditioning Routines with Video
• Sweet Spot Intervals

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Sweet Spot Training Plan, Part 3 for athletes who are racing soon but still need to build a base/ride more/raise CTL/increase threshold power.  This 6-week plan is great to begin after you have completed sweet spot parts 1 and 2 or need to hit turbo with your sweet spot training.

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Choose a Basic, Intermediate or Advanced plan based on how much time you have to train, your age and ability level. No matter which plans you choose, you’ll ‘enjoy’ all the nastiness that makes Phil faster: VO2’s, 1 minuters, Tabatas, threshold, suprathreshold, and even Sweet Spot work specific to a plan customized for Strava segments greater or less than 15 minutes. You’ll perform a Strava “Field Test” at the beginning, middle and the end of the plan so you can measure your improvement and get that PR and/or KOM.

What you get:

• FREE TrainingPeaks Account (30 Days Premium)
• FREE YogaGlo Membership (60 Days)
• 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Back
• Mobile App (iOS and Droid)
• Coaching Support in a Private Facebook Group
• Foundations Back Strengthening
• REVO Strength & Conditioning Videos
• Daily Email Workout Reminders
• GPS, Heart Rate, and Power Data Uploads
• Strength & Conditioning Routines with Video
• Strava Segment Length Specific Workouts

Check out the Strava PR Training Tip in Outside Magazine written by Coach Frank!

Whether you’ve got a $20K TT machine or just a set of clip-on aerobars for your trusty road bike, we all know it’s really the engine that matters so get ready to smash your next Time Trial with this 6-week Intervals for Time Trials training plan! You’ll start with a 20min Field Test to set your Functional Threshold Power and Heart Rate in the included FasCat Zones Sheet, then use your training zones to ride just hard enough to get faster & stronger without burning out so you can go hard again the next day!

What you get:

• FREE TrainingPeaks Account (30 Days Premium)
• FREE YogaGlo Membership (60 Days)
• 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Back
• Mobile App (iOS and Droid)
• Coaching Support in a Private Facebook Group
• Foundations Back Strengthening
• REVO Strength & Conditioning Videos
• Daily Email Workout Reminders
• GPS, Heart Rate, and Power Data Uploads
• Strength & Conditioning Routines with Video
• TT Specific Intervals

Need some extra help adjusting your training plan for your hectic schedule or outlining your season? Want to learn the rationale behind the training plan design?  Do you have extra time to train and want to discuss custom revisions to make your plan better?

We offer 30-minute phone consultations for $75. Just share your TrainingPeaks info with Coach Frank, [Enter his email frank@fascatcoaching.com under account > Add Coaches], in TrainingPeaks and we can work with you to get you on track for a stellar season!

What you get:

• 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Back
• Review of your training
• Opportunity to ask questions
• Power Data analysis/ Chart Setup
• Power Data MetricsReview
• Re-arrange workouts or tailor your season

Whether it’s Strava PR’s or a race with some serious vertical gain, this six week hill climbing training plan will put you on the start line well prepared. You’ll start with a 20min Field Test to set your Functional Threshold Power and Heart Rate in the included FasCat Zones Sheet, then use your training zones to ride just hard enough to get faster & stronger without burning out so you can go hard again the next day! That means lots of Tempo and Sweet Spot as well as Threshold intervals during the week and group rides or other harder efforts on the weekends.

What you get:

• FREE TrainingPeaks Account (30 Days Premium)
• FREE YogaGlo Membership (60 Days)
• 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Back
• Mobile App (iOS and Droid)
• Coaching Support in a Private Facebook Group
• Foundations Back Strengthening
• REVO Strength & Conditioning Videos
• Daily Email Workout Reminders
• GPS, Heart Rate, and Power Data Uploads
• Strength & Conditioning Routines with Video
• Hill Climb Specific Intervals

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After building a solid base to race from, this plan balances your weekend racing and group rides with weekday training and recovery. Weekday intervals mix up aerobic & anaerobic efforts like criss cross and Over/Unders and there’s some steady state Sweet Spot, Threshold and VO2’s as well.

What you get:

• FREE TrainingPeaks Account (30 Days Premium)
• FREE YogaGlo Membership (60 Days)
• 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Back
• Mobile App (iOS and Droid)
• Coaching Support in a Private Facebook Group
• Foundations Back Strengthening
• REVO Strength & Conditioning Videos
• Daily Email Workout Reminders
• GPS, Heart Rate, and Power Data Uploads
• Strength & Conditioning Routines with Video
• Road Racing Specific Intervals

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Our 40k time trial training plan includes time trial specific threshold intervals and 40K “Race Simulation” workouts. It’s all about raising your threshold power output because that’s how you time trial your fastest! To do so there are TT intervals like we’ve described in this TT Training Tip. There are also VO2’s and supra-threshold fatigue resistance Intervals (FRC’s) designed to raise your power output. Got a local TT series or other training races on your calendar? You can replace race-effort workouts with actual races because there’s nothing like pinning a number on your jersey for the most motivation.

What you get:

• FREE TrainingPeaks Account (30 Days Premium)
• FREE YogaGlo Membership (60 Days)
• 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Back
• Mobile App (iOS and Droid)
• Coaching Support in a Private Facebook Group
• Foundations Back Strengthening
• REVO Strength & Conditioning Videos
• Daily Email Workout Reminders
• GPS, Heart Rate, and Power Data Uploads
• Strength & Conditioning Routines with Video
• 40K Time-Trial Specific Intervals

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FasCat’s Gran Fondo Training Plan is for the athlete and rider that has loftier goals than just finishing. Choose between a basic, intermediate or advanced training plan based on the amount of time you have to train per week, your age and your ability level.

This periodized plan will have you progressing your riding time to increase your Chronic Training Load (CTL) 40-60%. You’ll start with a field test will set your training zones, especially sweet spot! A second test will measure your improvement after following the plan!

What you get:

• FREE TrainingPeaks Account (30 Days Premium)
• FREE YogaGlo Membership (60 Days)
• 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Back
• Mobile App (iOS and Droid)
• Coaching Support in a Private Facebook Group
• Foundations Back Strengthening
• REVO Strength & Conditioning Videos
• Daily Email Workout Reminders
• GPS, Heart Rate, and Power Data Uploads
• Strength & Conditioning Routines with Video
• Sweet Spot Intervals

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The Bailey Hundo requires riders to bring their climbing legs and the ability to descend at high speeds. We’ve built this plan to target both skills. The plan is also designed around athletes who work a full-time job, with shorter workouts during the week, and longer workouts on the weekend. You will build aerobic endurance and power with Sweet Spot, and we’ll throw in a race-simulation during week 5 to spice things up a bit!

What you get:

• FREE TrainingPeaks Account (30 Days Premium)
• FREE YogaGlo Membership (60 Days)
• 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Back
• Mobile App (iOS and Droid)
• Coaching Support in a Private Facebook Group
• Foundations Back Strengthening
• REVO Strength & Conditioning Videos
• Daily Email Workout Reminders
• GPS, Heart Rate, and Power Data Uploads
• Strength & Conditioning Routines with Video
• Bailey Hundo Race Specific Intervals

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Hard hill repeats balanced with endurance miles and recovery to make you super fast! You’ll be increasing your ability to climb hard, recover, and repeat with hill-specific interval workouts covering threshold and VO2 power! And then there are the dreaded Tabata Intervals (see example workout below) to really sharpen up your legs!

Whether you’re going for a state title or a PR at the Colorado State Time Trial Championships in June, our Time Trial Training Plan will help you get there! You’ll be training to increase your threshold power with Threshold, VO2 Max, and Anaerobic workouts.

What you get:

• FREE TrainingPeaks Account (30 Days Premium)
• FREE YogaGlo Membership (60 Days)
• 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Back
• Mobile App (iOS and Droid)
• Coaching Support in a Private Facebook Group
• Foundations Back Strengthening
• REVO Strength & Conditioning Videos
• Daily Email Workout Reminders
• GPS, Heart Rate, and Power Data Uploads
• Strength & Conditioning Routines with Video
• TT Specific Intervals

Sample Workout Gallery: