Elite Coaching
The same coaching access and insight we bring to Elite UCI World Cup athletes, fully customised around your goals and your schedule.
Our coaching methodology
At AO Athletes, coaching is built on four pillars: physical preparation, technical skills coaching, mental performance coaching, and nutritional coaching, treated as four connected parts of the same athlete rather than four separate services bolted together.
Technical skills coaching sharpens what an athlete can do on the bike; mental performance work builds the discipline and belief that get them to the start line able to use it; nutritional coaching underpins both. Every plan is delivered through TrainingPeaks with direct access to your coach, not a template handed over and left to run itself, so it can move with the season as it unfolds.
The four axis model
Physical preparation at AO Athletes runs on something you won't find anywhere else: the four-axis model, our own physiological framework developed through ongoing postgraduate research into what actually separates elite enduro performance from the rest of the field.
Rather than reducing an athlete to a single fitness number, it profiles four distinct dimensions of performance, built from real season-long data on UCI EDR World Cup athletes, not assumptions borrowed from road cycling. It's the difference between training a bigger engine and training the right one, and it's the foundation every AO Athlete’s physical preparation plan is built on.
Our Process
Initial Consultation
We start with a call to understand your goals, your race calendar, and where you're starting from, so the plan we build is shaped around you, not a template.
Testing
Physiological and skills-based testing gives us a genuine baseline, so every training decision that follows is built on real data rather than a guess.
Ongoing Support
Direct access to your coach through calls, texts, and voice notes, so your plan can move with you as the season and your form develop.
Technical Feedback
Regular feedback on your riding itself, lines, body position, race craft, because a bigger engine only counts if you can actually put it down on the trail.
AO Athletes 
Join The Best In The World
We coach more athletes than any other provider, which means you get to join a large community of riders from around the world.
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