Description
Updated for 2025 – Now with Brand New Content! 🚀
The Ride Harder 12-Week Cycling Plan has been fully updated for 2025, bringing you even more tools to help you become a stronger, faster, and more efficient cyclist—while also focusing on longevity and injury prevention.
🔥 What’s New in 2025?
✅ Strength Training with TrainingPeaks New Builder – Now includes structured strength sessions designed to protect your muscles as you age, keeping you stronger for longer!
✅ Longevity Hacks – Practical strategies to help you live longer, ride further, and stay in top cycling shape for years to come.
✅ Essential Cycling Skills & Secret Hacks – Master fundamental bike skills with clear, practical advice and insider tips to make you faster without extra effort—because smart riding beats just riding harder!
🚴♂️ This is more than just a training plan—it’s your ultimate cycling blueprint for 2025. Get started today and ride harder, ride smarter, and ride longer! 💪🔥
Want to become a stronger, faster cyclist and improve your endurance in just 12 weeks? The Ride Harder Plan is a complete power-based cycling program designed to help you build strength, boost efficiency, and ride further for longer—all while fitting around your lifestyle!
🚴♂️ What Makes This Plan Different?
Unlike generic training plans, this program goes beyond just prescribing workouts—it focuses on the complete cyclist:
✅ Structured Training: Targets all key physiological systems needed for cycling performance.
✅ Wellness & Mindset: Develop healthy habits and a positive ‘can-do’ mindset.
✅ Strength & Mobility: Improve pedal efficiency, core stability, and flexibility.
✅ Fuel for Performance: Get practical nutrition strategies to fuel your rides and recover faster.
✅ Real-World Results: Unlike Zwift-only plans, this will make you faster on the road, not just in virtual races.
💥 12 Weeks to Transform Your Cycling
🔹 Month 1 – ECONOMY: Ride more efficiently, improve your pedal stroke, and set your training zones while building a strong fitness base.
🔹 Month 2 – LACTATE THRESHOLD: Increase your FTP and learn how to sustain higher power outputs for longer.
🔹 Month 3 – AEROBIC CAPACITY: Push your cycling fitness to new heights with structured intervals and endurance work.
🗓️ How Many Sessions Per Week?
The plan is flexible! Typically, you’ll have:
✔ 2 Key Turbo Sessions during the week
✔ 1 Long Ride at the weekend (indoor or outdoor)
✔ 2 Optional Bonus Sessions for those who want to train more
💻 What You’ll Need
🔹 A turbo trainer or Watt Bike
🔹 Zwift, Rouvy, TrainingPeaks Virtual or a similar platform (optional)
🔹 A FREE TrainingPeaks account
🔹 A heart rate monitor or power meter (outdoor sessions can be done using heart rate alone)
🔥 Yours to Keep—Train on Your Terms!
✔ Start whenever you’re ready
✔ Reuse the plan as many times as you like
✔ Adapt it to fit your lifestyle
💬 What’s the Difference Between the Ride Harder Academy & This Plan?
This plan is a self-supported option delivered via TrainingPeaks, allowing you to train independently. The Ride Harder Academy, on the other hand, offers coaching support, expert guidance (nutrition, mindset, strength training), exclusive brand discounts, and a team environment—with intakes every October and an Advanced version in January.
🚀 Ready to Ride Harder? Get started today and take your cycling to the next level!
Doug (store manager) –
It seemed like a big leap for me to go from cycling for fun to full-on Academy hardcore training with all it’s associated jargon of FTP’s, Threshold Zones and ERG. But I have to say, it’s been the best decision of my cycling life to do this. The sessions are progressive and I loved the simplicity of how the IT worked to track progress and ensure accountability to do the sessions in the first place. 100% I would not have made the advances in fitness and benefit from targeted variation in exercise zones, should I tried to do this on my own accord without a plan or support from James and fellow Academy riders. If you’ve been umming and ahhing over doing Academy training I would thoroughly recommend Ride Harder and just taking the plunge, you won’t regret it!
Triathlon Dan (store manager) –
Hit my biggest ever FTP! The plan ensured that I wasn’t wasting time on inefficient training and was maximising the fitness gains I made. The plan also gave me the knowledge to understand the specific purpose of each training session as well as periodisation as a whole. The volume was manageable and meant that I could re-arrange my training week around life commitments without missing key training sessions, James highlighted within TrainingPeaks which sessions are “key” and which sessions are “optional” which really helped me manage my training for the best possible results.
I think that this plan is excellent both for athletes who haven’t been coached before and are looking for a halfway step at a reduced cost for an entry to structured training, as well as those who have extensive experience and so wish to have more control and input into their training plan.
I follow this plan year after year with continued improvements and hope that many others will #TrainSmart and #RideHarder“”