Training Plans
Choose from a proven range of affordable, repeatable and customisable TrainingPeaks™ plans to target key phases of the season, improve specific physiological attributes or boost performance for particular cycling disciplines.
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Conditioning
Specifically designed for cyclists who are new to training or returning to training after an extended break. These plans build foundational fitness in a safe and progressive manner, aiming to get you ready to move onto one of our other plans.
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Base
Designed to be used 4-12 months out from your first A-priority event or race season these plans help develop all-round aerobic fitness and lay the foundations for better-quality event-specific training when your target events are closer.
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Endurance
Specifically targeting your ability to sustain power over durations of 3-5H and upwards, alongside your ability to produce hard efforts after several hours of riding. Suitable for all disciplines and can be used any time in the year.
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Threshold
Created to bring about improvements in your threshold power (e.g. FTP), these plans should also result in better recovery after hard efforts. Suitable for all disciplines, and can be used any time in the year.
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VO2max
Targeting VO2max, this plan should make you feel more punchy and improve abilities on efforts of 2-15 minutes and capacity to recover after repeated efforts. Suitable for disciplines. Best used 0-5 months from target event/competition.
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Anaerobic
These plans target anaerobic power and stamina, resulting in improved power over 20-seconds to 5-minutes, better stamina in supra-threshold efforts, and improved repeatability. Suitable for all disciplines. Recommended for use 0-5 months from target event.
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Ultra-Endurance
These plans build nicely from our endurance plans to work on improved power output and resistance to fatigue over durations of 5-6H and upwards, and over multiple consecutive days. Good preparation for events like sportives, stage races, XCM, long gravel races and ultra-distance events.
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Weight Training
A selection of home-based and gym-based weight training plans, specifically designed for cyclists to complement your on-bike training. Suitable for all disciplines, and can be repeated as many times as you wish.
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Discipline-Specific
These plans are designed to be used in the lead-up to a key A-priority event, and target the key attributes of fitness needed for success in a given discipline, as well as helping fine tune things like technical skills, nutrition, and mental preparedness.
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Taper Plans
We have a selection of discipline-specific two-week taper plans designed to have you in peak shape on the day of your A-priority event(s).
There are various volume options allowing you to connect these plans seamlessly with your regular training.
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Special Populations
A selection of plans designed for the unique needs of particular population groups, such as the slower recovery cycle of masters athletes and the female hormonal cycle.
Want a Free Plan?
We’ve made the first few weeks of some of our most popular plans available for free, so you can test them out before buying and make sure they are the right fit for you. Use the link below to get access!
Pricing
2-Week Taper Plans
$12
8-Week Plans
$25
16-Week Plans
$45
Plan Features:
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We try to make the experience of training with one of our plans as close as possible to having an on-hand coach. All plans come with a PDF user guide to help you get the most from the plan, including advice on how to make adjustments if needed. Written guidance is also provided within the plan, both session-by-session and week-by-week.
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All sessions are built using TrainingPeak’s ‘Workout Builder’. This means you can export them to your head-unit, or automatically sync them with platforms like Zwift or TrainerRoad, where they are then available to be performed in ERG mode.
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All our plans include performance tests at appropriate points to help you gauge progress, and/or set your training intensity zones.
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Our plans are backed both by scientific studies and over a decade of collective coaching experience. Within each session, we include a description of the session’s key purpose, so that you’ll always know what you’re trying to achieve, and where relevant we’ll include a link to the supporting scientific papers.
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We’ve designed our plans so that they can be linked together one after the other, based on your training goals, physiological strengths and limiters and the time of year. Many pre-built plans are discipline-specific. However, the type of training you’ll need to do will depend both on your discipline and on your own strengths and limiters, and therefore our linkable approach allows considerably more flexibility and individuality for your training.
“This has, by far, been the best endurance plan I have ever used - I love the way you can view the evidence backing it up. I can’t recommend these plans enough”.
D Rogers. Training for Road and TT World Championships 2022.
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“I used High North Performance to prepare for my 2023 racing season. I've been cycling for 25 years in most of the major disciplines, but hadn’t followed a detailed training plan in a long time.
I found High North on the Training Peaks marketplace, beginning with their Indoor Autumn/Winter plan. In the spring I used a combination of plans including VO2max Development and Anaerobic Booster to prepare for a crit-focused race season. The program was effective - I upped my racing category and had a few podiums over the summer!
Emma and Tom are great to work with, very responsive. I love that the plans are both straightforward and also science backed (as referenced in the workouts themselves). The articles they publish balance scientific validity (recognising uncertainty where it exists) and actionable takeaways.
After taking the Autumn off the bike, I’m back on the program, specifically a Threshold Development push. I’m confident of another great season ahead.
Thank you Emma & Tom!”
A. Banks-Watson