Building cycling strength that lasts
Stronger off the bike means stronger on the bike. Boost your performance, prevent injury, and move more efficiently with a personalized movement assessment and a 12-week strength plan from BaseCamp experts Lori Thomson and Menachem Brodie.
Your program starts with a full movement screen, after which your coach builds a custom plan based on your mobility, injury history, and strength training needs. Each plan targets cycling-specific movement patterns, improves structural integrity, and helps reduce injuries from overuse. The plans are ideal for road, gravel, tri, mountain, and indoor cyclists alike.
How a Movement Assessment and Strength Training Help Cyclists
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Identifies mobility and flexibility limitations that restrict optimal pedaling mechanics
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Detects muscular imbalances that can lead to overuse injuries
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Improves stability and control for better bike handling and performance
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Provides a personalized movement report with corrective strategies and exercises
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Allows you to work directly with a certified strength and movement specialist to tailor your plan
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Includes a progressive, 16-week, cycling-specific strength program built around your assessment
BaseCamp athletes get exclusive pricing
Each assessment and 12-week plan package typically costs $279, but all BaseCamp athletes get a discounted price of $225. Renew with additional 12-week plans to stay strong all year.
Plans are tailored for all experience levels, from strength training beginners to seasoned lifters. We recommend purchasing about two weeks before your desired start date.
BaseCamp Strength Trainers
Lori Thomson
Lori initially focused her sports career around soccer and became a semi-professional soccer player, and she went on to become a strength coach, a triathlete coach, and then a cycling coach. Even after years of strength and conditioning coaching, movement screening, and cycling coaching, Lori strives to learn new ways to improve her coaching to enhance athletes' capabilities. Her goal is to diagnose an athlete's movement to prescribe the optimal path for peak performance.
Menachem Brodie
With well over 15 years of coaching experience and a sports-medicine background spanning from emergency medicine and physical therapy settings, to the NCAA Division I strength and conditioning setting, Menachem brings a unique and diverse skill set. Coaching since 2000, Menachem has been working with athletes in a number of settings and a broad variety of sports from basketball and cycling to CrossFit and triathlon.
What to expect
Here's how it works:
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Purchase your in-depth movement analysis and 12-week personalized strength and conditioning plan by clicking "Start Now" above.
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We'll email you a link to fill out an athlete history questionnaire, which will give us helpful information as we design your plan. This is also where you will choose the coach you want to work with.
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Once you've purchased and filled out the questionnaire, the coach will send you invitation to a free app (either CoachRx or TrueCoach, available both on web and mobile) to complete your movement assessment within 7 days. (Only the assessment will be done through this app; your 12-week plan will be provided through TrainingPeaks.)
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Once you join the app, you will be assigned a "workout" on the following day that will take you through the movement assessment. You will film yourself doing each exercise in the assessment and attach the video to the "Enter results" box in the app (either online or through the app).
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Once you have completed the assessment, the coach will use it and your questionnaire to create your analysis report and custom strength/conditioning plan. This can take up to 7-10 days after you submit your assessment.
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The coach will email you your movement analysis and share your custom plan with you in TrainingPeaks.
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You will load your custom plan to your TrainingPeaks calendar to begin on the Monday of your choosing. Click here for TrainingPeaks' instructions on loading a plan.
How to prepare for the Assessment
The assessment process should take you about 45-60 minutes. Here's what you'll need:
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Bare feet
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Yoga mat or space on the floor
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A 10- to 15-pound weight of some kind; a reusable shopping bag filled with 10-15 pounds of stuff works great, too!
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A smartphone or other device for filming
The assessment "workout" will consist of several exercises that you will perform while recording your movements as a video taken with your smartphone or other device. You will then attach the video file in the results box for each workout before clicking "Finish Workout" to submit your assessment.
Please note: The assessment workout will be assigned to the next day after you accept the coach's invitation, but you can do it at any time in the next 7 days; just find the workout in the "Upcoming" or "Past" section of the app.
Customer Testimonials
The assessment was very beneficial for me. It gave me insights into my weaknesses and a plan to address those weaknesses. - Tom G.
The assessment was thorough and the feedback was interesting. I was impressed by how much she saw from a series of short videos! I'm pretty early in the plan, but so far the combination of exercises and their order make sense in my body. (Which isn't always the case!) - Jessie D.
I appreciated the specificity of the assessment and his goals for what his plan would give me. I love the progress I am seeing. - Blithe H.
Lori's passion for high-quality strength training is clear. The process was simple, the assessment was clearly organized and specific, and the video reviewing my plan was thorough and got me excited to proceed! - Erica R.
My expectations were totally exceeded. I had expected to do the strength assessment and get a plan, that was it. Instead, she contacted me prior to sending the plans to clarify some of the information provided and ask some questions. And then, with the plan, I got a YouTube video reviewing her findings. I would strongly recommend this approach to anyone looking for a strength plan. - Amy K.
I was very impressed by the level of detail Menachem went into to evaluate where I’m at right now. I’m confident that my new plan has exactly what I need to become a stronger rider over the next twelve weeks. - Beth H.
The assessment was easy to complete, and Lori was quite responsive to my needs, changing days for workouts, and clarifying the equipment that I had available to me. - Jan B.
Just received my movement assessment back from Coach Lori - really thorough and super helpful to have someone go through and tell you where your strengths and weaknesses lie. I'm looking forward to starting my program. Highly recommend it if you are looking for a strength program! - Margaret S.
Pre-Made Strength Training Plans
If you don't need a personal assessment or a custom training plan, you may find one of our pre-built strength training plans to be the perfect fit! Below are several recommendations from Menachem Brodie; please note that these plans do not include workouts in TrainingPeaks' new strength builder format.