Strength training forprofessional cyclists
Personalized strength programming for riders at the top, and the ones getting there. Power you can deliver more often, season after season, without breaking down. No wasted mass, no wasted watts.
Photo: PhotonewsYou already do the work. Strength is where the margin still is.
The threshold work, the recovery, the nutrition: it's handled. You know the engine. What most riders leave on the table is the force behind the sprint, the surge over the top, the last acceleration when the race is decided.
Not for lack of effort. Off-the-bike work tends to be the part that's generic, bolted on, or skipped. That's exactly where time is found.
Adaptation closes that gap. Built around you, not a template.
Individual programming, built on data.
Every rider gets a different program, built around your body, your demands and your race calendar, and synced to the work you do on the bike. Stronger sprint, sharper acceleration, more force over the climbs, fewer injuries. Stronger on the bike. Not heavier, not more fatigued.
Test & measure
Strength profile, posture and rider type, mapped first. The program is built on what the data says, not assumptions.
Periodized planning
Structured toward your peak moments, so the strength is there on the days that decide the season.
Delivered via TrainingPeaks
Clear, prescribed and fully transparent, and worked through together with the rest of your performance staff, so the strength side fits the whole picture.
Stronger, without the cost.
Mass and weight
This isn't hypertrophy work. Force and power are trained through the nervous system, not added muscle. The output goes up. Stronger per kilo, where it counts: on the flats, the climbs and in the sprint.
Interference with riding
We work the minimal effective dose of everything off the bike: the least input for the most adaptation. It doesn't compete with your riding. It makes you recover into it faster.
Durability over time
Performance isn't one good block, it's years of doing the right things without breaking. Every injury or interruption costs you. The work keeps you delivering power more often: in a race, across a week, across a month, across a season, across a career.
Lapresse / RCSThe work behind the fastest sprint in the world.
Adaptation programs riders at the very top of the sport, including Lorena Wiebes, one of the most successful sprinters in women's cycling.
The same standard applied to her training is available to you, in the Elite package.
Lorena Wiebes, Team SD Worx-Protime
Trusted by riders at the top of the sport.
A selection of the riders Adaptation works with across the WorldTour and the pro peloton.
Riders with a result to chase.
From juniors to the WorldTour. The level changes what the program looks like. The standard behind it doesn't.
Sander Aelberts
Founder, Adaptation B.V.
A background built across disciplines: competitive road and mountain biking, the red beret of the Airmobile Brigade's para unit, and competition experience in CrossFit and weightlifting. He knows what performing under load actually demands.
Co-owner of CrossFit Nijmegen for over a decade, and a lecturer in Strength & Conditioning.
Instructor, trainer, coach and conditioning specialist across elite, performance and rehabilitation settings. That experience goes into every program. Today he works with athletes at the highest level, including Lorena Wiebes (Team SD Worx-Protime).
Daily coaching. Fully individual.
Intake & testing
Level, goals and calendar mapped. Strength profile tested as the baseline.
Your program
Built around you and synced to your riding through TrainingPeaks.
Daily adjustment
Adjusted every day to your progress, your season and your physical and mental state. Every day is different.
A monthly subscription. Not a fixed block that stalls after six weeks, but coaching that moves with you, every day.
Three levels. One standard.
All individual, all built on data, all cancellable monthly.
A personalized strength program, built to your profile and synced to your riding. The starting point for serious off-the-bike work.
Choose BasicCloser guidance and more frequent adjustment, structured tightly around your race calendar.
Choose AdvancedThe complete package for the highest ambitions. Maximum alignment with your progress, peak moments and daily state.
Choose EliteAll plans cancellable monthly. No lock-in beyond the month you're in.
Straight answers.
No, and this is where the programming is unique. The target training effect can be produced in any setting, from a full gym to a hotel room. There's never a reason to miss a session.
At this level you don't think in time, you think in commitment to quality. The strength work is complementary: it doesn't just fit alongside your riding, it makes your riding better.
Yes, that's the point. The strength work moves with the whole season, keeping you strong for the races that matter without building fatigue.
No. Every rider gets a different program, built around your body, your demands and your races. No template.
No. Adaptation works with riders across levels, from juniors to professionals. The program is always built to your level.
Yes. All plans are cancellable on a monthly basis.
Find the watts you've been leaving behind.
Built around you, delivered daily, applied at the level you're chasing. Start the conversation.
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