Chris Peden MSc - Strength & Conditioning Coach

Chris Peden MSc - Strength & Conditioning Coach Performance Coach to Professional & Amateur Endurance Athletes
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Today I turn 44. Single. Never married. One daughter who’s now old enough to chase her own dreams. Working my dream job....
04/08/2026

Today I turn 44. Single. Never married. One daughter who’s now old enough to chase her own dreams. Working my dream job. Living in one of the best cities in the world and trying to make the most of every opportunity to enjoy life to its fullest.

I’m not saying that to gloat or look for sympathy. Some of it is by design, but that doesn’t mean I’ve got everything figured out.

I still have my own insecurities. I still doubt myself. I still question the decisions I make and wonder what might be next.

I haven’t always made the right choices, but I’ve always believed it’s better to regret a decision you made than spend your life wondering, what if?

It’s why I take chances. It’s why I get to live in Barcelona and do what I love.

So, for all the ups and downs, life is good.

And for the first time, I can honestly say I know exactly what I want out of life.

When that’ll happen though is one of life’s little mysteries 😆

Here’s to finding out. Salud 🖤

Traditional S&C falls apart in a Sport that never stops Racing.Not the training itself, the way we traditionally have be...
23/07/2026

Traditional S&C falls apart in a Sport that never stops Racing.

Not the training itself, the way we traditionally have been told to view and programme it.

GPP, Strength Endurance, Maximal Strength, Power, Peak, Maintain.

It’s a model that assumes one thing riders these days very rarely get…

Long, uninterrupted blocks of training before making it count in competition.

Amateur or professional, modern racing doesn’t give you that. Riders these days are competing almost year round.

Indoors or out, seasons have got longer and the off seasons shorter.

You can’t just drop a rigid blocks of training into a calendar like that. There’s no clean window to phase.

The moment you start to plan it, something gets in the way and changes it.

So here’s a question I keep coming back to. How do you actually develop and prepare a rider off the bike when they never stop racing?

Do you need to build a quality and if you do, when can that happen? Or do you just need to maintain health to survive a season?

That’s the problem I’m continuously working on and it’s not always just as simple as saying you must go to the gym as a cyclist.

I think you have to have a different way of looking at the whole thing and understand what’s the most appropriate way of approaching programming and athletic development it at this moment in time.

If you’re a rider and you’re living this problem, let’s talk. Comment or DM me the word UNSTOPPABLE to find out how you can be managed in a smarter way so your performance doesn’t drop.

Absolute Scenes 🙌🏻🥹What a privilege and honour to be a small part of this win 🥇
09/07/2026

Absolute Scenes 🙌🏻🥹

What a privilege and honour to be a small part of this win 🥇

Cyclists… Strength training research isn’t the answer. It’s part of the answer.If coaching was as simple as blindly appl...
08/07/2026

Cyclists… Strength training research isn’t the answer. It’s part of the answer.

If coaching was as simple as blindly applying research, everyone would get the same results.

A Cycling S&C study might use an 8–16 week Max Strength block with specific exercises, sets and reps.

But that’s a short snapshot in time, in a controlled setting, with a specific group of riders under specific conditions.

That’s not the reality of managing an athlete across an entire year.

It doesn’t account for your training age, movement skill, travel, training and race schedules, accumulated fatigue, injuries, work, family, stress or poor sleep.

Research answers the question, Can this work under controlled conditions?

Coaching answers the question, Is this appropriate for this athlete, right now?

Research helps shape our thinking and shows us that S&C benefits endurance performance.

But it shouldn’t replace good coaching, good programming or the ability to manage an athlete in the real world.

That’s why I aim to be evidence informed, not someone who blindly applies research.

The gap between the lab and the road is where good coaching makes the difference for results to happen.

If you want a tried and tested coaching system that’s helped cyclists build strength to improve their performance on the bike, comment or DM UNSTOPPABLE to find out more.

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