Apps deliver the work.
Coaching writes it.

No. We use TrainingPeaks — Roadman is a partner, the Vekta-built plans inside Not Done Yet Coaching push directly into your TrainingPeaks calendar, and most members keep their existing Zwift, Strava, Whoop and Garmin set-up. The coaching is the interpretation layer on top of the tools you already have. If you don't have TrainingPeaks Premium yet, you'll want it; if you do, you'll use it the way it was actually designed to be used.

Because the apps are doing what they're supposed to do — they're showing you the numbers, the workouts, and the calendar. They're not deciding what should change when a block isn't working. The most expensive thing in your training isn't the app stack; it's a year of training that didn't move your FTP. Coaching is the line item that makes the others actually pay back. If your numbers have been flat for 18 months, you don't need another app — you need someone reading the apps you already have.

It can do part of the job — it's genuinely good at progressing a workout difficulty curve and detecting an FTP shift from indoor sessions. What it can't do is decide whether the right answer this Tuesday is to back off because your sleep tanked, swap the prescribed VO2 block for sweet spot because your A-event moved, or call you on the phone when you're three weeks from a goal race and the file says one thing but the chat says another. Adaptive software is a useful piece of the stack. It's not the layer above it.

Two things, usually. One: most generalist coaching plans are templates with a name on them. Roadman plans are built off two decades of reading masters cyclists who train around real lives, and the conversations Anthony has had with the coaches who sit behind the World Tour — Dan Lorang, Stephen Seiler, Joe Friel, David Lipman, Derek Teel, David Dunne. Two: you get the strength roadmap, the fuelling guidance, and the community of riders running the same system, not just a calendar. If your current coach is delivering on those, stay with them — that's a working set-up. If they're not, the Plateau Diagnostic is a four-minute way to see what's actually missing.

A power meter on the bike — outside or inside — is the single highest-leverage purchase a serious cyclist makes after a working bike. A smart trainer matters if your weather, schedule, or family pattern means you're indoors a lot. If you only have heart rate, you can still train well; the prescription just has to lean on RPE and HR, and the load tracking is fuzzier. The Coaching membership doesn't require either, but it gets a lot more precise once you have power.

A representative serious-amateur stack runs roughly: TrainingPeaks Premium $19.95, Zwift $19.99, Strava Premium $11.99, Whoop $30 — about $82/mo before coaching. Add Not Done Yet Coaching at $195/mo and you're at roughly $277/mo, or about $9 a day. The benchmark question isn't whether $9 a day is a lot — it's whether the year of training you're paying for is moving you forward. If it isn't, the cheapest thing in the stack is the one that decides what changes.

A lot of riders do — and the free archive is genuinely the most-cited resource members reference once they're inside the paid programme. The two things self-coaching can't give you are the second pair of eyes on your specific data and the accountability that holds the block together when life gets in the way. If you're early in the work, self-coach with the free archive. If you've been doing it for years and your FTP has stalled, the diagnostic at /plateau will tell you which of four common patterns you're caught in.

It's built for serious amateur cyclists across road, gravel, and increasingly long-format gran fondo and ultra. There's a separate triathlon coaching track for athletes whose primary goal is a multisport event. If you're not sure, the five-question Find Your Fit quiz routes you to the right product without a sales call.