Online coaching has a credibility problem. Most programmes sell a PDF plan dressed up as personalised coaching, and athletes buy them without knowing the difference until six months in. The result is wasted money and, worse, wasted training time that could have been pointed at something that actually works.
Not Done Yet is Roadman Cycling's coaching programme. It costs $195 a month, it's 1:1, and it's built around five pillars: training, nutrition, strength, recovery, and accountability. This review is not a sales page. It covers what members say works, what could be better, who the programme is genuinely built for, and where its real limitations sit.
If you're weighing up whether to apply for Not Done Yet or keep self-coaching with a training app, read this first.
What Not Done Yet actually includes
Not Done Yet is a fully personalised 1:1 coaching programme. There is no cohort, no group plan, no off-the-shelf block with your name on it. Every training plan is built from your current fitness, your race calendar, your weekly hours, and your life schedule.
The five pillars are not just marketing language. In practice:
Training means structured, periodised sessions delivered through TrainingPeaks, updated weekly based on how the previous week actually went. There is no set-and-forget. If you had a bad week at work and missed three sessions, the plan changes.
Nutrition covers both daily fuelling strategy and race-day execution. The work here draws on well-established research — Asker Jeukendrup's carbohydrate oxidation data underpins the 90-120g/hour fuelling targets used for longer efforts, and gut training protocols are built into the programme for athletes who struggle with high-carbohydrate intake in race conditions.
Strength is integrated into the training load, not bolted on as an afterthought. Most online programmes either ignore strength entirely or hand you a generic gym plan. Not Done Yet schedules strength work relative to key sessions, so you are not doing heavy squats the day before a threshold interval session.
Recovery includes sleep, stress load, and HRV-guided adjustments. The programme takes recovery seriously as a training input, not just the absence of riding.
Accountability is the check-in structure. Weekly reviews, direct coach contact, and the expectation that you show up and report honestly. This is the pillar most members say they underestimated before joining. You can read more about the full structure on the coaching overview page.
What members say (real quotes)
The best test of any coaching programme is what the athletes inside it say after six or twelve months — not the testimonials cherry-picked for a sales page, but the honest version.
Damien joined Not Done Yet after two years of self-directed training that produced minimal progress. His assessment was direct: "I was training hard but not training smart. Within eight weeks the structure alone changed my numbers. I'd been riding myself into the ground every session because nobody was telling me to back off."
Daniel, a long-course triathlete, came in with a specific problem: he was blowing up on the run at every race. "The bike pacing work was the thing that fixed my season. I'd been riding 15-20 watts too hard on the bike and had nothing left. Anthony built out a power-based race plan and I ran 18 minutes faster at my next race without changing my run training at all."
Brian had tried two other online coaching programmes before Not Done Yet. "The difference is that someone actually looks at your data every week. The other programmes I did, I could have sent in fake data and nobody would have noticed. Here, if your power numbers don't match what you should be producing, there's a conversation."
David Lundy, who came to the programme targeting a specific gran fondo, highlighted the accountability component: "I'm not the kind of person who self-motivates consistently. Knowing I have to report in every week changed my behaviour. I didn't want to show up having skipped four sessions and have to explain why."
Consistency is the thread that runs through all of it. Not Done Yet is not a programme that promises to make you faster in 30 days. It is built on the principle, well-documented in Prof. Stephen Seiler's polarised training research, that sustained, consistent training over months and years produces more durable adaptation than any short-term intervention.
The five pillars in practice
Understanding what the five pillars look like day-to-day matters more than how they sound on paper.
Training is the most visible pillar. You will receive sessions that are specific — not "go for an easy 90 minutes" but defined intensity, defined duration, defined purpose. Zone 2 work makes up the majority of most members' training volume, which surprises athletes who come expecting to be punished with hard sessions every week. This is intentional. Seiler's research consistently shows elite athletes spend approximately 80% of their training time at low intensity. Most amateur athletes invert that ratio and wonder why they are chronically fatigued.
The nutrition pillar is where many members report the steepest learning curve. Most cyclists underestimate their carbohydrate needs during training. Jeukendrup's research established that the ceiling for exogenous carbohydrate oxidation is around 90g/hour with multiple transportable carbohydrates (glucose plus fructose in roughly a 2:1 ratio), and hitting that ceiling requires systematic gut training. Members work toward those targets progressively, not all at once.
Strength work within the programme typically involves two sessions per week in the base phase, reducing to one maintenance session closer to target events. The sessions are short — 30 to 45 minutes — and focused on movements that transfer directly to cycling performance: single-leg work, hip hinge patterns, and posterior chain loading.
Recovery is monitored through a combination of self-reported metrics and, for members using compatible hardware, HRV data. The key shift for most members is treating recovery as a variable that changes the training prescription, not something to power through.
Accountability runs underneath all four other pillars. The weekly check-in is not optional and not cosmetic. It is where the programme gets adjusted based on real-world data rather than theoretical planning. If you have ever used a self-directed plan and quietly skipped sections when life got busy, you will understand why this pillar matters. For a broader look at whether structured coaching produces measurable returns, the piece on is coaching worth it covers the evidence in detail.
Who it's NOT for
Not Done Yet is not for everyone, and being honest about that matters.
If you are a complete beginner — someone who has been cycling for less than a year, does not own a power meter, and is still building basic aerobic fitness — this programme is more than you need right now. The level of data analysis and plan specificity requires a minimum baseline of training history to be useful. A beginner will get more value from six months of consistent unstructured riding before adding coaching structure.
If you want a cheap training plan with no human interaction, Not Done Yet is the wrong product. There are excellent automated platforms available at a fraction of the cost. The TrainerRoad vs a coach comparison breaks down when app-based training is the right call and when it is not. If you are self-motivated, data-literate, and do not need accountability, a quality app may genuinely serve you better.
If you are not willing to do weekly check-ins or report honestly on your training, the programme will not work. The accountability pillar requires active participation. A member who submits vague check-ins and ignores coach feedback is paying $195 a month for a plan that nobody is optimising.
Triathletes who only want swim and run coaching will find the programme is not the right fit either. Not Done Yet specialises in the bike leg and the intersection of bike pacing with run protection. It is not a full triathlon coaching service covering all three disciplines in equal depth.
Finally, if your goal is short-term peaking for a single event in the next four weeks, the programme is not structured for quick-turnaround interventions. The training philosophy is long-term. Results compound over months, not weeks.
Pricing: is $195/month worth it?
$195 per month works out to roughly $6.50 per day. That context matters when you are evaluating it against alternatives.
In-person coaching, where it exists, typically runs $100 to $300 per session. At one session per week, that is $400 to $1,200 per month. Not Done Yet provides more touchpoints than a single weekly session — plan updates, check-ins, direct communication, and data review happen continuously.
Generic online training plans cost $30 to $100 as a one-time purchase. They are not personalised, they do not adjust to your life, and nobody reviews your data. For a self-motivated, experienced rider who executes consistently, they can work. For athletes who have tried them and plateaued, they represent a false economy.
Other 1:1 online coaching programmes exist in the $150 to $350 per month range. Not Done Yet sits in the mid-range of that bracket. The question is not whether $195 is a lot of money in absolute terms — it is whether the combination of personalised training, nutrition guidance, strength integration, recovery monitoring, and weekly accountability produces a return that justifies it.
The member data suggests yes, but with a caveat: the return is proportional to engagement. Members who show up consistently, do their check-ins, and execute their sessions get the most from the programme. Members who treat it passively get proportionally less.
One practical note: there is no long-term contract. You are not locked in. That lowers the risk of trying the programme and discovering it is not the right fit.
The honest weaknesses
Every coaching programme has weaknesses. Here are Not Done Yet's.
The programme is built around one coach. Anthony Walsh reviews the data, adjusts the plans, and runs the check-ins. That creates depth and consistency, but it also creates a capacity ceiling. Not Done Yet does not scale like a coaching platform with dozens of staff, which means member numbers are limited. If the programme is full, there is a waitlist.
For athletes who want deep, frequent communication — daily messages, multiple touchpoints per week, real-time session feedback — the current structure may feel insufficient. The check-in cadence is weekly by design, not daily. Riders used to higher-touch coaching relationships should factor that in.
The programme does not currently include swim or run coaching for triathletes beyond the bike-to-run interface. Triathlete members who need integrated multisport programming across all three disciplines will need to source swim and run coaching separately.
The nutrition pillar, while evidence-based and practically useful, does not include individual microbiome analysis or the kind of deeply personalised dietary profiling that researchers like Tim Spector at ZOE focus on. The nutrition guidance is performance-focused and carbohydrate-centric, which is appropriate for endurance sport but may feel generic to athletes who have already done detailed individual nutrition work.
Finally, the programme requires a power meter and a basic willingness to engage with training data. If you ride by feel and have no interest in structured metrics, much of the value of the programme is inaccessible to you.
Those are real limitations, not catastrophic ones. For the athlete this programme is built for — a committed amateur with training history, a target event, and a willingness to be coached — Not Done Yet delivers what it promises. If you think that describes you, the starting point is to apply for Not Done Yet and have the conversation.