One-on-One Coaching A one-on-one coaching plan is a personal service for the busy, goal-oriented athlete. I work with a very limited number of one-on-one athletes to ensure a high quality of service. The process begins with you filling out a number of information-gathering forms including health history, racing history, athletic goals, mental skills profile, natural abilities profile, available equipment, available facilities and a one day log of fuel intake. In addition to these forms, I request a copy of your last six weeks of training. After reviewing all of the information, I assemble a list of questions to ask you in our initial discovery conversation. This conversation usually takes between 90 and 120 minutes.
After I know details about your personal history, goals and racing limiters, I design a custom training plan to optimize your fitness and workout time. In my business, a "custom training plan" means custom. You will not find pre-built training weeks administered to multiple athletes, like you will find with other coaching services claiming "custom training." I have never written two custom schedules alike, even if two athletes have the same set of goal events. You deserve a premium product.
The plan is administered online so you have easy access to a multitude of tools, including device downloads, and I can monitor your progress frequently. You receive regular feedback maintained by email and/or phone. Contact with me is unlimited and phone calls within the United States are included in the fee.
This premium, personal service is $250 Start-up fee and $3000 prepaid for six months (or $550 month-to-month). Prepayment is fully refundable at any time on a prorated schedule.
To inquire about the current availability of this service, contact me at gale@galebernhardt.com.
See testimonials from just a few one-on-one athletes below.
Pre-built Training PlansFor some athletes, a one-on-one service does not fit their needs. If this is the case for you, know that many athletes have found success utilizing one of my books containing detailed training plans or pre-built online training plans. Self-coached athletes use the plans exactly as they appear, or use the plan as a skeleton and modify the plan to meet individual needs.
ConsultingTelephone meetings to any of your training questions are available for $125 per hour or $75 per 30 minutes. I request that you send me a list of your basic questions ahead of the scheduled meeting to optimize your time.
Testimonials from One-on-One Athletes
Nicole Freedman, 2001 US National Criterium Champion, 2000 US National Road Champion and 2000 US Olympic Team Members says,
"Freedman credits her coach, Gale Bernhardt, for her recent successes.'She's perfect,' Freedman claimed.'We bounce ideas off of each other. I didn't want anyone who didn't understand my body isn't textbook at all. She's the first person that understands that. You can't fling an engineered program at me. I think it's neat she reads my body well. She observed that when I rested, my body did this or that and didn't assume she'd know how it would react.' " (VeloNews, September 29, 2000, Vol. 29, ""Gale is my dream coach. She is knowledgeable, supportive and truly cares about all her athletes. I still don't know how she does it, but before some of my largest races, she tracks me down at host families across the country to chat, give me confidence and wish me good luck. She has been instrumental in my success and achieving my goals. We talk a lot by phone and through email." (ProCycling News, August 9, 2002 dailypeloton.com)
Jim Green, 58, 2001 USA Triathlon World Championship Team Long Course Qualifier says,
"I chose Gale Bernhardt as a Coach, due to her ability to analyze the literature in the endurance training and competing arena. Gale can take the prevalent science and put a workout and training plan together utilizing this information. The method of training for triathlons has changed dramatically in the past 10 years. It used to be that one would go out and train one's self into the ground, rest a day, and go do it again. When I trained this old way, I would stay broken down, irritated and hard to live with. When I follow Gale's schedule, I actually feel recovered and look forward to workouts. The times for my events have dropped dramatically, and as a result, I made the World's Team in my age group for the first time this year. Of course I'm still hard to live with but that is probably unrelated to my Coach."
Cathy Sloan, 47, Life-Long Athlete Seeking Continuous Improvement says,
"Gale, as you know, fitness is a way of life for me and I always want to be as fit as possible. Your individualized schedule for me has evolved constantly over the years (since 1995!) to keep pace with my goals, new activities and personal life. Last year I completed one of my life-goals, an ironman race. Through the years, instead of competing in only triathlons, I'm now interested in the fun and challenge of trying new events and sports such as the 50k trail run, climbing Colorado's 14'ers with my husband, hunting and backpacking in the wilderness backcountry, snowshoeing, cross-country skiing and my latest endeavor into the world of hunt seat equitation and jumping. Your development of equitation specific weight training, a balance regimen and core-body strengthening has helped me progress at an unusually fast pace. Your idea of continuing to train as a multisport athlete—a triathlete—has proven to be a good way to keep a strong base and a superb fitness level that I can draw on to enable me to enjoy all my activities. Without your guidance I doubt I would be able to comfortably participate in such a variety of activities without hurting myself. Who knows what direction we'll take next! Thank you for the help."
Eric Houck, 45, Ultra-endurance Runner, Triathlete says,
"I've been a distance runner since 1972, starting triathlons in 1986. In 2000 I turned to ultra-marathons. I was going OK, but wanted to do better. After trying to coach myself, with limited success, I needed to train smarter not just run harder. So I turned to Gale for help. She gave me workouts that were fun and cutting edge. She taught me how to use my heart rate monitor correctly and incorporate the best weight training plan into the endurance training. What I have learned will help my train for many years to come."
Scott Ellis, 43, Leadville 100 Mountain Bike, La Ruta de los Conquistadores Racer says,
I began working with Gale when I realized that I couldn't reach my racing goals by training the way I was training. I was strictly self-taught, basing what I did on magazine articles and advice from other riders. I was doing okay, but I knew that I wasn't riding up to my potential.
When I started with Gale, she first had me develop realistic goals for the upcoming season. She then had me take an inventory of my strengths and weaknesses. Using this information and taking into account my work and family obligations, Gale developed a training plan customized for me. This plan made the most out of the time I had available, with each training session having a specific purpose. Knowing what this purpose was, I looked forward to the workouts and didn't want to miss a single one.
Gale had me pay attention and track how I felt each day to determine how I was responding to the training. She made adjustments to the plan, accordingly. She kept in contact throughout, making sure that what I was doing was working for me.
Gale also helped me nail down my nutritional needs for long races, something that I hadn't been able to do previously.
Gale is top notch. Her knowledge amazes me. She's been able to answer any question I've asked and always gives me great advice. Without reservation, I would recommend her to anyone who wants to take their cycling to a higher level. With Gales help, I'm now riding stronger and faster than ever and I am much more confident in my abilities. I'm also enjoying cycling more than ever.
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