What we do.

• Specific. Protocols are matched to your individual training goals, whether they are increased climbing power, fast-twitch sprinting, sustained power output for triathlons or time trials, or all-around improved fitness for development or injury recovery.
• Measureable. Real-time data is continuously available throughout your workout, including sophisticated metrics that let you see exactly how you’re doing and how much energy you have left. After your session, workout reports are available within seconds for review by you and your coach.
• Acheivable. OBC does a full assessment of your available sustained wattage (“Critical Power,” also known as “Wattage Threshold,” or “Functional Threshold Power” or its acronym “FTP”) before your training starts. Depending on your Plan/level, we may test for MPA (Maximum Power Available) instead, which is both quicker and more precise.Then we match training intensity to your personal fitness level and goals. So you always get the right training intensity at the right times for the right durations to deliver the right results.
• Repeatable. OBC intervals are tough, but they’re also specific to your personal fitness and goals, so they’re not so tough they can’t be repeated. Spend time at certain levels of intensity, over and over, and your body will adapt to the strain and perform more easily at that level as you progress.
• Timely. As we like to say, Maximum results. Minimum Time. Guaranteed. Because the OBC training methodology is more precise, it can be more intense exactly when it’s needed. Which means you get more results in less training time.

Depending on the level of feedback you’re looking for, we can review and reprogram protocols and intensities to fit your changing fitness, schedules, and goals.

For example, if you’re a recreational rider who wants to improve seated hill climbs in the spring and then flat terrain in the fall, OBC can create custom programs to help you address those specific needs. The OBC methodology is that precise. And that specific. And that effective.

Online Bike Coach offers preselected workouts sorted by day and based on your current level of fitness and goals. Results are uploaded automatically to the Cloud so they’re instantly shared with your coach and always available for your reference.

Just as you would at Coach Wharton’s Dallas studio, you’ll get 8 weeks of programming based on your available hours and days. Because our methodology uses periodized high-load training to achieve results in as little as 2 sessions per week, it’s easy to integrate the OBC program with your work, study, racing or other training schedules.

Training with wattage technology lets you see progress in realtime: empirically, onscreen and as it happens.

Specifically, wattage-based training allows us to more accurately:

• Apply Stress, which is the work you’ll be performing inside different energy systems (measured in KiloJoules).
• Precisely match your training Focus to the specific type of rider you want to become, be it climber, triathlete/time-trialist, breakaway specialist, randonneur, or any combination.
• Determine how all of this Strain (the workload affecting your power and fatigue levels) is helping or hurting your power output.

Our best-in-class technology allows you to see performance breakthroughs in real time. If you’ve been training for 3-minute power, for instance, you’ll be able to see—and know—exactly how much more power you generated in that specific 3-minute effort, and exactly when the breakthrough happened. And when your session is automatically uploaded it to our software, your fitness profile will change…and so will your future workouts. So you get measurable progress, continued pursuit of goals, and best of all, results that matter.