Strength & Conditioning: USA Cycling Course

Strength training for endurance athletes is one of the most powerful ways to improve performance. This course shows coaches how to recognize common strength imbalances, design year-round programs, and recommend functional strength work.

Strength training is powerful medicine to improve endurance performance, but athletes take it with reluctance or avoid it entirely. Yet top strength coaches like Erin Carson and Jess Elliott and researchers like Dr. Stacey Brickson know that strength training generates power and durability.

Our online course “Strength and Conditioning,” shows coaches how to integrate strength work into your athlete’s programs so they can ride stronger, avoid injury, and perform at their best all season.

See how to:

• Recognize and correct common imbalances in cyclists, such as quad dominance and upper/lower cross syndrome.
• Design year-round strength programs with clear examples of off-season progressions, in-season maintenance, and race-week routines.
• Apply proven methods from experts like Jess Elliott, Dr. Stacey Brickson, and Erin Carson on mobility, stability, core function, and heavy lifting for endurance athletes.
• Use practical warm-ups, regressions, and exercise variations—like movement literacy drills—that transfer directly into improved efficiency and durability on the bike.

This course equips you to guide athletes from basic movements to more advanced strength training at any time of the year. You’ll come away with a framework to see your athletes move better, recover faster, and perform with more power and confidence.

How to Enroll

All USA Cycling courses are offered exclusively through USA Cycling’s online learning management system at learn.usacycling.org.

Questions? Contact Suzy Sanchez, Director of DEI and Membership Programs, at ssanchez@usacycling.org.