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PASSION + EFFICIENCY = EXCELLENCE EFFICIENCY COACHING
   
 
Would you like to ride stronger and race faster? Break through to the next level of fitness? Stay up with those group rides? Do you have limited time to train? To achieve these desires most cyclists will spend 3 to 8+ hours a week riding their bikes. However, their training tends to be unstructured, even random, and ultimately inefficient. If you truly want to optimize your fitness, then efficiency coaching will add structure to those random hours that you are ALREADY investing, and yield a much greater return! You don’t have to be a professional level athlete to be coached. Coaching is for anyone willing to apply proven training techniques to their existing riding hours. Anyone at any level of fitness can enjoy the optimization that this structure delivers. Everyone from a 3 day a week commuter to the serious athlete can adopt these techniques and see a huge increase in performance. Are you ready to optimize your training?
     
         
  You supply the Passion, we’ll supply the Efficiency, and together we’ll achieve Excellence!      
         
  Efficiency Coaching provides:      
 
The most comprehensive and economical coaching in Southern California!
2-hour live initial consultation.
At least one on bike observation ride with your coach.
Unlimited weekly e-mail check-ins and updates with your coach.
Up to 2 hours/month on the phone to answer questions.
A precision built weekly training schedule customized to accommodate your specific physiology and objectives.
The benefits of all our nutrition research for both on and off the bike.
Access to Efficiency Coaching proprietary training packet and online resources
   
     
  Here is what you’ll provide:      
 
A passion for peak fitness
Bicycle(s), road, mountain, or both types
Heart rate monitor
Time to train at least 3 days a week.
   
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Prices listed below are for a limited time only. Offer good through 8/30/2010.

Premier Package: Three month training commitment. Investment is only $300 $150 per month for three months. Or, can be paid all up front for only $870 $400. This is the recommended package as you will receive proprietary workouts designed to accommodate the dynamic increases in your fitness.

Ongoing: After completing the Premier Package, the cost of ongoing coaching is only $300 $115/mo.

Optional Quick Start Program: One month training commitment. The investment is only $375 $185 and includes everything above for the duration of one Month.

Ala Carte: A single 1- hour face to face or on the phone coaching session that includes EC’s proprietary training packet and your custom designed workout schedule. Only $60.
 


Please ask about our Over The Hump Race Series & local event specials- the deals are so good, they cannot be listed here on the website! This is a one-time fee that will coach you all the way through your events!

Other Services include:

Professional Bike Fit:  Every cyclist should be fit to their bike in order to fully optimize the power transfer to the pedals.  Supreme fitness in a compromised position is grossly inefficient. In one session you can solve the bike fit mystery and finally be in the optimal position! Only $125.

Full Nutritional Review:  In cycling it is all about two things: strength to weight ratio (or watts/kilogram) & your ability to recover. Eating at the optimal time, in the optimal amount, from the Best food sources will be taught during your Full Nutritional Review. Learn to fuel your recovery and get leaner AT THE SAME TIME. Demystify nutrition and your performance once and for all. $80/ 2 hour session.

Motor Pacing:  a 1-2 hour session tailored to elite level road racers. Meet at Cooks Corner in Santiago Canyon on an appointment bases only.  $50/ Session.

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Efficiency Coaching is Proud to announce the following product alliances. Please ask us about “preferred” pricing.

Trigon Bicycles - click to view website

“After about 6 rides on this RQC929 proto-type road bike, I am discovering it can be "about the bike". Sorry Lance, but when the bike is lighter, stiffer, and road compliant to perfection, it IS ABOUT the bike! I can't help but over train, you just want to PUNCH IT all the time! Having a major rush....” - Craig Hopps

iBike Power Meters - click to view website

“Training with power has two problems; weight and cost. Power equipment is typically heavy and amazingly expensive. Plus, you may like your cranks and rear wheel the way it is- light! iBike solves both problems. At 62 grams it is the lightest power solution on the market. It also happens to be the least expensive. And the best part, it is extremely accurate! Light, Affordable, and Accurate- problems solved. iBike just revolutionized riding with power!”
Coach Craig Hopps
Efficiency Coaching

   
     
 
Efficiency Coaching / Mission Viejo, Ca Craig Hopps: 949-331-5017 | efficiencycoaching@cox.net
     
 

What clients are saying:


From Outside Blog: click to view!

Heidi Volpe – “Seems like you are enjoying your new coach? Why Him?”

Sid Taberlay- “Craig at Efficiency Coaching is great, I kind a knew of him through Scott Tedro but had no contact until I received a call one day, an hour and some more later I was left wondering how I had just spent so much time on the phone? Craig's knowledge from everything from training to nutrition to the understanding of sports mentality was insane! I've never met anyone who was so close to my wave length with all of that stuff. It became a no brainer to having more contact. It actually became scary, he sent me over his training plan, and (without knowing what I did) it was so close to exactly what I do I couldn't believe it. Even his example heart rates were on the money! Like most things in life, it wasn't planned, it just happened.”
Sid looks back, and again, no one is there!
 Craig and Sid enjoying the ride!
5 time Australian National Champion, Athen’s Olympian, & World Championship Medalist

“Craig Hopps’ (Efficiency Coaching) personal and professional experience and knowledge is clearly evident.  He personally tests every method and product.  He quickly recognized my needs and customized a programs to help me succeed.  His passion for my improvement is contagious and motivating and will no doubt play a large part in my advancement for years to come.” - Josh K.

“All I can say is WOW regarding the results I have gotten from your training program. Recently, I competed in the Over The Hump Race Series.  After looking over my finish times between the first two races, I noticed I had improved more than 3 minutes. On a short 11 mile course, 3 minutes is a huge improvement. Considering that the two races were only about 2 weeks apart, that is quite an improvement in such a short period of time.” - Bow L., Mission Viejo, CA

“How does a 44 year old guy who isn't in the best of health go from being a casual weekend rider and the last man out on group rides to six months later placing 3rd in his first race series? Two words; Efficiency Coaching. I can't thank you enough Craig for your time, support and insight regarding not only my riding, but my overall health. I have lost 15 pounds on your program, feel better than I have in over 15 years and can now call myself something I thought I couldn't at this point in my life. A "competitor".
Thank you so very much.” - Devin B.

“I purchased my second road bike of my life this past July, the first was back in 1975.  During the buying process I asked some different sales people at Rock N Road Cyclery in southern California if they knew of someone that can help me get going.  The one name that kept coming up was Craig Hopps at Efficiency Coaching.  I called Craig and set up a ride and coaching session.  At 47 years old, married with 3 kids, I needed to get the most bang out of my training I could get.  The program Craig has me on is attainable with my life's schedule, and tough, I like it, I'm very challenged.  I have yet to get that look from my wife too. I cannot overemphasize the importance of having someone coaching you and getting the most out of you.  We all need accountability, and to have someone with the background and character Craig has is invaluable.   I'm truly excited about my gains!” - Steve L. Santa Margarita CA

“Craig Hopps at Efficiency Coaching has combined diet and equipment advice with a personalized workouts to optimize results and maximize gain.  Craig has taken me from a casual rider at 50 (last one up the hill) to finishing the counting coup in mid field and feeling great at the end.  What Craig brings to the table is the coaching experience, knowledge and mental game plan to succeed, wether it's being the first to the finish line or just feeling great at the end of the day.  In all honesty craig, training with you has changed my life and fitness to levels I would have not envisioned or achieved on my own. Thanks!” - Peter Baciu Laguna Niguel CA