Hunter Allen

Background

Legendary cycling coach, co-author of the watershed book  “ Training and Racing with a Power Meter ” and “ Cutting-Edge Cycling ”, co-developer of TrainingPeaks WKO+ software, and founder of Peaks Coaching Group.

Widely known as one of the top experts in the world in coaching endurance athletes using power meters, Hunter Allen is the founder of Peaks Coaching Group, co-founder of TrainingPeaks Software and has been instrumental in developing and spreading the power training principles. Hunter has traveled to over 20 countries and taught thousands of cycling coaches and riders the principles of power training. Hunter is a USA Cycling Level 1 coach, was the 2008 BMX technical coach for the Beijing Olympics and has taught the USA Cycling Power Certification Course since 2005. A former professional cyclist on the Navigators Team, Hunter has been coaching endurance athletes since 1995, and his athletes have achieved more than 2000 victories and numerous national, world championship titles and Olympic Medals. Hunter is known as the “Coaches Coach” and frequently has coaches from around the world consulting with him to learn more about the latest in cycling and triathlon training principles. He is a sought-after consultant for many endurance-oriented tech companies and has worked with numerous companies to develop products for the cycling world, including Ergomo power meters, iBike power meters, Cateye bike computers, the Leomo Type-R and the ICG indoor bike, the IC8 . 

Hunter's goal has always been to teach athletes how to maximize their training and racing potential through professional analysis of their power data. This goes hand in hand with his philosophy that a power meter helps athletes discover their true strengths and weaknesses, quantitatively assess their training improvements, and refine and maximize the focus of their training. Hunter firmly believes that power training can add a whole new dimension to your cycling. By using a power meter, you literally have a second-by-second training diary that allows your coach to not only see exactly what you do on your rides but also plan your training using the dose-and-response method. Hunter's power training method has built success at all levels of cycling and endurance sports, and he has trained such well-known professional and Olympic athletes as Jeremiah Bishop, Daniel Lloyd, Sue Haywood, Gawie Combrinck, Tomas Gil, Donny Robinson, Mike Day, Arielle Verharren, and Dan Fleeman 

A former professional cyclist for Team Navigators and has raced for over seventeen years, including BMX, MTB and Road. He raced in Europe, South America, the USA, and Canada and has over forty road victories to his credit. Considered a great all-rounder, he was able to learn a wide variety of race tactics and skill necessary to succeed at the professional level, a FTP of 410 didn’t hurt either...

For the past twenty years, PCG has been a leader in the industry in the field of power training for endurance cyclists of all levels. Hunter has mentored, taught over 200 coaches within PCG during this time and still spends his day working with the coaches of PCG. This unique opportunity has given Hunter the ability to review thousands of power files and racer profiles and develop an artful science of power training and coaching. During this time period he also co-developed TrainingPeaks' WKO software, coauthored the book, “ Training and Racing with a Power Meter ” with Dr. Andrew R. Coggan, coauthored the book “ Cutting Edge Cycling ” with Dr. Stephen Cheung, authored “ Training and Racing with a Motion Analysis Device-The Leomo Type-R” . “ Training and Racing with a Power Meter ” book has been translated into 8 languages and sold over 300,000 copies.   He has taught over 5000 coaches and athletes around the world in his in- person and online training courses. He designed, developed and taught the USA Cycling Power Certification course for coaches for over 10 years.

As a coach, Hunter makes sure to look at each athlete as a whole person. He excels at designing custom programs designed to maximize each rider's potential. He believes we are human beings working closely with other human beings, and it's important to him to work hard to find your strengths and weaknesses and to help you improve your skills, then develop a realistic plan that works for life. It is important that a coach learn as much as he can about you as an athlete and as a person in order to better develop a plan for success. He has now coached over 1000 athletes and still learns something new from each one.

Hunter holds a B.A. in Economics from Randolph-Macon College and lives in Bedford, Virginia, and has three young adult children, Thomas, Jack, and Susannah. He is a past certified yoga and tai chi instructor, and a past certified personal trainer. In his spare time, he enjoys driving, racing and tinkering with fast cars, hunting, fishing, and of course cycling around the world!