Full-time professional cycling coach, Alex Simmons, Performance Director Richard Stern Training, overseas the coaching aspects of the Turbo Studio and prepares the training programmes that are executed throughout your month-long block.

Sessions are rotated to add variety and are designed to boost your cycling specific fitness, lift your power at threshold and help you ride faster, for longer! Alex is a popular rider amongst the Sydney track, road and criterium-racing scene (especially in his Masters level Divisions).

An accredited Cycling Australia Coach, Commissaire and regular track and road cycling competitor himself, Alex’s recent cycling success includes winning a State Championship title in the Teams Pursuit (his favourite event) and making the podium at National Masters Track, State Criterium and Team Time Trial Championships. Following an accident in 2007 which resuted in a lower leg amputation, Alex has made a successful return to competitive bike racing including the World Masters Track Championships and is a dual Oceania Paralympic Road Cycling Champion and dual Silver Medalist at the Austraian Paralympic Road Racing Championships.

Well known on the public cycle training forums as an advocate of racing and training with power meters, Alex regularly provides advice and insight into the use and application of the latest power analysis tools and is a proponent of scientific and professionally-based coaching principles. He holds a Bachelors Degree from the ANU (Mathematics, Physics) and writes for an e-magazine group Velosportz Media and Bike Radar.

Alex coaches riders from the UK, Europe, USA and Australia including riders seeking to get into better shape for Etape and club tour events, club and Masters level racers in track, road and criterium racing disciplines looking to nail their local events and championships, through to elite/Category 1 riders seeking National Team Selection. Alex's clients have attained World and National Championship wins as well as setting a new World Record.

After branding, owning and operating a cycling tour company in partnership Joanne Palazzetti has ventured further afield. Expanding on the concept of a previously owned and successful indoor training centre, the Turbo Studio is a combination of her love for cycling and a great enthusiasm and dedication to her customers and the service and value they receive.

Joanne is also one of the original founders of the Eastern Suburbs Junior Sports Academy, one of the largest junior cycling programmes in Australia. Having earned a solid reputation based on a great quote "Organization is not an option, it is a fundamental survival skill and distinct competitive advantage" Joanne decided to create a dedicated indoor training centre for cyclists and triathletes providing a great faciity for the sporting community.

Combining her ‘know how’ from her previous business ventures with the professional coaching expertise of Alex Simmons results in the perfect mix.