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The Coach
Builds fundamentals, consistency, progression, and execution athletes can repeat when the work gets hard.
01 / The Founder
The Coach Behind the System.
Coaching, cycling, leadership, data, systems thinking, and disciplined execution.
David Lipscomb is the founder of CIS Training Systems and the architect of THE SYSTEM™ 6×6 Framework. His work combines endurance coaching, performance data, systems thinking, leadership experience, and real-world execution.
For more than three decades, David has worked with athletes and leaders who want more than motivation. His focus is structure: understand what is happening, identify what matters most, build the right response, and develop the discipline to execute it consistently.
Cycling became the laboratory. Racing, training, coaching, and early adoption of virtual training platforms reinforced a simple truth: performance is rarely explained by one number. Power, heart rate, cadence, workload, fatigue, decision-making, and control all tell part of the story.
His executive background added another layer. Leadership, process, Six Sigma thinking, emotional intelligence, and execution under pressure became part of the same operating philosophy used in sport.
Today, those experiences come together in one standard: see what is happening, understand what it means, build the right response, and prove progress through execution.
02 / Experience Stack
Six Perspectives. One Throughline.
Each perspective represents a different part of David's experience. Together, they explain how he thinks, teaches, builds systems, and coaches.
02
The Cyclist
Brings decades of riding, racing, performance data, and practical development on the bike.
03
The Executive
Connects standards, leadership, systems thinking, accountability, and measurable outcomes under pressure.
04
The Author
Turns complex performance and leadership concepts into language people can understand and use.
05
The Practitioner
Values fundamentals, correction, repetition, composure, and mastery built through disciplined daily practice.
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The Systems Builder
Connects assessment, interpretation, decision-making, prescription, execution, and adaptation into one repeatable performance system.
03 / The Throughline
Performance Is Not One Number.
Data matters. Experience matters. Judgment matters. But none of them work alone. David's coaching brings the information together, identifies what actually matters, and turns it into a decision the athlete can execute.
It Is Not How Fast You Go.
It Is How You Go Fast.
04 / How He Coaches
See It. Understand It. Build It. Prove It.
Coaching is not the delivery of workouts. It is the continuous process of understanding the athlete, interpreting the response, and choosing what should happen next.
Assess.
Establish the athlete's current state, goals, strengths, constraints, and performance profile.
Interpret.
Read the data, execution, recovery, and athlete feedback together.
Prescribe.
Choose the work that addresses the priority that matters now.
Adapt.
Keep what is working. Correct what is not. Change the plan when the athlete's response changes.
05 / Work With Coach David
Founder-Level Coaching.
CIS Coaching can be delivered through the CIS coaching system and qualified CIS coaches. Direct access to David is different. His premium coaching lane is intentionally limited for athletes who need founder-level interpretation, intervention, and direct access.
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Direct Access. Limited.
High-touch founder-level coaching for athletes who want David directly involved in the interpretation, decision-making, and progression of their training.
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