in partnership with Welcome Forgot your password ? I came up with the idea of creating Mapei Sport Cycling Trainer when I realised that I was so busy following the training programmes and, later, the management of the MAPEI professional cycling team, that I didn’t have enough time to personally assist the countless lovers of cycling who wanted to train by following one of my own personalised programmes. So, with the invaluable help of the entire staff at Sport Service MAPEI – and in partnership with Lexicon, thanks to whom we were able to launch the system on the internet – we developed a project to design the software, with the aim of creating a system which was able to programme training according to my own method. This was the same method which I developed shortly before becoming head of training for Francesco Moser’s one hour record attempt (Mexico City, 1984), and which I then perfected in the following years, especially from 1996 to 2002 when I was head of training for the professional cyclists in the MAPEI group. Even though there is always room for improvement, the result of the project went well beyond my expectations, thanks also to the constant development in the know-how and technology applied to training, of which I feel we have also played an important part. The enthusiasm of everybody involved in the project – technicians, medical staff and, above all, the athletes themselves - was also fundamental, the same group of people which, even now, is working on this project which is in continuous evolution. In the MCT training programmes, I sincerely hope that everybody will recognise the characteristics which have always been at the root of my style of operating when programming training: essentiality, dictated by scientific rationality, which is placed before all forms of creativity which have no concrete physiological basis. This is the philosophy which I have always applied to my work and which I still apply today, whether with the numerous athletes who have created history in cycling in the last 20 years, or with younger athletes or simply those who cycle for pleasure or to keep fit. The same philosophy on which the MCT is based”. Aldo Sassi – Trainer – Head of Sport Service MAPEI Cycling Trainer Mapei Sport is a project realized by MAPEI Sport in partnership with Lexicon Digital Solutions Mapei Sport was founded in 1996 to support athletes of MAPEI professional cycling team as well as its satellite teams. Then, it has expanded its experience to sportsmen by proposing training programs and tests for sport and wellbeing. Currently, the activity of the Center is developed around three important areas: Assistance for sport, Applied research, Sports culture. Lexicon Digital Media has been dealing with new media for communication since 1992 by realizing projects for companies and institutions. Lexicon Digital Media designs innovative solutions by using the opportunities offered by digital media and creates, in this way, a communication language between the business world and the market.