Elite logs
Elite athletes’ own training, season by season, behind every session in the bank
Aristos is affordable, world-class training as a system, not a template. The system comes from elite athletes’ training logs, thousands of pages of elite running literature, and meticulous individual design tested on thousands of simulated athletes before a single rule shipped. An automated engine writes your block from your own bests and rewrites it as your season moves; a coach reviews it by hand. Together they deliver elite-level coaching at a cost that has not existed before.
Race performance is determined by two things: how much power you can produce, and how efficiently you turn that power into forward movement. Our system optimizes for both.
Through sustainable high-volume training coupled with efficiency work, we will build you a powerful and smooth engine. By avoiding incorrectly placed intensity, all of the pieces of the puzzle remain, creating versatile runners.
The weekly mileage total is a means to an end. In general we want it as high as we safely can — but a flat line at the same number, every week, is often worse than a total that moves with your feedback.
Placed well, those variations usually let an athlete accumulate more training over six to twelve months, not less.
The average is what compounds. The quota is just a number that ends on Sunday.
Hard training knocks you below where you started. Recover properly and you rebound above it — that rebound is the entire point of training. After a massive aerobic day at the end of a three-week block, a strategically placed extra day off can produce a bigger rebound than defending an arbitrary seven-day number ever would.
It answers the way we would — from our system, with your block in front of it.
The builder writes the block. A coach reviews it. Where George would coach it differently, he changes the session itself — what to run, how far, and why — and the change appears in your plan marked as his, with the reason in his words. Questions go to him directly, from your account, and he answers them himself.
Nothing about Aristos is generic, because generic, mediocre training does not lead to exceptional results.
Build a block →$19.99 a month, or $149 a year — about $12.40 a month billed annually, and the first month is free. Everything in the builder, updated as your season moves. Cancel any time.
First month free, then $19.99/month or $149/year. Founding athletes: the first 100 members get the first year for $99.
For runners 13+. Under 18 requires a parent or guardian to create the account and hold the membership. See the terms.
Teams, clubs and schools get a discount code for their athletes. Everyone keeps their own membership and applies the code at checkout — and everyone still gets their own plan, built from their own bests.
Your team’s discount code applies at checkout on each athlete’s own membership.
Fewer than ten? Train together anyway — shared plans, matched hard days and team chat work on individual memberships.