Printable Biography of Chris Carmichael

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Chris Carmichael is the founder, CEO, and President of Carmichael Training Systems and personal coach to cancer survivor and six-time Tour de France Champion Lance Armstrong. Chris formed CTS in 1999 after spending more than two decades in the sport of cycling.

In 2004, Colorado’s Celebrate Technology Coalition named Carmichael Entrepreneur of the Year. Soon after he was honored with the USA Cycling Lifetime Achievement Award. Carmichael was inducted into the U.S Bicycling Hall of Fame in May 2003, and has been honored as the United States Olympic Committee’s (USOC) Coach of the Year. He served as the cycling coach during the 1992 and 1996 Olympics and athletes under his direction have won 33 Olympic, World Championships and Pan American Games medals.

• Author of New York Times Bestseller Chris Carmichael’s Food For Fitness: Eat Right to Train Right, The Ultimate Ride, and co-author of The Lance Armstrong Performance Program, with Lance Armstrong
• Carmichael’s unique “Train Right” TM methods have been featured on NBC Nightly News, The Discovery Channel, CBS’s 60 Minutes, ABC’s World News Tonight, CNN, Tech TV and the Outdoor Life Network among others.
• He coaches and consults elite athletes including USPS rider and four-time Olympian George Hincapie, World Record Swimmer Ed Moses, Indy Car driver Eliseo Salazar, Montreal Canadiens captain Saku Koivu, former World Champion and silver-medalist Olympian Dede Demet-Barry, 2000 & 2004 Paralympian Ron Williams, two-time Ironman World Champion Peter Reid, and Indy race car driver Tony Kanaan of the Andretti Green Racing Team
• Carmichael has served as a keynote speaker for prominent organizations or events, such as NIKE, The American College of Sport Medicine, The Tony Robbins Group, Autoliv, UNISYS, UK World Class Coaching Conference, WRQ Inc., Texas Tech University and the Global Coaching Conference for the USOC
• He pioneered and perfected world-class coaching methods and spawned the development of technology through which coaching is currently provided
• In 1996, Carmichael directed “Project ‘96,” USA Cycling’s state-of-the-art technology project
• Carmichael was a member of the first American team (7-Eleven) to ride in the Tour de France in 1986
• A member of the 1984 U.S. Olympic Cycling Team