Matt Wilpers

Quick Facts

  • Discipline(s): Cycling, Running/Tread, Rowing, Strength
  • Joined Peloton: October 2016
  • Known for: Architect of Peloton’s Power Zone Training program (Discover, Build, and Peak Your Power Zones), co-founder of coaching business Team Wilpers, former CPA and pre-med student, marathon/triathlon/HYROX racing
  • Instagram: @mattwilpers 
  • Official Peloton page

Bio

Last updated: September 7, 2026

Before he was Peloton’s Power Zone architect, Matt Wilpers was a CPA. He spent three and a half years at KPMG on the financial services auditing team, and was on a pre-med track before joining Peloton as a cycling instructor in October 2016. That analytical background shows up in his coaching: alongside Denis Morton, Wilpers pioneered Peloton’s Power Zone program, and he has since built out all three Power Zone Training courses (Discover, Build, and Peak Your Power Zones). He has coached runners, cyclists, and triathletes since 2008, teaches across cycling, tread, rowing (since 2022), and strength, and co-founded Team Wilpers, a virtual coaching and bike-fit business, outside of Peloton.

Wilpers is also a serious multi-sport athlete in his own right: a 2:54 marathoner, a 1:17 half marathoner, and a 10:38 Ironman triathlete, with a personal race calendar he treats as a demonstration of his own coaching philosophy that structured goals turn training from abstract to actionable.

2026 has been one of his busiest racing years yet. He ran a free NYC shakeout run ahead of the United Airlines NYC Half Marathon in March, made his HYROX debut at the Legendz Miami Beach event in early April, then finished the 2026 TCS London Marathon on April 26 in 2:58:25, earning his sixth and final Abbott World Marathon Major star. Days later he announced his next target, the IRONMAN 70.3 Mont-Tremblant in Quebec, which he raced on June 21. In between, he took his coaching philosophy off the bike entirely, delivering a keynote in May at the NYSAIS Business Affairs Conference for independent school business leaders, drawing a direct line between structured athletic goal-setting and institutional leadership.

2026 Milestones

Signature Classes & Programs

  • Power Zone Training (Discover Your Peloton Zones, Build Your Peloton Zones, Peak Your Power Zones)
  • Strength for Runners series
  • Peloton Tri Collection (2025)
  • HYROX Training Program (contributed running-focused content, co-led by Robin Arzón and Andy Speer) https://theclipout.com/matt-wilpers-hyrox-miami-debut/

The Clip Out Coverage

The Clip Out Podcast Appearances

1: Peloton Instructor Matt Wilpers Launches Clothing Line

2: Matt Wilpers’ Power Zones

PTON History Highlights