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320 more articlesAEROBIC DECOUPLING EXPLAINED: THE CARDIAC DRIFT NUMBER THAT TELLS YOU IF YOUR BASE IS REAL
Heart rate climbing while power stays flat — that's not just heat or fatigue. It's a number called aerobic decoupling, and once you know how to read it, it tells you whether your base is real or whether you've just been counting hours.
CYCLING CADENCE BY AGE: WHY MASTERS CYCLISTS SHOULD SPIN HIGHER THAN THEY DID AT 25
Most masters cyclists pedal at the cadence they fell into years ago — 80, 82, 84 rpm. The body that worked at that cadence at 28 isn't the body riding the bike at 48. The fix is small, simple, and changes how the bike feels on every climb.
EFFICIENCY FACTOR FOR MASTERS CYCLISTS: THE SINGLE NUMBER THAT TELLS YOU IF YOUR AEROBIC BASE IS IMPROVING
Most cyclists chase FTP. Efficiency Factor is the metric that quietly tells you whether the work you're doing is actually building anything underneath it. For masters cyclists, it's the most useful single number on the head unit.
GLUTE ACTIVATION FOR CYCLISTS: WHY YOUR BIGGEST MUSCLE IS THE ONE DOING THE LEAST WORK
Your glutes should be the engine of every pedal stroke. For most cyclists they're a passenger — overridden by quads and hip flexors that have spent the day at a desk. The fix takes ten minutes a day and changes how every climb feels.
IRON DEFICIENCY IN MASTERS CYCLISTS: THE SILENT FTP KILLER MOST RIDERS MISS
You're sleeping well, eating well, training right — and yet every climb feels like wading through wet cement. For masters cyclists, the answer is often hiding in a single line on a blood test most riders never bother to read.
LACTATE THRESHOLD TEST AT HOME: HOW CYCLISTS CAN FIND LT1 AND LT2 WITHOUT A LAB
FTP is a single number for a single hour. Lactate threshold gives you two numbers that tell you exactly where to ride for every session of the week. Once the only people doing this were World Tour pros — now a small kit and a smart protocol gets you most of the way there.
THE POST-RIDE RECOVERY WINDOW FOR CYCLISTS OVER 40: WHAT THE FIRST TWO HOURS ACTUALLY DECIDE
The popular "30-minute anabolic window" was always overstated. The real recovery window is more like two hours, and for masters cyclists what you do inside it decides how the next ride feels — not the day after, but three days later.
PRE-RIDE BREAKFAST FOR CYCLISTS: WHAT TO EAT, WHEN, AND WHY MOST CYCLISTS GET IT WRONG
The breakfast before a long ride decides how the last hour feels. Get it right and you arrive at hour three with the legs still firing. Get it wrong and you spend two hours digging out of a hole that didn't need to exist.
RESTING HEART RATE FOR MASTERS CYCLISTS: WHAT THE NUMBER ACTUALLY TELLS YOU
Three beats up over baseline. That's all it takes for resting heart rate to be telling you something important. Learn to read it properly and you have the cheapest, most reliable readiness signal in your training week.
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SPRINT INTERVAL TRAINING FOR MASTERS CYCLISTS: 30-SECOND EFFORTS THAT MOVE FTP WHEN NOTHING ELSE DOES
Six all-out 30-second sprints. Four minutes of recovery between them. The whole session takes 25 minutes including warm-up. For masters cyclists fighting against time and a flat FTP, SIT is the training stimulus the research community has been quietly endorsing for a decade.
WHY THE SNAP GOES FIRST: WHAT ANDY GALPIN'S RESEARCH SAYS ABOUT CYCLISTS OVER 40
Most cyclists over 40 still have the engine. What they have lost is the kick. Muscle physiologist Andy Galpin explains exactly which fibres are quietly shrinking, why endurance riding does almost nothing to protect them, and the targeted work that brings the snap back.
BENJI NAESEN ON IMPOSTER SYNDROME AND THE 10KG THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING
Benji Naesen built one of cycling's most respected media voices while battling imposter syndrome and a 10kg weight problem. The story behind both changes is the same story.
CORY WILLIAMS: 1,640 WATTS IN THE SPRINT, 1,100 TO WIN
Cory Williams' peak sprint number is 1,640 watts. He won the biggest race of his career on 1,100. The gap between maximum power and winning power is where most cyclists' training is misallocated.
WE'RE RUNNING CAMPS. SIX DAYS IN GIRONA, OCTOBER 2026.
People have asked us about camps for about three years. The answer was always the same: not until we could do it the way we'd want to do it ourselves. We're finally doing it.
INDOOR VS OUTDOOR TRAINING: WHEN EACH ONE ACTUALLY WINS
The indoor-versus-outdoor argument isn't a war. They do different jobs. Here's the session-by-session split, why some sessions belong on the trainer no matter the weather, and why some sessions you cannot replicate inside no matter how strong the AI is.
JAY VINE ON HOW LESS TRAINING MADE HIM FASTER
Jay Vine went from Zwift Academy to UAE Team Emirates and won two Vuelta stages. Then he made the change that pushed him forward — he trained less.
LAURENS TEN DAM: HOW A GRAVEL RACE SAVED HIS CAREER
Laurens ten Dam spent 16 years in the World Tour, finished 9th at the Tour in 2014, and nearly walked away. A gravel race with a cooler of beer at the finish bought him three more years.
THE OVER-40 CYCLIST'S RECOVERY AUDIT: SEVEN THINGS TO CHECK
After 40, recovery is the input that decides whether the training sticks or doesn't. The work hasn't changed; the recovery profile around the work has. Here's the seven-point audit we use with masters cyclists in the Not Done Yet coaching community.
MATEJ MOHORIČ ON WHAT A TOUR STAGE WIN ACTUALLY COSTS
Matej Mohorič has won at the highest level — Milan-San Remo, multiple Tour de France stages. The cost of those wins isn't visible from the outside. Inside, it's almost everything.
MENTAL TOOLS THAT HOLD UP AT THRESHOLD: CLIMBS, TTS, AND THE LAST HOUR
At threshold and above, the mind is the variable. Four tools — segmenting, breath anchoring, the 90-second rule, and the second-person voice — hold up reliably across long climbs, time trials, and the last hour of any hard ride. Practical, not motivational.
NOMIO GREEN SHOTS: WHAT PRO CYCLISTS ARE ACTUALLY DRINKING
The little green bottles in every World Tour rider's hand right now aren't beetroot 2.0. The mechanism is different — and the science is more cautious than the marketing.
NUTRITION PERIODISATION FOR CYCLISTS: BASE, BUILD, AND RACE
Eating the same way year-round is the same mistake as training the same way year-round. Here's how carbohydrate, protein, and total energy availability should change across base, build, and race phases — and why most amateur cyclists get the build phase exactly wrong.
HOW TO PEAK FOR A SPORTIVE: A 12-WEEK FRAMEWORK THAT HOLDS UP
Most amateur sportive plans collapse in the final fortnight. The work was there; the timing wasn't. Here's the 12-week peaking framework — the same block structure we run with masters cyclists who train around real lives — built to put your form on race day, not in the file.
RACE-DAY FUELLING: A 24-HOUR TIMELINE FROM WAKE-UP TO FINISH
Most amateur fuelling failures aren't about what the rider eats — they're about when. Here's the hour-by-hour timeline from race-morning wake-up through the finish, calibrated to four- to eight-hour amateur events and the body of a rider with a job.