FEATURED — LATEST EDITORIAL
Pinned by the teamINDOOR VS OUTDOOR TRAINING: WHEN EACH ONE ACTUALLY WINS
THE OVER-40 CYCLIST'S RECOVERY AUDIT: SEVEN THINGS TO CHECK
MENTAL TOOLS THAT HOLD UP AT THRESHOLD: CLIMBS, TTS, AND THE LAST HOUR
NUTRITION PERIODISATION FOR CYCLISTS: BASE, BUILD, AND RACE
THE FULL CATALOGUE
282 more articlesHOW 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.
HOW TO READ YOUR TRAINING DATA: TSS, CTL, ATL, AND TSB WITHOUT THE JARGON
Most amateur cyclists have a TrainingPeaks account they barely read. The numbers there — TSS, CTL, ATL, TSB — are not as complicated as they look. Here's the field guide for reading them properly, and the three signals worth acting on.
HOW TO USE RPE ALONGSIDE POWER: THE TWO-CHANNEL SYSTEM
Power tells you what you're doing on the bike. RPE tells you what that work is costing your body. Used together, they catch the days when the watts say you're fine and the legs say you aren't — which is roughly half the days that matter.
STRENGTH TRAINING FOR CYCLISTS: THE MINIMUM EFFECTIVE DOSE
Most cycling-specific strength advice fails because it asks too much. The minimum effective dose is two short sessions per week, four lifts, heavy enough to matter — and the published evidence is clear that this is enough to move the watts.
WHY YOUR FTP IS STUCK: THE 5 CAUSES BEHIND ALMOST EVERY PLATEAU
An FTP that hasn't moved in eighteen months is not random. It is one of five patterns. The fix is rarely "train harder" — it's more often the one input you've been holding constant while the rest of your life moved on.
THE 80/20 CYCLING RESET THAT ACTUALLY MADE ME FASTER
Most cyclists train too hard on their easy days and too easy on their hard days. The fix is the most uncomfortable simple change you can make to your week.
ALEX DOWSETT ON THIRTEEN YEARS AS A PRO: WHAT AMATEURS TAKE FOR GRANTED
Six-second-anticipation crashes. Bike fit changes that put 400 watts in a TT bike rider's legs. The hard-border road rules in the US that British and Irish amateurs do not respect. What thirteen years on the World Tour teaches a rider to see.
ALEX HOWES ON THE TOUR DIVIDE: EQUIPMENT BEATS FITNESS
Knowing your equipment beats fitness on the Tour Divide. Three 16-hour rides expose what a five-hour ride hides. World Tour residual legs help. They do not substitute for the experience of having ridden long enough to know what breaks.
THE SATURDAY SPIN
Get the week's training takeaways in one email.
65,000+ serious cyclists. What worked this week, what the pros did differently, and how to apply it.
ALEX WILD AT SEA OTTER: THE POWER FILE THAT TELLS THE REAL STORY
A 2,000 TSS block in eight days. A normalised 390 watts for an hour three weeks before Sea Otter. Six minutes of repeatability at four to four-thirty watts per kilo. Alex Wild opened the file. Here is what the file says.
ANDRÉ GREIPEL ON THE ROADMAN PODCAST: 158 WINS AND THE SPRINT CAPTAIN'S CODE
André Greipel won 158 races and gave every Tour de France stage bonus to his team. The captain's code, the burnout problem, and what serious amateurs can actually use from a 158-win sprinter.
40 GRAMS OF PROTEIN BEFORE BED: THE CYCLING RECOVERY LEVER MOST AMATEURS SKIP
Two decades of research, a probe in the belly fat, and a string of trials on real athletes. The verdict on a 30 to 40 gram protein feed before bed is the same in every study. It does not make you fat. It might make you faster.
BRIAN SMITH ON THE ROADMAN PODCAST: WHY SUFFERING STILL WINS RACES
Brian Smith won two British national titles and finished 45th at the 1992 Worlds in Sean Kelly's group. He didn't float through any of it. On the Roadman Podcast, he explains why suffering still beats science, what Robert Millar taught him about the 53x12, and how MTN-Qhubeka rebuilt African pros through the people they sat next to on the bus.
BRITISH CYCLING, WIN AT ALL COSTS, AND WHAT THE ACADEMY RIDERS ACTUALLY SAW
The "macho and primal culture" framing gained traction after the Varnish-Sutton review. The Academy alumnus on the podcast pushes back. Both things can be true. The lesson for the rest of cycling is what high-performance culture should and should not look like.
CREATINE FOR CYCLISTS: WHAT 30 DAYS ON 5 GRAMS ACTUALLY DID
5 grams a day for 30 days, no loading phase, $15 a tub. Sprint power up 5%. Climbing weight up 1.5kg. The honest cyclist's read on creatine.
370 WATTS HAPPY BEATS 400 WATTS MISERABLE: ANTHONY CUTS HIS TRAINING IN HALF
400 watts at 75 kilos became 370 watts at 80 kilos. Three years of training on half the volume. The TrainingPeaks data is brutal. The life on the other side of it is not.
THE 15% TAPER GAIN MOST CYCLISTS SKIP — AND WHY BACKING OFF FEELS WRONG
Backing off feels like falling behind. That feeling is the trap. The 15% performance gain hiding in a proper taper is the one most cyclists never earn, because the discipline of doing less is harder than the discipline of doing more.
DR. DAVID DUNNE ON THE ROADMAN PODCAST: WHY MOST CYCLISTS GET RACE WEIGHT WRONG
Most serious amateurs train 8 to 12 hours a week and still carry 3 to 7 kilos they would rather not. Dr David Dunne, the nutritionist behind INEOS, EF and Uno-X, explains why the "lighter is faster" framing is the problem, not the solution.
DR ALLEN LIM AND CYCLING'S REBIRTH AFTER ARMSTRONG
Dr Allen Lim refused doping at Garmin and made up the deficit by innovating around hydration, fuelling, and aerodynamics. The framework he describes for how the sport rebuilt clean performance is the foundation of the modern professional era.
DYLAN JOHNSON'S OSCILLATION TRAINING: BIG WEEK, RECOVERY WEEK, REPEAT
Thirty-five hours one week, twelve the next. Two intensity days held through both. Block periodisation by volume rather than by intensity. The shape of Dylan Johnson's 2025 build for Unbound, and the principles a serious amateur can borrow.
EATING MORE TO LOSE 9KG: THE OFF-BIKE CHANGES NOBODY TALKS ABOUT
Anthony lost 9kg eating more food than ever before. The kilos were the side effect. The real story is what changed off the bike — energy, sleep, mood, and a complete reset of the food morality that quietly haunts serious amateurs.
WITHIN RANGE, STILL KNACKERED: WHAT CYCLISTS MISS ABOUT TESTOSTERONE
Total testosterone is junk. Free testosterone is the metric. The fiftieth to seventy-fifth percentile is the target. And every cycling crash you ever walked away from is still sitting on the ledger.
SMALL T TRAUMA AND THE WATTS YOU CANNOT FIND: GABBY BERNSTEIN FOR CYCLISTS
A throwaway comment in sixth grade can quietly write the rules of an athletic life thirty years later. Gabby Bernstein's path back from her own version of that story is the conversation a lot of cyclists need before the next training block.
GER REDMOND ON THE ROADMAN PODCAST: WHAT A PRO IRONMAN BUILT FROM A PRISON CELL TEACHES CYCLISTS
Ger Redmond had no coach, no plan, no swimming background, and a two-year prison sentence behind him. He still went sub-9:30 at Ironman Barcelona and earned a pro license. The mental method that produced it is the part of training most amateur cyclists are skipping. And it's fixable.