DR ANDY GALPIN

“Power is the canary in the coal mine for ageing. Long before muscle mass falls off a cliff, the speed at which you can produce force has already started to drop. If you only train slow, you are training the part of the system that is already going to be fine.”

“Type one fibres mostly take care of themselves in an endurance athlete. Type two fibres do not. They will quietly shrink for ten years while you keep telling yourself that the riding is enough.”

“Velocity is the variable most masters athletes ignore. Moving a moderate weight fast does more for the nervous system than moving a heavy weight slowly. Speed is a skill, and like any skill, you lose it if you stop practising it.”