Articles tagged: cycling
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One Strength Session a Week Is All Your Cycling Season Needs
The most quietly powerful finding in cycling strength research isn't about how to build power in winter. It's about how cheap it is to keep it through summer.
Lifting Won't Hurt Your Watts-per-Kilo. Thirty Years of Cyclist Studies Settle It.
Every climber's quiet fear: lift heavy, get heavy, lose your W/kg. Three decades of cycling RCTs say it doesn't happen — and once you see the mechanism, you'll know why.
The 'Cycling Strength' Circuit Class Isn't Doing What You Think
Twenty squat jumps, twenty walking lunges, twenty kettlebell swings, twenty plank shoulder taps. The cyclist's circuit class is everywhere — and the cycling literature is unusually blunt about its actual effect on performance.
The Cycling Adaptation You Can't See: Tendon Stiffness and Why It Raises Your FTP
Your 5RM keeps going up. Your bodyweight hasn't moved. Your legs don't look any different. But your FTP is creeping up. The mechanism is one cyclists almost never talk about.
Strength Training Won't Raise Your VO2max. That's the Whole Point.
When the 2025 meta-analysis came out, cyclists kept reading it as bad news. Read it again — the part that looks like failure is the entire mechanism.
After Thirty-Five, the Cyclist Who Skips the Weights Loses More Than Watts
There's a quiet shift that happens to cyclists around forty. The gym session that was an optional performance edge in your twenties becomes the most cost-effective medical intervention of your week.