Training guides

Training Stress Score explained — how TSS is calculated, how the Performance Management Chart uses it, and where the metric misleads riders.

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Ramp tests are quick and repeatable, but they suit some riders far better than others. When a ramp test gives you a usable FTP.

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Two riders with the same FTP can need opposite training. How VLaMax and VO2 max shape threshold, and what that means for your plan.

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The physiology behind a higher FTP — mitochondrial density, capillary growth, and why work close to threshold and HIIT both earn a place in a plan.

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What functional threshold power actually represents, why it anchors every training zone, and what it does and does not tell you.

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Twenty-minute tests, ramp tests and software modelling all give different numbers. Where each protocol misleads, and how to test well.

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What changes in the muscle at 70, 90 and 110 rpm, why riders self-select different cadences, and what that means for how you train.

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Lactate is not what causes the burn, and it is not a waste product. What it actually is, and why that changes how you read a threshold test.

Training metrics

A plain guide to cycling power zones — what each one trains, how they are set from FTP, and what a session in each should feel like.

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Why watts became the reference measure in cycling, and what power tells you about a ride that heart rate and perceived effort cannot.

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What the research says about high-intensity intervals versus long slow distance — and how to keep the training effect when you do not have hours to ride.

IntervalsTime-crunched

Which builds aerobic capacity better — sweet spot work or long zone 2 riding? What the research shows, and how to choose between them.

IntervalsTraining metrics

How to train when you do not have the hours — what to cut, what to protect, and how to keep progressing on a limited weekly budget.

Time-crunched

The off-season block most riders skip. What the transition phase does, how long it runs, and why base training works better after it.

Periodisation

Long slow base miles versus a shorter, harder build. What the evidence says about traditional base training for time-limited riders.

PeriodisationIntervals

Why you overheat on the trainer, what it does to your power, and how to set up an indoor space so heat stops limiting the session.

IndoorZwift

A walk through Build Me Up — how the plan is structured, who it suits, and what it is trying to build — from the coach who wrote it.

ZwiftIndoorPeriodisation

The same watts feel harder indoors, and it is not in your head. Cooling, coasting, cadence and terrain — what actually changes.

IndoorZwift

What occlusion training does to a working muscle, what the endurance research shows, and why it interests the time-crunched athlete in particular.

StrengthTime-crunchedRecovery

Loaded stretching between sets, the signalling pathways behind it, and the trade-off it forces between acute performance and long-term muscle growth.

Strength

How to periodise gym work around a cycling season — when to lift heavy, when to back off, and how strength turns into force on the pedals.

StrengthPeriodisation

What the research says about lifting for cyclists — the effect on economy, threshold and time to exhaustion, and what it does not do.

Strength

Surgical and non-surgical treatment, a range-of-motion and strengthening progression, and how to judge when you can ride again — from a licensed PTA.

RecoveryStrength

Whether gym work belongs in an endurance program, what it is actually for, and when in the season to do it without wrecking your riding.

StrengthPeriodisation

Fat adaptation against traditional carb loading for endurance events — what the research supports, and the ceiling a high-fat diet runs into.

NutritionEvents

Beta-alanine, creatine, caffeine and sodium phosphate — the four with real endurance evidence behind them, and what each is actually worth.

Nutrition

What to eat after a session, how much the timing window really matters, and practical food options that are not a recovery shake.

NutritionRecovery

What fasting does for general health, what it does to aerobic performance, and why those two answers point in different directions.

Nutrition

What keto does to body composition, what it does to the ability to go hard, and whether it is worth it for an endurance athlete.

Nutrition

When to eat around training — pre-ride, on the bike and in recovery — and why timing changes what the same food does for you.

NutritionRecovery

Eating by hunger rather than by arithmetic — how to start, why food volume beats food density, and the one issue that gets left out of the conversation.

Nutrition

Energy balance is real, but calorie counting is a poor tool for it. What dieting does to the body, and what to use instead.

Nutrition

Seven practical fuelling rules for cyclists and triathletes — what to eat, how much, and how to stop nutrition undoing the training.

Nutrition

How to tell whether you are hydrated, how to run a sweat-rate test, and how to build a drinking strategy you can hold in the heat.

NutritionEvents

How to build to 100 miles — the volume that matters, the long ride progression, and the fuelling that decides how hour six feels.

Events

Gravel racing asks different things of a rider than road. The three areas worth training specifically before your next gravel event.

Events

Where aerodynamic drag comes from, which factors you can actually change, and the time savings each is worth over a real course.

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