The 4% Nobody Trains For: Free Watts Hiding in How You Pedal
There's a number buried in the 2026 Masters training research that should make every 50-something cyclist sit up. Riders who cleaned up the timing of how their leg muscles fire through the pedal stroke picked up roughly 4% in functional threshold power, at the same heart rate. Read that again. Same effort. Same cardiovascular cost. Four percent more power. If you've been racing for a couple of decades, you know
You’re Not Too Old for Intervals. You’re Just Spacing Them Wrong
Somewhere around your 50th birthday, the advice changes. Training partners, forum threads, even well-meaning coaches start telling you the same thing: ease off the hard stuff. You're not 25 anymore. Stick to Zone 2 and ride your age. It's the most comfortable bad advice in cycling, and the 2026 VO₂max research says it's wrong on the part that matters most. Masters athletes respond to high-intensity intervals as well as
