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Your 50-minute warm-up routine is quietly making your sprint slower
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Cycling Science
Your 50-minute warm-up routine is quietly making your sprint slower
Cycling Science
Ride glued to the wheel in front and you save 50% of your effort — even the leader gets a cut
Cycling Science
Running your tyres soft for 'comfort and speed' has a real cost — and it's bigger than you think
Cycling Science
Rinsing your mouth with menthol doesn't cool you down — and you go longer anyway
Cycling Science
Go to bed carb-depleted on purpose — triathletes who did got 3% faster, not weaker
Cycling Science
Chasing the 30-minute protein window is solving a problem cyclists don't have
Cycling Science
A hard day at your desk can cost you real bike performance — not just motivation
Cycling Science
The 80/20 rule isn't the settled law it's sold as
Cycling Science
Altitude camps quietly fail about half the riders who do them
Cycling Science
Your FTP is a fresh-legs number. Durability is the one that wins races.
Cycling Science
Your most efficient cadence isn't fixed — it climbs with your power
Cycling Science
Even pacing is the slow way up a hilly time trial
Cycling Science
One bad night wrecks how hard the ride feels — not how much power you make
Cycling Science
The 'safe' caffeine dose that makes 1 in 6 riders slower
Cycling Science
120 g of carbs an hour digests fine. It didn't win anyone the race.
Cycling Science
Under-fuel today's ride and you'll pay for it in tomorrow's
Cycling Science
The most aero position on your bike might be making you slower
Cycling Science
You can halve your training and keep your engine — if you keep it hard
Cycling Science
In the heat, an ice slushie beats a bigger warm-up
Cycling Science
Your salt tablets are insurance against a problem overdrinking causes
Cycling Science
Add the fructose you've been avoiding — it lets you burn more carbs
Cycling Science
Push the block hard — cross into overreaching, and the taper can't save you
Cycling Science
Runners pay a strength-training tax. Cyclists don't.
Cycling Science
Lifting heavy makes you a faster cyclist — and won't make you bigger
Cycling Science
The ice bath after lifting is quietly capping your gains
Cycling Science
A hot bath after your ride beats the heat camp
Cycling Science
Your gut is trainable — two weeks to stop the mid-ride gut-rot
Cycling Science
Block your intervals, don't sprinkle them — the short-term edge is real
Cycling Science
Critical Power isn't your FTP — and the gap quietly wrecks your intervals
Recovery
Your morning readiness score is wrong about 2 days a week
Nutrition
The legal stack that adds 2.4% to your 40 km TT — if you nail the timing window
Training Zones
Why your Zone 2 is one zone too hard
Cycling Science
You ate maintenance. You still under-fuelled the ride.
Indoor Training
Why your indoor FTP isn't your outdoor FTP
Sleep
10 hours in bed beats every supplement on the market
The Library.
Long-form breakdowns. Every claim sourced to peer-reviewed work.
Your 50-minute warm-up routine is quietly making your sprint slower
Ride glued to the wheel in front and you save 50% of your effort — even the leader gets a cut
Running your tyres soft for 'comfort and speed' has a real cost — and it's bigger than you think
Rinsing your mouth with menthol doesn't cool you down — and you go longer anyway
Go to bed carb-depleted on purpose — triathletes who did got 3% faster, not weaker
Chasing the 30-minute protein window is solving a problem cyclists don't have
A hard day at your desk can cost you real bike performance — not just motivation
The 80/20 rule isn't the settled law it's sold as
Altitude camps quietly fail about half the riders who do them
Your FTP is a fresh-legs number. Durability is the one that wins races.
Your most efficient cadence isn't fixed — it climbs with your power
Even pacing is the slow way up a hilly time trial
Where the science comes from.
Every article is sourced to peer-reviewed work. No "studies show" — we name the journal, the year, the cohort, and the limitation.
How we vet every claim.
Peer-reviewed only.
No magazine recaps, no influencer takes. Every claim links to a primary study, DOI included.
Cyclist-applicable cohorts.
Where a study used a different sport or untrained subjects, we say so — and flag how strong the read-across to cycling is.
Effect size over significance.
A p-value says something happened. An effect size says whether it matters. We lead with the practical magnitude.
Counterpoints, always.
A single study is a data point, not a verdict. Every article closes with the strongest counter-evidence.
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