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At 70, Ned Overend Still Wins Races on 7 Hours a Week. His Training Would Get Cut From Most Amateur Plans.

The first UCI Mountain Bike World Champion turns 70 this year, still podiums at the Belgian Waffle Ride, and rides the bike for barely seven hours a week. The science says he is doing exactly what most masters plans get wrong.

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Just 90 Minutes of Cycling Weekly Could Help Control Type 2 Diabetes

The American College of Sports Medicine's 2022 consensus statement says aerobic exercise reduces HbA1c by 0.5 to 0.7 percentage points in type 2 diabetes.

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Barefoot Shoe Movement And Cycling. The Honest Biomechanics Answer

Running has spent 15 years arguing over minimalist shoes. Cycling has quietly gone the other way, chasing carbon-plate rigidity and tighter uppers, and there is a good biomechanical reason the barefoot movement has not crossed the aisle yet.

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One Night of Bad Sleep Won't Kill Your Race: What the Peer-Reviewed Cycling Data Actually Shows

Recent European Journal of Applied Physiology research on sleep-deprived cyclists produced a surprising result. Your 20-minute TT power holds up. Your Zone 2 endurance takes the hit. Here is what actually changes at the pedals.

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Endurance Cyclists Are 2 to 10 Times More Likely to Develop Atrial Fibrillation : The Screening Protocol Every Masters Rider Needs

It also produces a specific arrhythmia risk that shows up disproportionately in male masters riders with long endurance histories.

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Cyclists Have Weaker Bones Than Sedentary Adults: The Two Non-Cycling Habits That Cut Osteopenia Risk 40 Percent

A peer-reviewed scoping review found that 84 percent of competitive cyclists meet criteria for osteopenia or osteoporosis.

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Kristin Armstrong Won Olympic Gold at 42: The Perimenopause Training Adjustment That Kept a Time-Trial Career Alive Past 40

A peer-reviewed study of 187 female endurance athletes found that 74.6 percent of perimenopausal riders reported symptoms interfering with training.

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Resting Heart Rate Falling Fast? It Might Be Overtraining, Not Fitness

Peer-reviewed research on functionally overreached endurance athletes shows heart rate recovery gets faster during overtraining. The signal amateurs read as fitness is often the first sign of collapse.

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Deep Vein Thrombosis in Cyclists: The Hidden Health Risk of Endurance Cycling

A published cardiology case report documented a young cyclist whose training volume itself became the risk factor..

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A New 2026 Study Just Ended the "Cycle Syncing" Debate for Female Cyclists. Recovery Matters More Than Peak Watts.

New peer-reviewed research on 10 cyclists says that framing was mostly wrong. What actually shifts is recovery capacity, not peak output