What the biggest factor in the decline in your cycling speed as you age ?
For myself its the fact that I can't stay injury free enough to do regular training. Although this year Ive discovered the joy of dead lifts - so I am regularly riding right now - where as previous years its March/April before I start going out.
Is it lost muscle mass, ? decreased cardio performance, increased Fat/Weight ? - or other factors
Any experience/Views welcome ?
Has we age, muscle mass, VO2 max all decline. We can massively slow the decline, by lifting weights and doing high intensity intervals.
In the past I did a fair bit of endurance riding for preparation to go to Tenerife in the winter. Since last October I've been doing Zwift races several times a week. I've now added in weight training again& really enjoying the DOMs feeling