1st NPR of the year Big Orange 1st & 2nd 🤜🏾🤛🏻

Recovery walk (Business call)

Great to be outside breathing deep w/good air quality

Morning Workout

2026 Let’s gooooo!!!!

New Year’s Day effort — indoors this year due to rain, but the physiological intent stayed the same.

Today’s session was built around high torque, steady-state force production — the kind of muscular demand required in racing when cadence drops and force per pedal stroke matters (closing gaps, long pulls, late-race fatigue).

At this intensity, the limiter isn’t just muscular strength.

High torque work dramatically increases metabolic heat production. As core temperature rises, the body reallocates resources toward thermoregulation — increasing skin blood flow and sweat rate to protect homeostasis. That energy diversion reduces what’s available for external work, which is why these efforts feel disproportionately hard relative to speed or power.

No fan on purpose.
Heat load was part of the stimulus.

Layered on top was respiratory restriction via a training mask. This increased the cost of ventilation, elevated CO₂ tolerance demands, and challenged nervous system control under stress — all while maintaining steady power.

This wasn’t about suffering for its own sake.
It was about adaptation.

Whether you ride for fitness, longevity, or competition, the same systems apply:
	•	Muscular force production
	•	Cardiovascular delivery
	•	Respiratory efficiency
	•	Thermoregulatory control

Different goals. Same physiology.

New year. New benchmarks.
Measure, adapt, repeat.

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1st NPR of the year Big Orange 1st & 2nd 🤜🏾🤛🏻

Recovery walk (Business call)

Great to be outside breathing deep w/good air quality

Morning Workout

2026 Let’s gooooo!!!!

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