The Cyclopreneur Coach

You already know which part of the route you’re dreading.

It’s not the distance. You can handle the distance. It’s not the early start or the weather or the miles back home after.

It’s the climbs.

The one that’s been on the route card since the ride or trip was planned. The one everyone else seems to be looking forward to while you’ve been quietly calculating how bad it’s going to be and how far behind you’ll be by the top.

And the worst part is this feeling isn’t new.

You’ve been dreading the long climbs on every group ride and trip for longer than you want to admit. Turning up knowing before the road even tilts that the next 5, 10 or even 30 plus minutes are going to be a very public demonstration of the gap between where you are and where you want to be.

That dread isn’t about fitness.

It’s about weight.

Specifically the 10 to 15 kilos that has been sitting on your legs up every long climb, on every ride, on every trip, silently turning what should be the best part of the day into the part you just want to be over.

Riders who fix this don’t suddenly become climbers overnight.

They just remove the thing that’s been making every climb harder than it needs to be.

Drop the weight sustainably, while protecting your power and the climbs stops being the thing you dread.

They become the thing you’re quietly looking forward to.

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Cyclist in your 50s or 60s still carrying the same 20-35lbs
up the same hills?

Same hills. Same climbs. Same weight.

Year after year after year.

By now most riders in their 50s and 60s have quietly arrived at the same conclusion.

This is just what the body does at this age. It stops responding. The weight that shifted relatively easily in their 20s and 30s has dug in and decided it’s staying.

The climbs that were supposed to get easier with more riding keep proving otherwise. And just trying to add more miles that worked before somehow stopped working somewhere along the way.

So the rides keep happening. The hills keep winning, and the 20 to 35 pounds keeps coming on every trip, up every climb, through every summer that was supposed to be the one where it finally changed.

What most cyclists in their 50s or 60s don’t realise is the body hasn’t stopped responding. Not even close.

What’s stopped working is the approach.

Specifically, riding consistently without the nutrition structured properly around it. Burning real calories on every climb then eating most of them back before the day is out. Riding hard without ever giving the body the precise signal it needs to release weight it’s been holding onto for years.

That’s not an age problem. That’s a method problem.

Riders in their 50s and 60s who finally get both sides working together don’t just climb better.

They describe the body responding faster than it has in a decade.

Same hills. Finally a different result.

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Summer is ending and you’re still carrying an extra 20 to 35 pounds?

The same 20 to 35 pounds that were there when the season started. That survived every ride, every early morning, every weekend that went out on the bike through the heat and the long evenings that are now getting shorter.

And winter is coming.

Which means the rides are about to get harder to fit in. The dark mornings are arriving. The conditions that made getting out easier are disappearing and the comfort that comes with colder months quietly does what it always does to weight that hasn’t been addressed.

It keeps it exactly where it is or adds to it.

So spring arrives and you’re not starting where you left off in the Autumn.

You’re starting further back. Again.

This is the pattern that’s been repeating for most riders in their 50s and 60s carrying this weight. Summer doesn’t shift it. Winter holds it. Spring brings the same starting point and another season begins with the same 20 to 35 pounds still on board.

But the end of summer is actually the best time to break that cycle.

Sort the nutrition and training structure now, before winter takes the rides away, and for the first time you go into the dark months actually making progress rather than just maintaining what’s already there.

Spring arrives and you’re lighter than you were in the Autumn.

Not heavier than last year.

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Can’t stop eating after your rides?

Gaining weight and losing fitness in your 50s and 60s?

Weight and fitness not where you want them to be as a cyclist in your 50s or 60s?

Here’s what most riders at this age don’t realise.

The body responds faster than you think.

Not in six months. Not after years of grinding it out. Riders in their 50s and 60s who finally get the right structure in place around their training and nutrition see things start moving within weeks. The scale shifts. The climbs get easier. The energy that’s been missing starts coming back.

The problem was never the body.

It was the approach.

Most riders at this age treat weight and fitness as the same problem, ride more and both sort themselves out together. So they ride more, the fitness builds, but the weight barely moves because riding and losing weight respond to completely different things. And without the nutrition working alongside the training, the body has no reason to change the number it’s settled into.

So the summers pass. The weight stays stubborn and the assumption quietly forms that this is just what the body does at this age.

It isn’t.

The body at 55, 60, 65 is not the obstacle. An approach that’s only solving half the problem is.

Get both sides working together, structured training, nutrition built specifically around it, and the body that’s felt like it’s been ignoring you for years suddenly starts responding faster than you ever expected.

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Cutting calories on the bike to lose weight?

Are your weight and cycling being run by guesswork?

Been getting dropped by the group on climbs all summer?

Every group ride. Every climb. The same result every single time.

And the most frustrating part isn’t even the suffering anymore. It’s the predictability of it. You already know before the ride starts exactly where you’re going to be by the time the road tips up.

Off the back. Alone. Again.

Here’s the angle most riders never consider.

Getting dropped on climbs all summer isn’t always just a summer fitness problem. Summer is normally when you’re at your fittest. More riding, more miles, more time on the bike than any other point in the year.

But you’re still getting dropped.

Which means fitness was never really the issue.

The riders going away from you on every climb aren’t dramatically fitter. They’re not putting out significantly more power. They’re just doing it with considerably less weight working against them, and on a climb that difference is ruthless and immediate.

You’ve spent a whole summer trying to ride your way out of a weight problem.

It hasn’t worked because it never could.

The climbing changes when the weight changes. Not before.

Drop 20 to 35lbs properly before next summer and the group ride that’s been dropping you all season becomes the one where you’re the rider everyone else is trying to follow.

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Cyclist carrying an extra 10-15kg in your 50s or 60s?