Rouleur Performance

The miner, the telephonist, and the pickle juice: what is cramp and how to prevent it

Even the greatest athletes can suffer with cramp. But what is it? How can you ease it? And how do you prevent it in the first place? Rouleur looks ...

How Zwift is helping non-European racers

The next African superstars are being raised and developed via indoor racing

How food timing before a ride might be impacting your performance

A shaky start to a ride could have a simple answer

Training periodisation: How an all-female coaching company is using the menstrual cycle to get results

Will Harper founded Synrgy Cycling to redress the balance, open up conversations, and help female riders understand how to train around their cycles

Supplementing peak performance: What the pros use

Sports nutrition is rife with snake-oil proclamations, of delivering personal bests based on little more than marketing hyperbole. But not all. We ...

The stoicism of peak performance: how the world’s best race strong from January to October

Durability in cycling is one of the key differences between the goods and the greats. Rouleur investigates and enters the world of polarised traini...

Getting more out of maternity: How Joss Lowden trained through pregnancy

For Joss Lowden, being pregnant meant finding new ways to train, not a reason to slow down

The physiological benefits of cycling - whatever your ability

Occasional cyclist or pseudo-professional, our favourite sport and activity will forge a stronger, leaner, happier you. Let’s lift the anatomical b...

The age-related gender divide

The past few years have seen ‘youngsters’ dominate the men’s Grand Tours. It’s a different story in women’s racing where the biggest races are the ...

Sun, sweat, and sodium: How the pros manage hydration

The more you sweat, the more salt you lose, so how do professional riders manage their hydration during the summer heat

Pros vs amateurs: exploring the difference in physical performance

In order to ride a Grand Tour riders have to be at their peak physical performance, but how big is the gap between a Tour de France athlete and an ...

Science of peak performance: how Tadej Pogačar can win the Tour de France

Tadej Pogačar has an elite physiology that few can match. And, as his head of performance reveals, it’s at a far deeper and nuanced level than VO2m...

Heading high to peak at the Tour de France: The theory vs reality

Altitude training and the pre-Tour de France camp are synonymous in modern-day racing, but how closely does the physiological ideal match rider exp...