Does a diet affect your power to weight ratio?

Lost another 1.2kilo... Strength above my current benchmarks. Power 2 weight ratio increase.

How are you doing????????

You must be back to the cake runs......sad.

Good job I use a pencil....my ink would have dried up by now if it was pen

Dave, give Jimmy access to my email please. Thanks.

OK.

How do we contact each other? I can't even find the PM now???
As you are a blogger will they give you access to my email address?

Evidence if needed... 46 years old, 78kgish. 8-9% BF, however will go upto 10-12 as I am starting a strength biased training phase for the next 10 weeks or so.

Gotta say I agree with @cyclist
I went from weighing around 90kg down to around 75kg, at first when I lost a lot of the initial weight through mostly cardio exercise and was down to 80kg or less I actually found a lot of cycling harder even though I was doing more of it than I had previously.
Once I started to do less cardio and more weight work (not even anything especially heavy) I found when I did go out riding it was a lot easier and I could sustain a lot more power for longer.
Definitely don't underestimate the need to keep your fuel levels up, and how long it takes for what you've eaten to actually be available as energy. I've had quite a few saturday morning rides where I went to the gym on a thursday evening and haven't actually managed to fill my energy levels back up.

@Jimmy... PM sent.

@glynr36. Bare with me. Let me discuss with Jimmy first.

I will add though, riding more doesn't give you what you want when it comes to power to weight ratios, improves skills etc and stamina (how you use fuel) commonly mixed up with endurance.... And riding more at a long steady duration is not the best way to improve your on the bike or any endurance.... Now think about that. Less time worrying about getting those base miles in and actually more time enjoying the rides.

)))Lift weights(((

I am 46 weigh 78kg have a bodyfat percentage between 8-9% all year and I dead lift 202.5kg and I sub 5.20 for 100 miles regularly and I put it all down to weightlifting, oh did I mention I am a strength and conditioning coach!! (26 years) if you want a better power to weight you must lift weights. Happy to discuss in private.

'Definitely feeling the benefit of lessened weight, just need to get the fuel intake right to be able to ride faster. '

That is the key and it's a swine to get right. I can lose weight relatively easily (having said that, there's a lot to lose) but cutting stuff out really does tend to impact on the performance. Took me months to get it right. Weight is going down, power is better than it was at the higher weight. Stick with it and you'll find the magic formula

Eat complex carbs pre and post ride/race.. Remove them at other times replace with lots of veg/salads etc
Ensure you lift weights..squats deadlifts power cleans etc, if you can do a Double bodyweight deadlift for instance, you have a very good power to weight ratio. Get a coach for technique not a youtube video.

Well done. I went back up to 75kg while off the bike with new babies. I've just got rid and am back to 70kg. That said, I've not regained the power yet, so maybe I've more to lose if I hope to have my strength and 70kg weight. Just don't go too far, I used to be constantly cold!

Well done Jimmy.

More unprocessed food and less starchy and sweet processed carbs is easily attainable. I don't go without treats, but a degree of restraint has real benefits.

But it's not easy maintaining self-control; the factories and supermarkets want you to buy lots of cheap, processed crap; the groaning shelves and constant bombardment with adverts etc leads people to think they should have far more rich food than they need. Mindset is a big part of the battle.