The Real Reason You Keep Getting Dropped (It's Not Fitness)

🚴 FREE 6-Week Training Plan - raise your FTP and build the engine to hold it, on just 4 hours a week. Includes ready-to-ride Zwift workouts: https://cyclingnutshell.kit.com/freeplan Why do strong riders still get dropped on group rides? Almost always it comes down to tactics you can fix, not fitness. In this video we break down how much power drafting really saves behind a single wheel versus buried deep in the bunch, why spending less time on the front pays off later, where to sit to dodge the accordion effect that shells riders off the back, reading the route and timing your pulls around the climbs, cadence and gear selection for responding to surges, cornering technique to steal a rest, how to close a gap without blowing up, getting aero for free with the aero hoods position, the modern carbohydrate numbers and gut training that stop you fading in the final hour, and the most overlooked skill of the lot, finding shelter in a crosswind and staying in the echelon when the group splits. Join My Zwift Club: https://www.zwift.com/clubs/7080ea55-... Further reading and sources: → Why mid-pack drag drops to just 5-10% of an isolated rider's, from full-peloton CFD and wind tunnel testing (Blocken et al.): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... → How a glucose-fructose mix plus gut training lifts carbohydrate absorption from 60 up to 90-120 g/hr (Dr David Dunne, EndureIQ): https://www.endureiq.com/blog/carbohy... → Why the aero hoods position saves real watts over sitting up on the hoods, in wind tunnel testing (Ventum): https://ventumracing.com/Journal/aero... #cycling #cyclingtraining #cyclingperformance