The Importance of Glycogen Sparing in Cycling

If your FTP is higher than the amount of anaerobic work that you have to do to hit these 7, 800 sprints out of every corner, the anaerobic contribution is going to be less. You're going to end up fresher for that big anaerobic dump in the last minute of the crit if you have to use less of it throughout the race. And this is one of the things that sets pro cyclists apart from us mortals is that after racing for a couple hours, their power outputs are huge. Like they just gone off the couch.