It seems that the new common knowledge that has been out there for master’s athletes (see Joe Friel, Stacy Sims…) is that we need to “lift heavy” in order to maintain muscle mass, and that if we don’t “lift heavy”, we won’t be able to make as many cycling gains. I’m ok that a master’s lifting routine/recommendations wasn’t described, but I would have thought that it would have been at least acknowledged that the outline described here was more for the “young’uns”, especially since Chad mentioned that he’s turning 50 soon.