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The question
What should a recovery curve actually predict?
Why we want to predict how a familiar ride feels, rather than give you a vague percentage recovered.
Not peer reviewed
Research rationale; no Good Legs participant findings.
Your gym work needs to fit around the riding you care about. This is where we explain the choices, from finding a gym day to understanding why the same ride can feel harder after lifting.
Start with the guides if you want help planning your week. Read the research if you want to understand what we’re testing and why.
YOUR WEEK / THE USEFUL QUESTIONS
Start with
your question.
Choose the question that matters to your next session.
- Where should strength training go in a cycling week?
- How many strength sessions should a cyclist do?
- Should I cycle or lift weights first?
- What if lifting leaves me sore before a key ride?
- Should cyclists keep lifting during race season?
- What can a recovery curve actually predict?
- What happens when gym days, rides and travel clash?
- Can I load a worked example and change the week myself?
- Does strength training improve cycling performance?
- Can a cycling load score tell me whether to lift?
NEW RESEARCH / CYCLING LOAD & TRAINING STATE
The ride behind
the strength session.
Can a clearer record of your riding help us plan strength training better? We’re starting with a proposed cycling load score: what it describes, what it misses, and how we would test it.
Working specification 0.1 · Proposed, not validated
Explore the researchTHE PRACTICAL PART / YOUR WEEK
Put it in
your week.
Keep your rides where they are and try adding separate gym sessions around them.
Choose your ride days and available gym days. The planner shows a possible arrangement; it cannot tell how recovered you are or choose the right training load for you.
Arrange a sample week Read the cycling & strength guide ↗YOUR RIDING COMES FIRST07 DAYS
Your week.
Room for strength.
- MonRest
- TueIntervals＋ Strength
- WedEasy ride
- ThuThreshold＋ Strength
- FriRest
- SatLong ride
- SunEasy ride
Illustrative example for a rider accustomed to lifting.
Separate sessions later that day; not a prescription.
Your rides keep their days.
Good Legs Labs / The Recovery Curve
A forecast has to
earn your trust.
Will a familiar ride feel harder than usual tomorrow? These three articles explain the question, our proposed study and the ways a forecast can fool us.
02
The study plan
How we propose to test the Good Legs Recovery Curve
What riders would do, what we would record, and how we would test whether detailed gym logs improve the forecast.
Not registered · Not ethics-approved · Not recruiting
Protocol development; unresolved decisions remain. No participant results.
03
How forecasts can mislead
How a recovery model can look accurate and still fail riders
A forecast can look impressive while missing the thing a rider needs: how tomorrow will differ from their normal day.
Made-up examples · Not peer reviewed
Checks on the testing method, not results from riders.
The study is still being planned and is not recruiting. The app waiting list is separate. The third article uses made-up data; its supporting research code is not hosted here.
Free tool
Where does the gym fit?
Enter your cycling week, choose your available days and explore a sample placement for one, two or three gym sessions.
Try the free schedulerYour week
A cycling and strength schedule
Start with the rides that matter, then find room for gym work without sacrificing the rest of the week.
Read the cycling and strength scheduleSame-day training
Ride first or lift first?
How to think about order, separation and the session that matters most when both happen on the same day.
Read about cycling and weights on the same dayRace season
Strength training during race season.
How to think about gym work when racing takes priority.
Read the race-season strength guideGOOD LEGS / THE PLANNED IPHONE BETA
See what we’re building.
See how we’re building strength and recovery around your cycling plan, including training blocks, daily check-ins and completed gym sessions.
- 01
The week you train in.
Explore how the planned gym work changes with Sprint, VO₂ max, Threshold or Base blocks.
Explore the training blocks - 02
How you feel today.
See a check-in example, the strength adjustment and the reason behind it.
Explore the check-in - 03
Recovery in the same place.
Preview yoga, meditation and flexibility alongside the strength work.
Explore recovery - 04
Your work. Your people.
Preview private team stories for completed sessions and progress.
Explore team stories
These are previews of the planned app. The iPhone beta is planned for January 2027. Your endurance plan stays yours.
The first 100 beta members receive three months free from receiving access. Joining the list is not a purchase, subscription or guaranteed place. Offer terms.
How Good Legs uses evidence
Our guides link to the research behind them. We say when an example is made up and when a scheduling suggestion is our own judgement.
Our research articles explain work in progress. Each includes the full technical paper, its date, references and research status. A study plan or a calculation with made-up data is not evidence that the app works.
The published date is when a guide first went online. The updated date records a meaningful edit. Original research papers keep their own version dates. The app is still in development; early access is a waiting list.
What Good Legs is being built to do · What the free planner can establish
Editorial method updated . Questions or corrections: tony@