Talking about U23 road cycling is talking about the "anteroom" of professional road cycling, which means, The level of demand for preparation and competition in this category is high or very high in the majority of national calendars in many countries..

In this entry we will echo different performance indicators that have been published in several scientific articles., one of them and surely one of the most recent is that of Peter Leo and collaborators November 2022 where it analyzes the data collected in 30 U23 male athletes of high or very high level within the category.

An important indicator of performance in road cycling was assessed: Mean Maximum Power from 5' (MMP5) and Mean Maximun Power after 2000kj (MMP5 2000kj) where the first is an important factor but the second can determine the future of a test. route, depending on the weight of the athlete and the ease of consuming KJ (a heavy athlete will generate a greater amount of KJ by generating greater power compared to a light athlete) but we should talk about the KJ/KG ratio of body weight, where it should move around the 38-40 KJ y 50-55 KJ/KG for solving tests of this category.

The results will show an average peak of 454w (6.6 w/kg ± 0,4 w/kg) and after 2000kj average values ​​of 431w (6.2 w/kg ± 0.2w/kg) with a power loss not exceeding 10% in the large group of athletes.

We could talk about these values ​​as a reference in the U23 field, although from our experience we see values ​​even higher than these in athletes of the category..

We can also from a more cross-sectional study of Valenzuela P. and collaborators of 2022 where he compares values ​​and physiological parameters of professional cyclists, sub23 and junior in incremental test, estimation of 1RM in different strength work exercises, anthropometric and body composition values.

In this second case it is a laboratory study, incremental in stress test and in the first case they are values ​​obtained from the data collected in competition / sub23 athlete training.

Another article from Valenzuela P. and collaborators of 2022 talks about the power profile in professional cycling with fatigue indicators (after MTB case.  With all the data that science can provide us, it is true that today we can predict with increasing accuracy the performance or the future that can await an athlete he.