Seventy-two years old.
Still riding.
Still teaching indoor cycling classes three times a week.
Still standing in front of a room full of older adults and telling them — from personal experience, not theory — that forward motion is still possible.
I built BicycleHigh because I needed it to exist. Not as a brand. Not as a business. As a place.
A place for the cyclists over 50 who are still out there — on the road, on the trail, on the spin bike at 6 AM — and who want to stay that way. Intelligently. Purposefully. For the long haul.
This is the first post. It seems right to start by telling you exactly who this is for.
For the cyclist who refuses to define themselves by their age
You know who you are.
You’ve watched people your age stop moving and you made a quiet decision not to. You don’t talk about it much. You just show up — for the early morning ride, for the class, for the trail you’ve been riding for twenty years.
You don’t ride to prove anything. You ride because it’s part of who you are. Because the bike has been there through enough of your life that it’s less a piece of equipment and more a practice.
BicycleHigh is built for you.
Not for the 25-year-old chasing watts. Not for the racer optimizing FTP. For the person who understands — maybe better than they can articulate — that cycling after 70, after 65, after 60, after 50 is one of the most powerful investments you can make in your own future.
For the person who wants the science, not just the story
I hold a BS in Biological Chemistry. I’ve spent 35 years in the dietary supplement industry at a high level — product development, quality systems, regulatory compliance, marketing. I hold NASM certifications in Personal Training and Corrective Exercise. I’m an AFAA-certified Group Fitness Instructor, an ICG Indoor Cycling Professional, and an Advanced Senior Fitness Specialist.
I tell you this not to impress you but to make a commitment:
Everything I write here will be grounded in evidence. When I make a claim about training, recovery, nutrition, or supplementation, it will be backed by the science and informed by three and a half decades of professional experience in health science.
You deserve more than feel-good cycling content. You deserve accurate, rigorous, practical guidance written by someone who has spent their career studying how the body adapts, performs, and sustains resilience over time.
That’s what BicycleHigh will deliver.
For the rider who has lived a complicated life
In 2008, my wife suffered multiple cardiac arrests.
Since that day I have been her full-time caregiver. For eighteen years.
I tell you this because it’s relevant — not as a bid for sympathy, but because it shaped my understanding of what endurance really means. Not the endurance measured in miles or watts. The endurance built quietly, day after day, in a life that did not go according to plan.
During those eighteen years, the bike was the constant.
Not because riding was an escape from caregiving. But because it was a reminder — that forward motion is still possible even when life narrows unexpectedly. That physical strength can be maintained even when everything else feels out of your control. That the decision to keep moving is itself a form of resilience.
I suspect some of you know exactly what I’m describing. The cyclists over 50 who are also caregivers. Who are also navigating loss, or health challenges, or the quiet grief of watching life narrow in ways they didn’t choose. Who keep riding anyway.
BicycleHigh is for you too.
For the person who wants to stay capable — not just active
There’s a difference between being active and being capable.
Active means you move. Capable means you can do what your life requires — carry your grandchildren, travel independently, get up off the floor, manage your own household, make your own decisions — for as long as possible.
Cycling, when done intelligently, is one of the best investments available for long-term capability. Low impact on the joints. High cardiovascular return. Engages the neuromuscular system in ways that translate directly to balance, coordination, and fall prevention. Supports bone density. Delivers measurable cognitive benefits.
And it’s enjoyable. That matters more than people admit. The movement practice you will actually sustain is the one you want to do. The bike has that quality for most people who find it.
At 72, I exercise seven to eight hours per week — cycling, yoga, strength work, meditation. I’m not doing this to chase youth or compete with a younger version of myself. I’m doing it to protect my future. To ensure that ten years from now I am still capable, still independent, still strong enough to be present for the people and the life I care about.
That’s what BicycleHigh is about. Not performance. Not aesthetics. Capability.
What you’ll find here
BicycleHigh will publish consistently — three times per week — across four content lanes:
Training and strength for cyclists over 50. Evidence-based guidance on how to train, recover, and progress as an older rider. What changes after 50 and how to work with those changes rather than against them.
Supplement science for endurance and longevity. This is a lane I can write with more authority than almost anyone in the cycling content space. Thirty-five years in nutraceuticals, a science degree, and an active life as a cyclist — I will tell you what the research actually supports, what’s marketing noise, and what belongs in your protocol.
The mental and emotional side of staying active. Resilience. Identity. What it means to keep moving when life gets hard. The psychology of the long-term athlete. This is the lane most cycling content ignores entirely — and the one I suspect matters most to the people BicycleHigh is for.
Real life over 50 on the bike. Gear, routes, indoor training, managing injury, riding through seasons of life. Practical, specific, and honest.
A private community for those who want to go deeper
Alongside this site, I’ve built a private Facebook Group — BicycleHigh: Cycling & Longevity Over 50.
It’s private because the best conversations happen in a contained space. The group is for cyclists over 50 who want to share, ask questions, and connect with others navigating the same terrain — the training, the challenges, and the life that surrounds the ride.
If that sounds like your kind of community, the link is in the menu. Request to join and I’ll approve you personally.
One last thing
Some friends call me Jack LaLanne Jr. I take that as the highest compliment.
LaLanne understood something that most of the fitness industry still hasn’t fully absorbed: that the goal isn’t to look young. It’s to remain capable. To remain strong. To remain present and functional and engaged with life for as long as possible.
That’s the philosophy behind BicycleHigh. Everything published here will be in service of that single idea.
Stay capable. Stay moving.
B Positive. 🚴
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