Originally Posted by echappist

Getting back to your snarky self again?

time you spend in the gym is time missed on specificity training on the bike. As you acknowledged, all your studies are comparing effects of adding strength training, not replacing.

None of the following are addressed:

Most people here have time constraints, and many simply can't add hours on top of their endurance programs

What happens when the hours spent strength training is replaced by bike specific strength training (i.e. Anaerobic intervals and such), is the difference still as large?

Above all else, this topic has been debated ad nauseum on the wattage forum, with no conclusive finding that strength training improves performance better than other types of training.