Cyclist

What you can hold at hour five are a fuel question.

Your bike can only take you as far as your fuel system can carry you.

You can build bigger legs. Increase your FTP. Ride more miles. Spend hours in the saddle.

But there is another engine you’re training every time you ride:

Your metabolism.

Optimized Fat Metabolism (OFM) helps cyclists develop the ability to access more of their own stored fat for energy — helping preserve glycogen and support steadier output during long rides.

~2,000

kcal of stored glycogen — your entire sugar tank

40,000+

kcal of stored fat on a lean runner

30–60g/hr

the carb ceiling your gut can actually absorb

THE PROBLEM

You trained your legs. Did you train your fuel system?

A long ride starts easily.

The first hour feels effortless.

Your power is there. Your legs feel good. You settle into your rhythm.

Then the hours accumulate.

And suddenly you’re reaching for another gel, another drink, another handful of chews — hoping your stomach can keep up with what your legs are demanding.

And eventually, the question isn’t:

“Can my legs keep going?”

It’s:

“Can I keep fueling them?”

Standard endurance fueling can put cyclists on a continuous stream of gels, chews, drink mixes and bars. The homepage’s central argument is that this can create both performance and gastrointestinal limitations when an athlete becomes heavily dependent on carbohydrate intake.

“I finished on a fraction of the calories I used to force down — and I finished without a single stomach problem.”

Ultra Field · 100-mile trail

“The run stopped being damage control. Same watts on the bike, and I was still running at mile twenty.”

Ironman Field · Long-course triathlon

“Day three is where the sugar-fueled teams fall apart. That's where we start passing people.”

Adventure Racing Field · Multi-day expedition

Miles that hold

Your body is carrying fuel right now.

Your body doesn’t arrive at the start of a century ride with an empty tank.

It carries energy in the form of stored fat.

The challenge is accessing that energy efficiently while you’re riding.

Metabolic flexibility is the ability to use different fuel sources according to the demands of the effort.

For cyclists, that matters because the longer you ride, the more important your ability to manage limited glycogen becomes.

The goal:

The how

A catalyst and a system to get you to your potential.

Metabolic health & performance merge as a metabolic state attained through harnessing the available tools of diet, physical activity, supplements and lifestyle to achieve your metabolic potential.

There is no simple formula because each person is different.

It is not one thing but everything which makes achieving your health & performance goals complicated and daunting.

Fortunately, we’ve developed the products and program which give you a jump-start and a step-by-step roadmap to restoring your native physiology then developing your potential.

Our offerings are time tested (25+ years), developed at the very pinnacle of sports & ultra-endurance competition and based upon an evolutionary biology model instead of modern life to deliver real world results.

Product

VESPA

A metabolic catalyst in a naturally occurring peptide derived from the Giant Asian Wasp (known as the “Murder Hornets”) that signals your body to mobilize and metabolize fatty acids — sparing glycogen, flattening the glucose swings, and letting you fuel on what you are already carrying.

VESPA CV-25 — The original ready-to-use formulation containing 100 mg of wasp extract peptide. Just shake and consume a full pouch 30 minutes prior to physical activity. Natural ingredients. Low sugar/low calorie. No stimulants.
VESPA Ultra Concentrate (UC) — Highly concentrated (175 mg of Wasp Extract Peptide) and requiring dilution, VESPA UC is designed for maximum portability and duration when logistics warrant.
VESPA Junior (JR) — VESPA JR combines 8 grams of carbohydrate from Orange Juice & Honey with 70 mg of wasp extract peptide for a quick acting performance boosting formula perfect for youth team sports and other high level activities.

Program

OFM

Optimized Fat Metabolism (OFM) is a comprehensive and individualized system which periodizes nutrition and training while addressing nutritional gaps in the diet, the biome (Stomach & Gut Health), and metabolic challenges as a result of our modern lifestyle in conjunction with the demands of training and competition.

OFM guides you to build the internal machinery. VESPA jump starts it.

Experience: With over 25 years of competition based field development across a variety of sports; ultra-endurance, triathlon, team sports, individual and tactical athletes, OFM and VESPA have yielded winning results in competition and longevity in sport.

FAQ

Fair questions, straight answers.

I need carbs to hit my interval numbers.

Correct — and you still will. OFM does not remove carbohydrate from hard work; it removes it from the 80% of riding that never needed it.

Stage racing is all about glycogen replenishment.

Replenishment matters less when you spend less. Riders who oxidize fat well arrive at day three with a fuller tank and a working appetite.

What about criteriums and short, sharp racing?

Fuel those normally. The value for a crit rider is in the training weeks and the recovery between efforts, not in the 45-minute race itself.

Do I have to go low-carb to use this?

Most people feel the difference in appetite and steady energy within the first two weeks. Performance changes at the top end usually show up across four to eight weeks as the metabolic machinery adapts.

How fast will I notice something?

Is VESPA a stimulant?

No. There is no caffeine and no sugar spike. It is a signalling peptide that tells the body to mobilize fatty acids — you feel it as the absence of the crash, not as a hit.

Your Next Breakthrough May Not Come From Another Ride.

It may come from understanding how your body fuels the ride. Develop a metabolic system that can support the demands of the road ahead.