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Retro_Bastard-
I think the standard is deadlifts and squats until your legs and glutes explode. (In size hopefully)
For most cyclists, adding muscle mass and strength to the lower body must be more useful in all cases, unless you add so much muscle mass that your power to weight suffers for longer hills/mountains.
Acliff
Strength training for high power efforts is undeniably useful.
Much like the cliche of women not wanting to get big muscles from weight training, it’s pretty hard to gain significant muscle weight without the nutrition to support it.
On the other hand, if 2-3kg of extra muscle meant 100w more in a 30s-1m sprint, and a 15-20w more on your FTP, you’d probably take it?