What kind of training are pro riders doing in 2025? Is it really that different from what they did 20, 10, or even 5 years ago? In his interviews with WorldTour coaches, Daniel Lloyd gets to the bottom of what’s really happening with pro training in 2025! ❤️🔥
⏱️ Timestamps: ⏱️
00:00 What sort of training are pro riders doing In 2025?
05:51 The difference in training compared to 20 years ago
09:29 What are the differences with pre-season training camps?
13:05 What’s the reason behind low cadence work on a climb?
15:42 Jack Haig’s daily training 🚴♂️⚡️
16:44 How much time do you spend at altitude and on training camp?
17:28 The difference in training camps (then & now)
20:01 Monitoring riders & control of rider metrics
23:01 Will pro careers be shorter from now on?
25:40 ‘Refinements” in training
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35 Comments
What do you think of the training pros are currently doing? 🚴♂️ Do you find it as interesting as Dan does, or do you feel there's something to it that takes anything away from the sport? 🤔
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I’m well past “retired cyclists age” at this point, and have no aspirations of ever becoming pro. I still find the fine tuning of the human body fascinating! Please keep this kind of stuff coming.
Keep these types of videos up
more cycling trenning
Thanks! Great episode
Very interesting content 👍
I don't understand how they are so much faster than the glory days of doping
Anytime we, as fans, can get more insight into what makes a pro cyclist do what they do – is always going to be a great thing! Most sports have a preseason conditioning phase, then preseason games, then movement into the regular season. Then after the season is over, there may be a break, but also some continued off season conditioning. I think you would hard pressed to find a sport whose athletes aren’t fitter, faster, stronger than their predecessors. Thanks!
You're being lied to, it is chemicals that have become more concentrated and effective. I am talking as both daily scientist and daily triathlete.
Thank you for reading my article on Velo! I really appreciate it
Z2, heat and carbon monoxide.
This is great! GCN back on track 🫶🏼
Thanks for the video! Love this sort of long form content
Brilliant. You finally discovered the fascinating missing link.
Insight in the pro's (training) realities is your basic competence to resch this level of cycolg journalism.
More in depth content please
Interesting: They gain data from races and use it for training .
Each race ad a test.
Only races reveal certain crucial abilities of athletes..
Now they have the technical means to gain those.
The aspect of torque muscle fatigue is a good way of describing something all cyclists felt but might have been not implemented perfectly in the traiming process
Love this kind of content. This is what I’m here for.
This is very useful content, well made, well explained, thanks
How boring 🥱
Everything is more technical. F1 analyzes more real time data than NASA. The science isn’t new but the precision is applied in a new, more purposeful way. I love the open mindedness.
Love this!
Interesting. I would like to see GCN because it is the go-to site for cycling science.
Excellent video, Dan: Keep em coming. Also, I thought that a lot of what you presented also links into a big topic for GCN and racing followers: Safety. So, riders are going into the tour ranks earlier and earlier, racing less before they hit the World Tour than before. Specific training has them racing less, and no big group rides in training camps. The training and technical advances make racers stronger, and bikes faster. So, stronger and faster riders on faster bikes are racing more races, faster, with significantly less time riding in groups, races, and packs. As a former cat 1 and you, Dan, as a former world tour pro know it takes years to fully develop the instincts and skills necessary to ride smoothly and safely in high speed races. Shouldn't wonder, should we, that nineteen and early twenties riders in World tour are crashing more than 24 year olds years ago entering World Tour with slower races and years more high level racing experience than now..BTW: tell Si who says bikes are safer now to note physics: bikes are lighter, and bikes are faster. Lighter and faster is NEVER safer. a And yes, disc brakes are stronger and stop faster, but are only safer if riders experience and reaction times are better with the reduced time to respond that dics create. That's why there are no brakes on track bikes: riders riders would crash more because of the speeds and close quarters that do not allow riders to react fast enough to brakes, if they had them. The road is getting closer to those speeds and tolerances now.
amazing! thanx for that 👏🏻😎
I love hearing about training methodology! It's actually all that really interests me anymore in cycling
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OOH! With Skujiņš living at altitude, I wonder what kind of impact heat training then does for him… big/little differences, physiological impact changes compared to not at alt… #JustInterested
The face of this guy , is the face of the modern Britain : confused and not self assured . Ha ha ha
Yes, please! More of this type of content, GCN. Not all of us huge fans of the slapsticky videos like “Strongman vs a Climber vs a Giraffe” yuk yuk
Why do so many cyclists leave their helmets on during coffee stops?
Love this kind of content
love this type of content
Low cadence does not equals to strength training. Different things!
Dan, that took me back sixty years of so when you mentioned being coached by Alan McRae. Alan and I paired up for a mid-week, two-up TTT, on the circuit between Sopley, Bransgore, and Kingston, instead of the usual 10 mile ITT. If you happen to see him, (assuming he's still around), please remember me to him. I enjoyed the video, by the way, and not just for the trip down memory lane.