The Tour de France is widely considered the most gruelling sporting event on the planet.
But what really happens to the human body when you ride 3,500km in just three weeks?
From burning 6,000 calories a day to extreme central nervous system fatigue and “functionally anaemic” blood levels, we dive deep into the brutal reality of professional cycling.
In this video, we analyse the nutrition, physical breakdown, and physiological limits of the world’s toughest athletes.
00:00 The Ultimate Test of Human Performance
00:35 The Brutal Stats of the Tour de France
01:17 The Impossible Nutrition Challenge
03:43 The Immune System Under Attack
04:23 Heart Rate & Vascular Changes
05:39 Surviving the Tour de France Crashes
06:48 Superhuman Power Output
07:21 The Training Behind the Tour de France
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44 Comments
Pro riders are nothing more than horses really. Left for dead after a short career.
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Awesome! Thank you.
Sorry the tour divide is worse.
And when they are not ridding, eating, or sleeping…they are pooping
great info show Dan
You didn't mention the drugs!! Oh right, it was just Lance and now they're even faster cuz…. chicken and rice…. and buy this gear!
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Let's see max effort for long distance is painful
200 Big Macs 🤩😋
Thus is proof Tadej is an alien.
Not very aesthetic physiques though…..I went back the the gym as had enough of looking like a 12 year old girl.
I do the same on my favourite 30 mile route, huge bowl of pasta, bottle of coke, coffee, two doughnuts and a sis gel, 50g protein chocolate shake afterwards. Dont want to waste away
Lance Armstrong never had a problem.
You forgot to mention the doping is what makes it possible to do what they do.
This thumbnail pic is nasty, big dislike on the video for that 🤢👎
wont their legs go numb after that ?
why do you look like deva cassel's dad
Not a human but bio machine. They don’t even think.
Im always staggered by the amount of single use plastic that modern cycling creates.
Hearing only 200 Big Macs are equivalent to total Tour de France caloric expenditure is incredible.
Tour of stupid
It's also expensive 😅
I would've thought the earliest Tours (from the early 1900s) would've been much more difficult given those riders are on bikes considerably heavier.
Why the long faces on cyclists🤣🤣🤣🤣
A brilliant explanation of it all Dan Thanks !!
It’s like a drug addict or alcoholic. Knows it’s bad but does it anyway.
Props first and formeost to Jensen, but also Alex and Si and by no means least to the production team. I'm not saying I think GCN is a fly by night operation normally (far from it) but the quality of the video was worthy of a major broadcaster IMHO. Cant really give eveyone esle a big up without mentioning Charlie's route planning which looks awesome.
Great video. Thank you.
Ps and BTW I'll take the four day option with pub stops that someone else mentioned here thankyou very much!
Let's see, 500 pints in 21 days is about 23 beers per day…. sounds like a challenge.
why was the edit before the intro lowkey so tough
sounds like Tour de France should be canceled and set at a lower distance.
On top of all of the illegal unhealthy doping in that sport, it sounds like its very very unhealthy.
– but hey.. money is king and those who make massive profit on this, dont give a flying fart about the person on the bike !
Performance drugs are brilliant. Dirty sport.
What is the point of those stupid clicking sounds ?
Tour de Farce, always has been, Lance Armstrong just made it visible to the world
What about all the steroids they take you left that out?😊😊
Tour de France riders have got to be the most mentally tough people out there riding in 90°+ for 5 hrs+ for 3 weeks even on their 3 rest days they get they still ride for 1 to 2 hrs insane
Pro sports = corruption, what a surprise
Roids are BRUTAL on the human body
most riders already lost their body weight on forehand which on itself is a joke looking that unhealthy and weak. Ignoring the body isnt sport, its a battle of retardation
the ridiculous point here is that on forehand you have to destroy your body making it as weak and unhealthy as you possible can, only than you have a chance to compete with the skinniest weaklings who have so less destroyed muscle mass not needing any blood anymore than their hearts dont even have a body to feed anymore. It's basically cheating themselves biologically taking off at least 10 years of their total lifespan in order for their ego boost and junkie runner high
only a sport if you have an ape brain
it is not a sport of it only evolves from people who cannot properly do anything other which needs skill as a sport. Just run, cycle and ignore your body chasing the feeling that you get when the body signals you it's dying. Calling this a sport is mentally 1 stadium from being disabled… The ultimate ego fallacy
in the world we live in nowadays its a sport where people actually connect to their body instead of this weak joke
300 kwatt per hr for 5 hrs straight is insane