We are all facing a unprecedent global pandemic episode pushing the most of the countries to confine people. I first hope you are all well and you will stay healthy. Confinement appears today the only way to to limit coronavirus propagation. This have an impact in our daily life (job, family, training, fitness level and […]
We are already the second week of January so I’m not so late to wish you a fantastic year 2020. 2019 was a great year with great wins & performances of my coached riders mainly on the road and in Cyclo-Cross/ That was a year seeing me back to the competition … not on […]
Thank for the interest in my website; you are more and more to read it every week. What I propose to you this week is to start a more interactive way of sharing best practices on Cycling. Lionelreynaud.com has started a kind of mutation with first for the riders I coached with their own training […]
Winter is a always a difficult time for cyclists : lower temperature, shorter daylight … At this time, you should have already started your preparation as for northern Europe the season ends usually in October. So you have more or less some hundreds of Kilometres in your legs and it’s starting freezing outside… Do not […]
2019 has started letting behind us the good & bad memories of 2018. I take the opportunity of this post to wish a fantastic 2019 year to you and your family. 2019 is a new and exciting year taking into account that 2020 the Olympic & Paralympic games will take place in Tokyo. Countdown has […]
Circuit Training is a method of resistance training or weight training maximizing the volume of work done in a limited period of time. It consists of performing several exercises on multiple body parts in a row, with little rest in between exertions. The aim is to train different muscular groups consecutively. The most common sequence is legs exercise then arms […]
Heart Rate monitoring is the basis of numerous sports training & monitoring. The first heart rate monitor was sold in the 80’s and used during the Tour de France early in the 90’s. Greg LeMond in the Tour’90 using Heart Rate Monitor When I was competing in road cycling, as a rider, I learned how […]
Welcome on my new Blog; time is flying … So much time has passed from the first version of this website, it was in 2005 when I started my collaboration with Cofidis Cycling team (see the picture of young coach testing the first SRM installed). At that time young riders were Bradley Wiggins and Sylvain […]