9 Dec 2020
Females are different than males. As a woman, train differently than a man then ! Sounds straightforward ? Let’s see if that’s what we do, and how we could do it. In endurance training, we have all heard about the classic year periodizati...
8 Dec 2020
Close your eyes, breath deep and imagine training and riding in the mountains… With Christmas approaching and some countries seeing an improvement of the Covid situation, we start thinking about the mountains, either because we see them capped ...
11 Nov 2020
For the cyclist eager to train, different solutions exist : to train alone, to be personally coached by a professional, or to follow a pre-built plan. Here’s a winter foundations cycling training plan to build your foundations for 2021 ! Your w...
10 Jun 2020
Food in your pockets, hydration in your bottles : hydration is not nutrition. In this article, I wish to give out basic essential information regarding how digestion takes place in our bodies and how to apply this understanding to fuelling and hydrat...
27 May 2020
Understanding peak performances can be tricky considering how many variables you need to take into account. When I was a pro cyclist, we all talked about ‘form’. When we were ‘on form’, each of my teammates and peers on the pro circuit talk...
17 May 2020
One of the many reasons to train with a power meter has to do with determining optimal training load. Should I ride two hours today or four hours? Should I do intervals or just ride easy? Are ten hill repeats enough or would fifteen make me even st...
12 May 2020
You want to start training with power and watts, you keep hearing about it all the day… How to actually do it in the right way ? Once you have forked out the dough for your new power meter, gone through the laborious process of installing it ...
21 Jan 2020
Remember that first time you could ride a bike , that moment when you felt you were flying and … crashed a few meters way as you didn’t find the balance ? You trained this balance and coordination so that now you balance yourself on the b...
18 Jan 2020
Vegan, paleo, keto, .. there are so many diets today that they seem to be like another piece of cloth in your cupboard that you’d change depending on your mood or the weather. We are trying to isolate studies on diets without critical thinking,...
18 Jan 2020
Cycling is often presented as being 50% in the legs and 50% in the mind; as many other disciplines and as in everyday life, mindset and mental attitudes contribute to most of your well-being and performance. Let’s be honest then : how often do ...
14 Jan 2020
Breathing is one of the incredible processes happening in our bodies : on one hand, it is totally unconscious and happens without us even realising it, on the other hand we can take charge of our breathing and control it. The benefits of controlled b...