Really liked the why's of the training, of the specifics, to build the body efficiency up and not tear it down. Very insightful! Harder than I thought.
Nightmares are a form of dream. Training with pros sounds like a bubble burst when you realize how much better they actually are. Hard to appreciate until your side by side.
Ended by absolutely hitting the nail on the head. A lot would be able to do that session but doing it day in day out is why the pros are as good as they are.
@@alpsalish Type of riding he's been doing favors increasing his power. If he was the presenter that just did things like maintenance, or how to safely commute, he wouldn't necessarily be getting major gains. I'm a commuter - it is easy to stagnate in a routine, despite riding every day. His peers certainly help push him, but didn't necessarily have to. So damn good job on Ollie for being a heck of an athlete. He's an honorary pro for sure.
@@questgivercyradis8462 He is not an honorary pro. I like the guy too. Just talking specifically about training and his professional surroundings. He had all of the benefits that anyone would ultimately massively benefit from. It was always about turning training into content. Commuter ollie was dropped ollie. As soon as anyone goes from commuter to structured training you will improve massively. From there he is in a 24/7 training camp compared to most what most viewers enjoy.
@@questgivercyradis8462 He is not an honorary pro. I like the guy too. Just talking specifically about training and his professional surroundings. He had all of the benefits that anyone would ultimately massively benefit from. It was always about turning training into content. Commuter ollie was dropped ollie. As soon as anyone goes from commuter to structured training you will improve massively. From there he is in a 24/7 training camp compared to most what most viewers enjoy.
Excellent video Ollie! 👏👏👏 The training regimen details and explanation about the "why" of the specifics is quite educational. More content like this please! 👍
Reminds me of the trainings we did in athletics but this one has science behind it, we did on the “feel” of the coach. 15x400m on time(required to do under 60s) with 200m recovery jogs between sessions(one day we were told to do 100m recovery jogs, cause the coach felt like it) - cramps or vomiting pretty much guaranteed. After 3 sessions you were already basically dead
@@tristanheinicke8698 Don't know about "miles". I was mostly a sprinter - I wouldn't be able to maintain that speed over a "mile". My regular time for 400m, as a kid, was 52.4s, so doing ~58s wasn't extremely hard, just the insufficient rest, which basically guaranteed cramps, if not at the end of the training session, than after it.
I moved from UK to the Canadian Rockies 21 years ago and we are over 4000 feet above sea level. I love to know how my fitness level has changed from then til now. 👍🏻
Going up the hills that fast, and at least looking so effortless, will something i will never achieve. Fair play to Ollie for getting that achievement over his long and certainly hard improvement process.
A session I struggled a lot recently is 5x12min sweet spot. Warm up and then do 5 times 12 min @ 88-93% of FTP followed by 8 min @ 55% of FTP. Give it a try Ollie.
But it's not completely true. Do you remember the first time you had to stop in the middle of a little hill, gasping for air an unable to ride further? That hill does become easier, as you get fit you gain the ability to ride up the hill and not get destroyed by it.
@ltu42 it only gets easier if you stop pushing yourself. If you don't ride at your new limits, sure, everything will now be easier. If you push to your new limits, the work will be as hard as it always has been.
Ollie you BEAST!!! Smart training and diet habits with a healthy dose of love of cycling. Hey, what's wrong with your left leg? You might want to review the video with the frontal views and address it with your fitter? Awesome job, all the best.
Fantastic effort Chief. Looked incredibly tough but, as you point out, it’s all about building fitness and performance over time. So now to the video where you nail yourself to the cross for an entire week! It’s probably impossible for most mortals to comprehend just how fit the pros are. Which is why the Armchair Critic was invented 😂
Great effort, sounds very tough. The pros really go all in to optimise performance. The glory must be great but working so hard must be very draining. I think somebody said they average 25mph for 100 miles, it’s crazy. I’d be interested to compare Ollie’s current ftp with what some of GCN’s pros had at their peak. For amateur riders I think it’s important to strike the balance between getting fitter and just enjoying rides. We all want to be fit but it’s boring and stressful if every ride is measured
first off amazing video well done =) .. I have done sports for 40 years and have 100 hours of Physiotherapy in my old body to keep it going .. I saw your Knees are caving in when you push the 300+ watts.. I am not a bikefit guy or anything just hurts my eyes to see. As its for sure not a good thing if you want knees working in 5-10 years .. =)
The session is easier than I have expected. 2x15min over-unders and than zone 2 doesnt sound that bad. One of the hardest sessions at least for me is 5x5min VO2 Max 🤒
Great watch..... Ollie you look really strong there, when you lost all that weight, looked scrawny, but now you look really strong... after other videos racing other presenters can you now smash them on the same routes as previous race/videos
How many times do Canyon need to write Canyon on your bike? Absolutely massive on the Downtube, on each fork, the headtube (twice), the handlebar, the seatpost (twice)… we get it it’s a CANYON! 😅
Taking your jokey comment seriously: they have no shops or dealers for casual customers to see their product in and no shop staff to "push" the product towards customers. So they need every little bit of marketing they can get (including getting GCN to stand in front of them as often as possible). On the other hand, show me a bike frame (other than a custom paint job) that doesn't have the brand name front and centre (and left and right). I'm in no doubt that I ride a Scott.
Ollie has a lot of lateral movement in his knees. I noticed that on a video from a few years ago as well. Is this a concern for knee pain/damage? Power loss? Is there a fix for this?
i have a harder pre-tour de france training session: building up my wine, cheese and butter tolerance to avoid gut issues throughout the duration of the event.
Gee I hope the pro riders wont have the same sensations that I would feel. I’d have a heart attack trying to climb those mountains… and I ride in the mountains of the southwest US. Those guys are completely savage.
Great video! How come you’re not riding zone 2 by pulse but by watts? Your body is being stressed by the altitude, so you are probably riding pulse zone 3, or am I missing something?
Have to say you look like a pro.. new helmet is great looking.. especially with the glasses looking pro for sure.. btw what chores you using Ollie..?? Looking for a laced shoe.. Thanks..
As a fellow anglophone, I loved Ollie's pronunciation of "petit". I recall making this mistake many times when learning to live in a French-speaking country. For your next trip to France Ollie, the "e" should sound more like the second "e" in "effervescent", not the first one. Might not be the best example English word with both sounds in it, because I am not a linguist.
What route is that? It is gorgeous! I'd have no intention of hard training on it - but I want to take my time and see all the views, and pick up some pretty pebbles along the way. It is gorgeous. Benefit to going slow would be enjoying it longer. I'm sure my legs would be dead even at slow pace, but it would be worth it!
Cool vid, but it would be much more interesting if you took a very good amateur and had them train and tapper like they were going to race, then put them in that session with the actual Visma riders and saw whether they could keep up. Would be very interesting to see "can you, at your very best, hang with these guys for one training day?" Just doing the workout at your own zones isn't the same.
Tignes is a dead end ski station and the full climb it sits upon (Col D'Iseran) is currently still closed due to snow so no point in them going up it unless they have business. The Petit Bernard is a pass into Italy so again unless you are planning on crossing the broder for a reason not much point to go up it.
45 years old, 3.1 miles jog Weds before working an 8 hour shift, Thursday 8am 10x2 mins on the punch bag, 8 hour shift, 12 mile cycle with lots of uphills, 7 pints and then work the next day and a 2 hour cycle Saturday.
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🥵Was that harder or easier than what you were expecting? 👀
Let us know in the comments!
Harder
Really liked the why's of the training, of the specifics, to build the body efficiency up and not tear it down. Very insightful! Harder than I thought.
Def harder.
The 3 minute intervals were just above LT2 in the mid 300 Ws?
Efforts above 6k ft can be life sucking; that said what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
Joining Visma for a training session in Tignes, dude is literally living the dream 😊
Final done
There are actually a lot of people who get to ride with the pros.
Team Rabobank.
He's doing alright isn't he 🤣
Nightmares are a form of dream. Training with pros sounds like a bubble burst when you realize how much better they actually are. Hard to appreciate until your side by side.
A one hour warm up around 250 watts, I'd be cooked after the warm up 🤣 Keep up the great videos 👍
i think i am not even able to paddle 250 watts for an hour 🤣🤣
Yeah, That IS my training on a normal day
We don't think you're the only one 🤣
250 is where I do my intervals 😮
Ended by absolutely hitting the nail on the head. A lot would be able to do that session but doing it day in day out is why the pros are as good as they are.
They really are on another level 👌
Such a good video...really strong rider too, my FTP is your Zone 2 haha Incredible riding Ollie, making so much progress with your riding, good work!
Ollie is looking more pro than the pros with every ride! He will be in white shorts before you know it! 🎉
He better not get any ideas! We need him on the channel 🤣
The idea of doing this brutal training in the beautiful french alps is equally amazing and terrifying to me...5 hours, good grief
It's worth the pain 👌
let's face it, Ollie got way fit. He's added over 100W to his FTP while he's been presenting on GCN. Inspirational.
Honestly, surround yourself with ex pros and your job is to ride and get better. I don't understand how this is hard?
@@alpsalish Type of riding he's been doing favors increasing his power. If he was the presenter that just did things like maintenance, or how to safely commute, he wouldn't necessarily be getting major gains. I'm a commuter - it is easy to stagnate in a routine, despite riding every day. His peers certainly help push him, but didn't necessarily have to.
So damn good job on Ollie for being a heck of an athlete. He's an honorary pro for sure.
@@questgivercyradis8462 He is not an honorary pro. I like the guy too. Just talking specifically about training and his professional surroundings. He had all of the benefits that anyone would ultimately massively benefit from. It was always about turning training into content. Commuter ollie was dropped ollie. As soon as anyone goes from commuter to structured training you will improve massively. From there he is in a 24/7 training camp compared to most what most viewers enjoy.
@@questgivercyradis8462 He is not an honorary pro. I like the guy too. Just talking specifically about training and his professional surroundings. He had all of the benefits that anyone would ultimately massively benefit from. It was always about turning training into content. Commuter ollie was dropped ollie. As soon as anyone goes from commuter to structured training you will improve massively. From there he is in a 24/7 training camp compared to most what most viewers enjoy.
@@alpsalish Someone sounds jealous...
GCN, that was so well shot and edited! As always a great presenter and content too, well done all
The best line from Ollie “ the pros don’t stop for cafe”!! Beautiful!!
Excellent video Ollie! 👏👏👏
The training regimen details and explanation about the "why" of the specifics is quite educational. More content like this please! 👍
We need a before and after video of Old...When he started at GCN and him now!
Absolutely adore Ollie. "Average Joe" with a superheros heart! His journey has been brilliant to watch.
That is the beauty of cycling! Everyone, regardless of their level, share the same beautiful roads. You can't say the same thing about football.
Amazing Footage! Same style of filming by broadcasters during a grand tour would be highly appreciated.
Reminds me of the trainings we did in athletics but this one has science behind it, we did on the “feel” of the coach.
15x400m on time(required to do under 60s) with 200m recovery jogs between sessions(one day we were told to do 100m recovery jogs, cause the coach felt like it) - cramps or vomiting pretty much guaranteed. After 3 sessions you were already basically dead
Woah woah you were doing 15x400 under 60s on 200m rest?!? That's like 3:58 mile material!
@@tristanheinicke8698 Don't know about "miles". I was mostly a sprinter - I wouldn't be able to maintain that speed over a "mile". My regular time for 400m, as a kid, was 52.4s, so doing ~58s wasn't extremely hard, just the insufficient rest, which basically guaranteed cramps, if not at the end of the training session, than after it.
I found this really helpful. I’ve always had the thought that I must empty myself. I’m going to give those intervals a try
Great Video Ollie, really appreciate having a scientist who’s also a cyclist - incredibly valuable😉
I moved from UK to the Canadian Rockies 21 years ago and we are over 4000 feet above sea level. I love to know how my fitness level has changed from then til now. 👍🏻
Came for the curious inspo. Stayed for the mad respect. Stayed longer for the "Love you Bye". 10/10 would watch.
Going up the hills that fast, and at least looking so effortless, will something i will never achieve. Fair play to Ollie for getting that achievement over his long and certainly hard improvement process.
God bless you, Ollie, it’s harder than I was expected 🙌
A session I struggled a lot recently is 5x12min sweet spot.
Warm up and then do 5 times 12 min @ 88-93% of FTP followed by 8 min @ 55% of FTP.
Give it a try Ollie.
You are a machine Ollie! Beautiful scenery, awesome video!
Such a beautiful place to train ❤ Well done Ollie!
“It doesn’t get easier, you just go faster” - Greg LeMond
But it's not completely true. Do you remember the first time you had to stop in the middle of a little hill, gasping for air an unable to ride further? That hill does become easier, as you get fit you gain the ability to ride up the hill and not get destroyed by it.
@@ltu42 And normally even if you destroy yourself, you recover a lot faster.
@ltu42 it only gets easier if you stop pushing yourself. If you don't ride at your new limits, sure, everything will now be easier. If you push to your new limits, the work will be as hard as it always has been.
Ollie you BEAST!!! Smart training and diet habits with a healthy dose of love of cycling. Hey, what's wrong with your left leg? You might want to review the video with the frontal views and address it with your fitter? Awesome job, all the best.
I saw that too!!
Superb vid, more of this content 👏
"As an amateur cyclist..." - Some Guy Who Finished 7th in Tour des Stations
Fantastic effort Chief. Looked incredibly tough but, as you point out, it’s all about building fitness and performance over time. So now to the video where you nail yourself to the cross for an entire week! It’s probably impossible for most mortals to comprehend just how fit the pros are. Which is why the Armchair Critic was invented 😂
he gets about that ollie does ✊🏻🇬🇧
Great effort, sounds very tough. The pros really go all in to optimise performance. The glory must be great but working so hard must be very draining. I think somebody said they average 25mph for 100 miles, it’s crazy.
I’d be interested to compare Ollie’s current ftp with what some of GCN’s pros had at their peak.
For amateur riders I think it’s important to strike the balance between getting fitter and just enjoying rides. We all want to be fit but it’s boring and stressful if every ride is measured
Another great video Ollie - DANKE and much love and appreciation fromg ermany
I love it when Ollie talks biochemistry.
AMAZING !!!
Keep up the great work !!!
first off amazing video well done =) .. I have done sports for 40 years and have 100 hours of Physiotherapy in my old body to keep it going .. I saw your Knees are caving in when you push the 300+ watts.. I am not a bikefit guy or anything just hurts my eyes to see. As its for sure not a good thing if you want knees working in 5-10 years .. =)
Great content and definitely a bucket list place to ride for us mere mortals!!
PLEASE, PLEASE.... keep the music level below the normal voice levels... Blew my headphones off!
Crappy AV tech. Bush league.
Col du petit Saint Bernard is perfect for intervals, because the gradient is constant through the 24kms between 4 and 6%. The only issue is traffic.
Doing a Visma training ride on a Canyon seems illegal, haha.
Ollie needs to join a road race team and you guys film it all 👍
The session is easier than I have expected. 2x15min over-unders and than zone 2 doesnt sound that bad. One of the hardest sessions at least for me is 5x5min VO2 Max 🤒
Did my first 100km today so was feeling good about myself until I saw this. 🤣 Much like Ollie I'm not doing another one tomorrow.
Congrats on your first 100km day! :)
Great video Ollie you should defo be on a pro team well done 👏 💪
Great watch..... Ollie you look really strong there, when you lost all that weight, looked scrawny, but now you look really strong... after other videos racing other presenters can you now smash them on the same routes as previous race/videos
He's one strong rider 🙌
How many times do Canyon need to write Canyon on your bike? Absolutely massive on the Downtube, on each fork, the headtube (twice), the handlebar, the seatpost (twice)… we get it it’s a CANYON! 😅
Ollie is riding a Canyon? I couldn't tell what kind of bike it was 😆
Taking your jokey comment seriously: they have no shops or dealers for casual customers to see their product in and no shop staff to "push" the product towards customers. So they need every little bit of marketing they can get (including getting GCN to stand in front of them as often as possible).
On the other hand, show me a bike frame (other than a custom paint job) that doesn't have the brand name front and centre (and left and right). I'm in no doubt that I ride a Scott.
Yes so irritating
I am not into canyon bikes at all.
@@robbybobbyhobbies Enve
The Spanish teams go up Mt. Teide on Tenerife. The cable car station is 2,350 m.
Such a good video
Thank you GCN for the glimpse of pro training in the mountains ⛰️
Ollie has a lot of lateral movement in his knees. I noticed that on a video from a few years ago as well. Is this a concern for knee pain/damage? Power loss? Is there a fix for this?
Ollie should join an amateur race team. That should be the next GCN series, the gcn pros are definitely unfit at this point :P Go ollie :)
Ollie you da man! Love yer videos 👊🏻
..... or the day the DREAM of turning PRO CYCLIST died for OLLIEO - GO OLLIEO GO !!!! - cycling always hurts - you just go faster indeed
Nice! But with altitude shouldn’t you adapt wattage for the reps?
Do I have to take a biochem test after watching this video? Very well done.
Absolute monster 💪💪💪
i have a harder pre-tour de france training session: building up my wine, cheese and butter tolerance to avoid gut issues throughout the duration of the event.
Me too! Hi diet buddy!
Leaps and bounds Ollie... well done. 5h in the saddle... the day after must be hell... do they get a rest day and a massage?
The always clean Team Rabobank. Casino Team next please and their world beating Van Helsings 😂
Awwww ❤ sharing the love Ollie ❤ we love you too 😂😂😂
2:24 sort of beautiful ... more scary when you see how low the water is already now! :(
Gee I hope the pro riders wont have the same sensations that I would feel. I’d have a heart attack trying to climb those mountains… and I ride in the mountains of the southwest US. Those guys are completely savage.
super interesting video - would be good to see some dataprofiqle off the back of the ride though
Luv u 2 ollie mate
If I lived in Switzerland it would be so much easier to be a high level cyclist. So many beautiful climbs paths and trails.
Great video! How come you’re not riding zone 2 by pulse but by watts? Your body is being stressed by the altitude, so you are probably riding pulse zone 3, or am I missing something?
i use hr too. Hr was in z2!
Cycling Highlights on YT also give some valuable insights into the work teams do in prep for the TdF and other grand tours ….
Have to say you look like a pro.. new helmet is great looking.. especially with the glasses looking pro for sure.. btw what chores you using Ollie..?? Looking for a laced shoe.. Thanks..
Always enjoy Ollie's videos! Question though Ollie... is it me or is that new Canyon of yours sized bigger than your other bikes?
nice music as well lads!
Grand St Bernard is up the road from me... come along and find out why the Petit St Bernard is the Petit version...
Man this would be so sick. I mean I'd have to be on a motorcycle but still sick 😂
Who doesn't like a massive crepe 😄
Like you said, could complete one session, recovery - 3 days 😊
great content and great music choice
6:20 well said 👏👏
Brilliant Ollie!
We need to see Ollie ride with a pro team on their training camp everyday for a weel!
Great video Ollie. I don’t have a power meter so is there anyway to do similar using HR perhaps?
As I’m sitting on my couch at home I’m at 2171 meters. I love going to lower elevations. 🙂
As a fellow anglophone, I loved Ollie's pronunciation of "petit". I recall making this mistake many times when learning to live in a French-speaking country.
For your next trip to France Ollie, the "e" should sound more like the second "e" in "effervescent", not the first one. Might not be the best example English word with both sounds in it, because I am not a linguist.
Thanks very useful
What route is that? It is gorgeous! I'd have no intention of hard training on it - but I want to take my time and see all the views, and pick up some pretty pebbles along the way. It is gorgeous. Benefit to going slow would be enjoying it longer. I'm sure my legs would be dead even at slow pace, but it would be worth it!
Looking good Ollie for this year's Tour des Stations; Top 10 for the 1 day +200k and no bonk on that final, brutal climb?
I'd love to!
Ollie has that perfect greyhound race dog physique
Your still a beast on a bike Oli. Great episode
Full of bangers! 🎵
Cool vid, but it would be much more interesting if you took a very good amateur and had them train and tapper like they were going to race, then put them in that session with the actual Visma riders and saw whether they could keep up.
Would be very interesting to see "can you, at your very best, hang with these guys for one training day?"
Just doing the workout at your own zones isn't the same.
If you look for the videos of the winners of Zwift Academy joining the pro development teams on their training camps, you'll have your answer.
Interesting that the over under intervals were followed by zone 2 rather than following zone 2 .
I think your beard grew about an inch throughout that training ride. 🎉
Ollie has to be the only person I’ve heard describe over unders as “lovely stuff”; I swear at, not by, at, over unders.
Probably depends on your MMP curve
Basically it’s Saddle Time, with a few intervals.
My usual pre race session is 3h at FTP ;)
try watching the montage sequences on 2X speed. it's like a techno anime pedalfest
What glasses are we wearing here? Looking for a new pair myself. Thanks!
I assume this means if Jonas isn't ready then they'll be picking up Ollie as the leader?
Wow ❤ jammy bugger , amazing scenery… where are all the cars 👍
Tignes is a dead end ski station and the full climb it sits upon (Col D'Iseran) is currently still closed due to snow so no point in them going up it unless they have business. The Petit Bernard is a pass into Italy so again unless you are planning on crossing the broder for a reason not much point to go up it.
*not the hardest, Ollie!
For sure the most important!
The hardest will ever be the Giro!
I like it when people only mention the altitude once they actually get up there, otherwise everyone's immune and it's no big deal 🤣
45 years old, 3.1 miles jog Weds before working an 8 hour shift, Thursday 8am 10x2 mins on the punch bag, 8 hour shift, 12 mile cycle with lots of uphills, 7 pints and then work the next day and a 2 hour cycle Saturday.
Do you do anything else?
I'll start by having 7 pints.😂
There was a speck of dust right in the middle of the frame on some of your shots.