Ollie travels to the French Alps to check in on the reigning Tour de France champions – VismaLease A Bike and their training camp. To prepare for the Tour de France, pros need to do horrendously hard training sessions there. But what exactly do their training sessions look like and how hard are they really? ...Can Ollie survive one of them?

00:00 How hard is Tour de France training?
00:41 Why is VismaLease A Bike training in Tignes?
01:45 What does the training session look like?
03:47 First set (19km climb)
06:09 Why does VismaLease A Bike use intervals like that?
07:25 Training your gut too
08:53 End of 2nd interval
09:15 Why don’t pros only train TT efforts?
10:16 2 hours of Zone 2
12:58 Last hour

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