THE SHORT ANSWER
Dan Lorang, head of performance, lidl-trek, has appeared on the Roadman Cycling Podcast 2 times. Here's where Lorang lands on threshold training. The positions below are drawn from those conversations, quoted directly.
WHO IS DAN LORANG?
Dan Lorang is a Luxembourgish endurance coach and Lidl-Trek's Head of Performance. The team's official announcement says his remit covers coaching, nutrition, health, recovery, athletics, and data and AI. Before joining Lidl-Trek on 1 August 2026, he led performance at Red Bull–Bora–Hansgrohe. He has also coached leading long-course triathletes. His two Roadman interviews are most useful for what they actually establish: sustainable load, season planning, heart-rate context, recovery and individualisation—not a universal weekly formula.
LORANG ON THRESHOLD TRAINING
Lorang’s key positions on threshold training.
- Became Lidl-Trek's Head of Performance on 1 August 2026 after his Red Bull–Bora–Hansgrohe tenure.
- Treats consistency and the balance between load and recovery as foundations of sustainable endurance training.
- Plans seasons backwards from priority races, then adjusts periods and tapers to the individual athlete.
- Uses heart rate alongside power and perceived exertion because the measures answer different coaching questions.
- Advises riders over 40 to include work, family, sleep and social stress when judging total recoverable load.
IN LORANG’S OWN WORDS
Verbatim from Dan Lorang’s appearances on the podcast.
“if we get studies where is the benefit of sports so where do you have the most benefit concerning your health normally we talk I think it's about six seven hours something there and after that already the positiv effects get a little bit less and so if we talk about 30 hours it has nothing to do with health it's it's necessary for high performance to bring your body to that limit”
“if you do for example a V2 Max session no matter in which spot for sure this is the session who should not be uh probably a three or four hour session um but this is the short session if you doing something with an easy endurance fat metabolism training easy endurance training so aerobic endurance training for sure this session can be much longer so basically these are already two parameters where you um that are are working vice versa so if you increase volume you decrease intensity”
“makes no no no no sense to make c training at the beginning of the season three times a week one hour and then skipping it uh somewhere when you start to race because then you will lose it because everything what you don't train you will lose again so um better to from the beginning on to build something consistency something what you can do consistently”
HEAR IT ON THE PODCAST
Episodes where Dan Lorang covers threshold training and related ground.
FREQUENTLY ASKED
What does Dan Lorang say about threshold training?
Dan Lorang, head of performance, lidl-trek, has appeared on the Roadman Cycling Podcast 2 times. Here's where Lorang lands on threshold training. The positions below are drawn from those conversations, quoted directly.
What is Lorang's main point on threshold training?
Became Lidl-Trek's Head of Performance on 1 August 2026 after his Red Bull–Bora–Hansgrohe tenure.
Which Roadman Cycling Podcast episodes cover Dan Lorang on threshold training?
Lorang discusses threshold training in this episode: "Roglic's Coach Builds A Training Plan For Amateur Riders | Dan Lorang".
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