Dan Lorang is one of the most respected coaches in endurance sport — the long-time coach to triathlon greats Jan Frodeno, Anne Haug, and Lucy Charles-Barclay, and Head of Performance at Red Bull–Bora–Hansgrohe since 2017. He is the rare coach who has produced Ironman world champions and Grand Tour stage winners using the same underlying principles. His public work on training-load management, polarised intensity, and the long-arc development of an athlete has influenced how the smarter end of the amateur world structures their season.
The major positions Lorang is known for in cycling and endurance sport.
Every appearance by Dan Lorang on The Roadman Cycling Podcast — 2 episodes in total.
Roadman blog articles that reference Dan Lorang’s work.
Every Episode of Roadman Podcast with Dan Lorang
Dan Lorang has been on Roadman more than any other World Tour coach. Here's every episode, what it covers, and why it matters for age-group …
Ironman Bike Training Plan: 16-Week Build for Age-Groupers
Sixteen weeks, three phases, one goal: arrive at T2 with legs that can still run a marathon. A week-by-week Ironman bike plan for age-groupe…
The Bike Leg of Triathlon: Why Most Age-Groupers Get It Wrong
The bike is 50–60% of your race-day time and the single biggest threat to your run. Most age-group plans give it a third of the attention. H…
“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”
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