The Tour De France Eating Challenge | How Much Do Pro Cyclists Eat In A Day
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2020
- The Tour De France is well on its way, with the riders putting in huge efforts every day to compete. But what do they have to eat to fuel such Herculean performances? Join Conor as he follows a diet set by Trek-Segafredo Nutritionist Stephanie Scheirlynck, and attempts to eat what an average tour rider eats in a day
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Could you eat this much food in a day? Let us know in the comments 👇
nope! and that's why i''ll never be a pro rider
I could eat that and be hungry again for lunch. Then go for a bike ride in the afternoon. If you want a video about my dinner that day call me.
This is just lack of judgement. You have done such a good job so far promoting healthy eating, and Then you made a eating way to Many calories video with the label challage. No matter how many disclaimers etc. In the video, this is just wrong.
Absolutely not. Not even when I worked 100+ hours a week at very physically hard jobs did I eat anywhere near that much.
Hi, the rider's weight is also an important data before and after the stage, and more important at the end of the tour. It work precisely as a control of what is consumed in each athlete. This works in such a way that what they lose during the stage they get back and ready for the next stage. Above all, don't exceed the calories, obviously they have their chefs and nutritionists on the bus.
This is Conor's best video yet - keep letting him go unscripted and talking about his own experiences, it really works.
Totally agree. What a personable fellow!
I agree!
Conor you forgot the glass of Chapagne at dinner to celebrate your stage victory!!
Glass... popping! a bottle of champagne 😁
Remember: any pizza can be a personal pizza if you believe in yourself and try hard enough.
I rode a century in a storm in February. On my way home, I picked up a large pizza, and ate it all.
@@peter_smyth What area do you live in?
I routinely snarf 4 k calorie pizzas. Not difficult. Oh...I weigh 150, have for the last 33 years.
Lol
@@renegadetenor you must have a hollow leg
Nobody at GCN has so far admitted that this video was in fact shot in real time and that by 9.13 AM Conor had finished his days work as was putting some thorough thought in to what to eat for lunch.
I'm with you there. I know it was overcast, but did the sun move at all during the shooting of this video? I want to see Conor's gpx file before I believe he actually went on a 4-hour ride.to use up those calories.
Conor's so tall it throws off all perspective at 2:09 I can't tell if he drinking a espresso form a tiny cup or it's just regular coffee in a regular sized cup.
Connor seems like such a nice dude, perfect addition to the gcn crew !
Nigel called and berated me for not cleaning the team bus before filming.
Damm Conor nice
Folks, I can tell you: easy task. I can do that even without cycling. And add loads of sweets and ice cream. Call me if you want me for a video
Our SugarHero !
my man)
SchulzeSternberg 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🙌🏽
Only if we can help you eat the sweets & ice cream.
@@TheGreenhillsCyclist 😆🙌🏽
I once ate 28 jaffa cakes in one go. Always on my CV as relevant additional skills in life.
Impressive stuff...
@@stevec6232 almost went pro but sponsors changed to fig rolls. Can't stand them
There should be a coloured jersey available for that. The orange jersey. I’m sure you’d be wearing that in Paris 👍🏻
Result: a lot of extra dishes and a backed up wc.
Great video, wow what a challenge. No wonder the Tour guys are so fast, winner gets the toilet first. Now I know why I am too slow, just need more food, ha, ha! Thank you for this insite.
The bloke is so tall that it makes his bike looks like a minivelo!
Downside of being tall, bikes are ugly
Lj M bruh?
this bloke is so tall it makes his tractor look like a smart car!
How tall is he?
@@elegantmature1662 I think Conor is 6.10
I guess you will have to take LE DUMP after doing le tour?
Le Grand Dump, nonetheless
Before each stage, makes you lighter on the climbs :-D
Tour de dump LOL
Merde is shit in French so fit that In how ever you'd like
Imagine how hard you'd have to ride to burn that, and then do it day after day. Sheesh. The pros aren't just fast, they're energy guzzling, energy expending machines.
I think this is one of the best GCN videos. Love the unique camera angles!
A serious thanks for this video! Our kiddo is a passionate cyclist but doesn't have an appetite (long medical story), and this video is a super helpful explanation of how eating is a major part of the job!
I can't ride and eat at the same time, so in my case it'll look like eating interrupted by brief periods of riding.
GCN is taking over cycling! If I look up anything to do with cycling. Yer videos are always top of the list!
those poached eggs look suspiciously fried...
And the pancakes are crepes, not pancakes...
TheChaadr European pancakes are usually a lot thinner!
I thought the same 😂
@@xXcangjieXx it seems that the recipe of European pancakes is the same as crepes, while north American pancakes have baking soda in them (that's why they get "fluffy")
Also, I am sorry, I didn't know that crepes were named European pancakes :)
TheChaadr No worries. Here is Sweden our pancakes are as thin as crepes aswell. Though american pancakes has gained popularity lately!
Wow. He really holds his bike steady when riding with no hands. I tend to rock a little bit. Looks like I have another skill to work on!
He has a longer stem I’d imagine ...
Super episode! Super insights from a lovely lad! 👍
This is one of the funniest videos in a long while 👍🏽And some good and useful info too, not trivial to fuel for those days you need 6000+kJ
Since I like to eat so much I should eat half like a pro at the tour, with a quarter of the cycling 🤔🤔. That averages out to 2500 calories and 25 miles a day(175 miles a week) this is doable.
Sounds like a very healthy number. You might even lose weight with that few calories and that much cycling.
Entertaining as always. Double thumbs up for the massive Bear in the Big Blue House Vibes from about 8:30! 👍👍.
very helpful, thank you !
Definitely gained some weight just watching this video, that is a crazy amount of food.
I can't stop laughing watching this video. It's kind of a culinary show, but everything is served on a bike.
Great humor as always Champ 😎🤘🏻
I don't know which is scarier, the amount of food Conor ate or his blase one-handed knife work!
Just watched the viddy! Perhaps a new GCN segment “Cooking With Connor” is in order!
Those poached eggs on toast look suspiciously like fried eggs on brown bread.
and the quinoa looks suspiciously like rice.
Starting to sound like Nigel needs to be paid more
He's so fun to watch , you knw like a charismatic tall tree .
We loved seeing Conor eating a banana in the tractor. Classic!
Just decided my 60km today means I deserve post-dinner sandwich, cup of char and kit kat Thanks Connor 🥞🥣🥘
You metabolize fast as He + double hockey sticks!! I've swollen up just watching you eat. You don't drink a lot of water but powder beverages.
Thanx Connor! You just gave me a reason to become a pro cyclists!
Big GCN fan so I was very pleased when we were told to watch this for university
Man alive, you'll need a good clear out in the morning after that lot.
Hence the coffee!
I wonder how many times people recognize the gcn jerseys and say hello. It's never been shown.
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Connor, this video was so well done, GCN should up your pay to get you a new couch! 😳
Nice to see the dinner and pre-sleep meal coming in when the light is so bright- some might even call it day-like...
I was wondering if anyone else noticed that. 7 PM earliest for the GCN Breakaway on TV during supper, it shouldn't have been that bright.
Well, obviously, the focus was on the food. So, for lighting purposes, they would have had to cram it all in. Poor chap must have had to stuff himself up with those ridiculous amounts of calories for the cam.
I´m a type 2 diabetes 45 years old cyclist If I just smelled that breakfast, I won´t be able to pedal for more than 5 kms without having a sugar coma and die. My breakfast consists of coffee and a raw oatmeal shake with strawberries. That miserable shake + the coffee allows me to ride about 160 kms plus 3, 000mts of climbing. God I envy normal people.
I'm not diabetic but if I ate that first thing in a morning I'd be in a kind of coma too, because I would have to go back to bed and sleep it off.
Pre bed snack looks like afternoon 😋
Pls give this man a higher quality camera! it would make the video so much better!
Love the GCN tour bus.
Connor you are sensational!!!
It's the guys doing all the pulling for the teams that need all that fuel, the rest are sat in the wheels most of the day well below threshold which they can do pretty much fasted.
When I rode across the USA, that was about an average day. The problem was when I got done I had gotten used to eating that much.
Ahh same! I put on 10kg In the 10days after my tour. I did love eating that much though...
@@mirzamarcou5168 how is it possible you gained 10kgs on a tour aren't you supposed to be close to your maintenance weight when you started?
Life of a pro cyclist: eat, ride & eat, eat, massage, eat, sleep, repeat 😆
What happend to Connor's hair? Some secret competition with Ollie? Guybrush Threepwood tribute?
Thanks for the video, now I'm hungry
That 1 day menu, can fuel me for 3 days straight 😂
Conner's been exceeded. By me. There's a barn constructed from the Mayflower timbers in England. During a cycle tour in 1977 the locals put on a feast on our group's behalf. I ate 11 hotdogs and 11 hamburgers! I much prefer Conner's fare except for the gel. 200k makes for a massive appetite.
Connor's best so far.
stare at Conor long enough, he slowly turns into WilliaM Dafoe XD
poje poje 😂
You know, I'm something of a pro cyclist myself
That tractor is out of Tax and insurance..... Conors videos are always a good, funny watch
Cheers :)
Don't need tax and insurance on private land.
Can we have a bit of vinaigrette with the crude vegetables ?
Great video ;)
4:31 What kind of psyco peel the full banana before start eating?
Try it one day Jean 😉
Great. Thanks.
Nigel is a smart man, running for the hills as soon as his brother in law asked for a massage.
Somehow you got me watching a grown man eating. I'd do it again, but I'm still surprised.
That’s a surprisingly good point, actually.
Hahaha, I was thinking the same thing.
You need to try the Compo Challenge.
The Compo Challenge is consuming the contents of a British Military 24 hour ration pack in 1 hour (including drinks).
Sounds easy, right?
WRONG.
I'm pilling on the pounds just looking at all that food. GASP! I've lost a stone & a half since I started watching my calorie intake. Ok, I'm a commuter cyclists on my ickle TREK hybrid. Just another 3 stone to go till I'm at my recommended 8 stone. If I ate all that, my bicycle would flatten under me!
11:51 So I am watching GCN of Conor watching GCN.
Love that team bus.
New Poll.... who is more awesome, Hank's dad or brother-in-law Nigel
Incredible, can we have an idea of the macronutrients of all these meals too?
2:30: Did you get Nigel's permission to sit in the tractor??
Q: What time does it get dark in Ireland in late September?
OR
What time does Conor go to bed?
Tractors tax and insurance expired nigh on a decade ago.
Absolute scenes.
Interesting :) Do you also have the macro nutrient breakdown?
Seeing all those carbs makes me shudder after going low carb for half a year now 🥴😭😂😂 I can feel my blood sugar spiking just watching this lmaoo
We really need to watch "Quick Ways To Get Fitter For Cyclists" after this video :D
Some people eat to live, others live to eat, but I ride to eat
I can’t get over the fact that his (seemingly massive) humble abode is just painted breeze blocks 😂
Elbows off the table!🚲😉
All good stuff.
Thanks. I just gained 2 pounds from watching this episode.
Best commentator ever. He is so humble and yet so funny
I might not be able to ride like a pro, or climb like a pro, but this? This is can beat them at hands down!
Did I hear you little race director complaining about you not eating ? :)
By the end of my last bike packing trip i was so sick of eating! I just wanted a day off food
Hi guys, amazing content, as always. What I would really like discussed is, the average diet on season versus off season, the diet in between big tours versus small tours, and everything in between. All I remember from my very brief experience, is going from consuming ridiculous amounts of food, to eating next to nothing, and then going straight back to eating ridiculous amounts of food. Imagine if Christian Bale was a pro cyclist with a new movie role every day, that was what I imagine.
When I was riding as food courier(4hrs work), I can easily eat more than those portions. 50kg 1.65m. Intestinal worms...maybe?
@8:18 - Thanks for showing us your plate but you missed the three blobs of ketchup. Eat up Conor!
How can Nagel bring You to the Start, when You sitting behind the SteeringWheel?!? 😊😉😁😄😂
I was full just looking at that breakfast!! I can't fathom eating that much in a day of racing! I still race Triathlon, Crits, TT's and Trail running races, and don't eat half the amount of food the Pro's eat at the Tour.
Len Wittrock The difference is they are racing for 3 straight weeks and can’t afford to be under nourished
I think they are in far better shape than you and have lower body fat percentage so they need this fuel. Try doing 15 days of their distance and come tell us how much you eat.
@08:28 the Conor looking for Nigel scene should have been scripted like the classic "Fenton! FENTONNN!" - "I want my massage! Nigel! NIGELLL!"
Nigel... legend status now
For many years, I did 8 to 10k calories every day for any reason, throughout Cross Country season, and 4 to 6 k during Track. My first century day on the bike was far more calories. 6k calories really isn't all that much.
I wonder how long it's going to be before we adopt the Camel Back for food and drink.
making me hungry, im off to get a bowl of cereals nom nom
THATS a lotta food!
Hearing the likes of Sam Bennett, Sean Kelly and Daniel Martin made me wonder: Why doesn't Conner sound Irish?
How did Hank not get this challenge? He does all the on-bike stuff and doesn't get the eating one? Maybe Conor was the only able presenter. I'd imagine it takes more to fuel a 2,04m cyclist!
Just the pre-sleep 'snack' was (converted to American) more than ONE POUND of food. Sheesh. The tour buses must have upgraded plumbing.
Considering he did the tour last year I would guess he won't have any problem.
How long was the ride? Also, season those eggs man!
What about the timing of breakfast? How many hours before "hard" effort would you want to eat a meal like that?