Can Lance Fight Back?

I don’t think so. After losing nearly 3 minutes in yesterday’s mountain stage, Lance Armstrong will have to pull off a miracle ride to recover such a time deficit.
The Giro is just into the first week of its 3 week length but the selection was made on the last mountain climb [...]

Get Rid of the Gluten!

From www.Velonews.Com - Christian Vande Velde came into his own last season with a run of stunning successes: A strong showing at the Tour of California, the pink jersey at the Giro, a stellar fourth place in the Tour de France, and to cap the season, the Tour of Missouri overall win.
This year [...]

Unselfish Armstrong Looking Good

Two days ago, Lance showed up in New Mexico racing under a different team name. Instead of racing under his European colors and sponsors of “Astana”, he and team mates, Chris Horner, and Levi Leipheimer are racing in black, representing “Mellow Johnny”.
“Mellow Johnny” is not only the bike shop in Austin Texas that [...]

Extreme Training 1 - Stair Running

I grew up about 1/2 mile from Binghamton University. The winters were long and cold in Upstate NY so I had to do a significant amount of training inside.
One of the methods that I used to really tax the body and prepare it for the Spring Races was to run the [...]

Lance Ok’ed for Tour…Giro right around the Corner!

Lance Armstrong has been cleared to race the Tour de France by the French Drug Authorities! This is big news for Team Livestrong for there was talk about the French trying to snub Armstrong by keeping him out.
No doubt this would be a dumb decision and I am really happy to hear [...]

Garage Training Series - Part 1

Ok, just a quick post here today. I just got a call from my client who I trained here to go and check out the road near my house. Apparently, he kind of lost his cookies, and left them in the middle of street. Muahuhauahahuahuahuhauahu! Can’t wait to see this! (Keep in [...]

Tracking Lance - Will he be ready for the Giro?

Lance Armstrong is back in Austin, TX, rehabbing his shoulder after a crash in Europe that broke his collarbone. Lance is not hiding the fact that he is hurting. Jet lag, pain killers, metal screws and non-stop travel will make for one banged up cyclist after such a traumatic event.
This right here folks, [...]

Lance Breaks Collarbone

As promised, PisaniTraining will closely follow Lance Armstrong’s comeback to Professional Road Cycling. We reported that Lance’s training and preparation was going ahead of schedule with a top 10 performance in this year’s Tour of California. In all of Lance’s Tour victories, he has never crashed like this and I was keeping a [...]

Couples Kettlebell - Brumme’s Get it Done

Although the kettle bell has been around for hundreds of years, it has withstood the test of time, and is now being used by 1000’s of people all over the world. I have fallen in love with the kettle bell and plan on using it for the rest of my life. [...]

The Rest Day Ride - Active Recovery

When I was racing my bicycle, I had a good idea as to what I was going to do each day if I was racing on Sat and Sun. Most cyclists wear a heart rate monitor when they train. I could right a whole book on the importance of monitoring your heart while [...]