Chris Carmichael - Ultimate Trainer

About Chris Carmichael
Founder, CEO, and president of Carmichael Training Systems, Chris Carmichael is the personal coach for seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong.

In 2004, he was awarded the USA Cycling Lifetime Achievement Award and was inducted into the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame in May 2003. He's been honored as the United States Olympic Committee's Coach of the Year and athletes under his tutelage have won a combined total of 33 medals at the Olympics, World Championships, and Pan American Games. In 1997, he joined the Union Cycliste Internationale (the international governing body for cycling headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland) as Olympic Solidarity Coaching Instructor. Carmichael was a member of the U.S. National Cycling Team from 1978 to 1984, rode in the 1984 Olympics, and was part of the first American team to ride in the Tour de France in 1986.

He is the author of the New York Times Bestseller Chris Carmichael's Food For Fitness: Eat Right to Train Right and The Ultimate Ride and co-author of The Lance Armstrong Performance Program, with Lance Armstrong. Carmichael coaches a host of elite athletes including Discovery Channel rider and four-time Olympian George Hincapie and world- record-beating swimmer Ed Moses.

Chris Carmichael's Fitness Cookbook
by Chris Carmichael with Jim Rutberg

Chris Carmichael's Fitness Cookbook brings the revolutionary nutrition program from Chris Carmichael's Food for Fitness together with the culinary expertise of world-renown chef Mark Tarbell, to create a new kind of cookbook. Packed with recipes designed to provide the fuel and healthy nutrients you need to support your active lifestyle, this book features key ingredients for different times of the year, as well as a quick-reference guide to nutritional highlights.

Listen to Chris Carmichael's ABC radio interview regarding his new book

ABC Radio Interview Part 1

ABC Radio Interview Part 2

The Lance Armstrong Performance Program: Seven Weeks to the Perfect Ride
by Lance Armstrong, Chris Carmichael & Peter Joffre Nye (contributor)

Armstrong teams up with his coach, Chris Carmichael (whom the U.S. Olympic Committee named 1999's Coach of the Year), to offer the ultimate insider's guide to becoming a better rider, based on the regimen Carmichael has been fine-tuning for Armstrong since the early 1990s.

Chris Carmichael has trained many of the world's best cyclists, and now he offers his invaluable training tips, cutting-edge workout programs, and state-of-the-art exercises to help readers find their ultimate ride. In this book, he gives riders of all abilities an insider's guide to getting fitter, faster, and on to the champion's platform.

With photographs and illustrated exercises, The Ultimate Ride helps build a strong foundation for incremental leaps in fitness, times, and techniques. Nutritional advice, goal-setting methods, and mental exercises complement the physical training tips, to make this the only cycling fitness book an enthusiast will ever need.

"It's ironic, I used to ride my bike to make a living. Now I just want to live so that I can ride."
-Lance Armstrong