A remark on the reach and upper bounds on some extrinsic geometry invariants of submanifolds

We consider a compact submanifold $M$ of a Riemannian manifold $N$ and we use the second variation formula as a tool to drive some geometric results on reach$(M,N)$ the reach of $M$ in $N$, including some useful relations between the extrinsic geometry of $M$ in $N$ and reach$(M,N)$. Our results generalize some theorems previously proved for the special case where $N$ is Euclidean space.