How the Norwegian Method Is Changing Endurance Training

They and New Zealand are the nations that punch above their weight more than any one else

If the Norwegian method is so great, then why don’t they dominate all of the endurance events? What about the marathon? What about the 3K Steeplechase? What about the 10K? The 5K? The Norwegians can not hold a candle to the achievements of East Africans in distance track events. Just because 3 or 4 Norwegians do well in track doesn’t mean anything.

What’s 5x6 min mean? And 10x3 min?

Roger Bannister did a version of this approach in the 1950s.

Swimming has been doing high volume threshold training for years. John Urbancheck was devolving a system for it in the 80s. Cool to see it in other sports

Of course, maybe Ingebrigtsen is looking for an article about the 'Scottish Method'. 😉

My understanding is that treadmill running can increase the risk of a stress fracture because you hit the ground in nearly the same way every time. The variance in footing outside on the other hand distributed the load a bit.

I'm pretty sure many have done this; I remember reading that Kenyans trained this way back in the 80's/90's.

Good doctors , a better doping program

Bullshit

Don't they rest for 2 minutes in the 5x6min session?
Do you think the system still works for a regular runner if they aren't able to run twice a day?
I got injured a few months ago and decided to come back using their method. Starting at 2x6mins I now do 5x6min one day, 10x3min another day and then VO2 max workouts instead of the 200m hill sprints. People who run similar times to me are running their threshold paces around 1kph faster than mine so I'm interested to see if I can get back to my previous 5k PB. But the training feels more manageable than a previous 5k training plan, which got me a good time but didn't feel sustainable towards the end.

What lactate testing kit is that? How much is it ? Do you have any recommendations for getting one ?

It’s the mitochondria

I honestly think the only way ubisoft is gonna revive AC is by creating another Ezio character. Like, let us grow alongside the character. Not the current thing where we already seem them as adults or already accomplished assassins. How are we supposed to symphatize with already established characters? We don't even know their backstories. Idc about them.

Norwegians on top athlete level take more stuff than oatmeal.. everybody knows that

It would have been useful if you'd specified the heart rate intensity of the "controlled threshold" and sweetspot sessions. I assume its around 85% of heart rate max? on rhe bike sweetspot/sub threshold is usually 90% of ftp

Double threshold is done for decades in body building.
Heart monitors, 70% maximum training, sets/internals, cardio acceleration etc.
I think what needs more looking into is cross discipline training and research.

Norwegian method: Run to Norway straight to my cave and I, Count Dracula will feast on your blood.

Or they just got a brand new drug program.

Mathematically improbable how much Norway wins in a variety of sports from tennis to hurdles to distance to beach volleyball. Hm, what aren’t they telling us?

This is great and a lot of footballers looking to improve their cardio base would benefit from seeing this nice summary, keep up the great work! I’ll be sharing training and physio videos weekly feel free to check it out if you’re interested!

Norway doesn’t have a training method because it doesn’t have a centralized, state run athletic development program. This is shit clickbait.

Well researched

So basically there are 2 threshold days, an even faster day and then slow/long/recovery or the gigahertz intensity day replace one of the 2 threshold?

Can someone please summarise?

Good one!

tedious

This seems really reductionist. You wont be a gold metalist in anything just by adopting some new technique. These people have genetics, diets, discipline, and most importantly, money. All of that contributed to their performance

I use a treadmill but do not run. I do 4 mph at 12 degrees for about 2.6 miles. Good exercise for a person whose knees can’t take running.

Veronik Bilat : a sports physiologist in France was a pioneer in this type of training and at a Running camp at Peperdine University in 2001 we did Lactate monitoring during and after a 3000 meter test run.
To find out best Running speed for training and where you're at in you're fitness !
Veronik spoke on this type of training during the week long camp and has written many articles about this and was training African runners for marathons.

As far as I understood, the Ingebrigtsen adapted this double threshold system more and more as a search to avoid injuries. Injuries would come up again and again, so they looked for safer ways to increase volume. That becomes very important for professional runners and helps you accumulate volume.

Vampire teeth of host is amusing

Thank you very much. Quick question; at 8.31 you mention vertical displacement, shouldn't it be called horizontal ? Thanks.

"ressaultes"

He needs to do something about that tooth. Seriously. Get that tooth pulled.

would recommend double threshold training for shorter races like 400 and 800?

I have been using a polarized training program on the bike and have never been happier.

Graeme Orbree trained exactly this way in the 90s for his pursuit world titles, his reckoning was that each round was a race effort there were two of these per day for the two day event

He trained at race speed or dead slow recovery nothing in between

There’s no famous Norwegian bodybuilders though

Hello, it is interesting to hear that long sweetspot sessions (slightly below 4mmol) are beneficial for runners. But do you know how does it translates for cyclists where 80:20 is popular? Essencially, interval session in or above treshold?

The Kenyans be like 😏

these ideas are key in rowing, and have been in rowing for a long time.

I've read on several running forums that Norwegian proxy for the lactate meter is 85% of max HR. Is this true? As I understood it, the idea is that 85% MHR is conservative approach, providing cushion so that you avoid drifting past threshold rate which is generally anywhere from 88-92% of MHR depending on how highly trained the runner is.

Does this apply to 800m training?

Mycket bra!

So basically. Z4 work, some sweet spot work, high frequency workouts.

Let me know when you beat J. Vingegaard when We talk about Ultimate Endurance🇩🇰🌞

A good video about the topic. Thank you!

Great video!