Norwegian Method
The Culture, Science, and Humans Behind the Groundbreaking Approach to Elite Endurance Performance
- 256 pages
- English
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Norwegian Method
The Culture, Science, and Humans Behind the Groundbreaking Approach to Elite Endurance Performance
About this book
Find out how a sparsely-populated country came to dominatethe world of endurance sports and get ablueprint for high performance. Norway has long stacked the field with champions in sports like Nordic skiing and sailing, but a new generation of athletes has arrived on the endurance scene, smashing records and grabbing medals in running, cycling, and triathlon. Sports journalist Brad Culp unpacks the rise of the Norwegian method and its meticulous scientific protocols, which upend long-held beliefs about training and performance. With its rugged terrain and harsh weather, Norway has a way of hardening competitors for any test. Culp explores the how the Scandinavian culture imbues a unique biopsychosocial approach to performance. He also introduces the athletes, coaches, and scientists who are shaking up the world of endurance sports. Their secret? Plenty of volume at low intensity, punctuated with hard-fought double-threshold workouts, which seems to turn workhorses into winners—they know when to hold back and when to go all-out. The Norwegian Method is a real-life story of how discipline and determination can be employed to overcome seemingly impossible odds and achieve breakthrough performances. Culp drives this point home by introducing U.S. pros who have reconfigured their training to look more like that of Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Kristian Blummenfelt, and how endurance athletes can adopt the same methods in their own pursuit of high performance.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 The Vikings Introduce Themselves
- 2 Sailing, Sustained Momentum, and Sport
- 3 Ingrid Kristiansen: The Mother of the Method
- 4 A Natural Pipeline for Athletic Development
- 5 Arild Tveiten: The Innovator
- 6 Training Principles of the Norwegian Method
- 7 Marius Bakken: The Godfather
- 8 Mexico City and the Birth of Altitude Training
- 9 Olav Aleksander Bu: The Mastermind
- 10 Modern Norway and the Golden Generation
- 11 Kristian Blummenfelt: The Terminator
- 12 Gustav Iden: The Jester
- 13 Feel the Heat: The Effect of Core Body Temperature
- 14 Jakob Ingebrigtsen: The Chosen One
- 15 Lactate Testing: Why the Target Is Lower and Slower
- 16 The Big Thing: Double-Threshold Training
- 17 The Art and Science of Peaking
- Epilogue
- Appendix
- Acknowledgments
- Resources
- About the Author