Training talk with Eirik Myhr Nossum, national team coach of Norway's cross-country skiing team | EP#245

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

Health, Swimming, Endurancesports, Run, Cycling, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Ironman, Swim, Bike, Sports, Running, Sportscience, Triathlon

4.9 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Eirik Myhr Nossum is head coach of the Norwegian cross-country skiing national team. In this interview we discuss his training and coaching philosophy for cross-country skiing and generally for endurance training, and how it applies to elite and amateur endurance athletes, respectively. IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT: -Eirik's general training and coaching philosophy -The training of world-class cross-country skiers -Polarised training and training volume -Interval and threshold training -Periodisation -Performance testing -Advice for age-group endurance athletes SHOWNOTES: https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts245/ SCIENTIFIC TRIATHLON AND THAT TRIATHLON SHOW WEBPAGE: www.scientifictriathlon.com/podcast SPONSORS: Precision Hydration - One-size doesn't fit all when it comes to hydration. Take Precision Hydration's FREE sweat test and learn how you should hydrate. Use the discount code THATTRIATHLONSHOW15 to get 15% off your order OR use the code THATTRIATHLONSHOW and get your first box for free. ROKA - The finest triathlon wetsuits, apparel, equipment, and eyewear on the planet. Trusted by Javier Gómez, Gwen Jorgensen, Flora Duffy, Mario Mola, Lucy Charles and others. Visit roka.com/tts for 20% off your order. LINKS AND RESOURCES: Prestasjonsprat - Eirik's podcast Polarised training with Stephen Seiler, PhD | EP#177 Training Priorities: Seiler’s Hierarchy of Endurance Training Needs | EP#120 RATE AND REVIEW: If you enjoy the show, please help me out by subscribing, rating and reviewing: www.scientifictriathlon.com/rate/ CONTACT: Want to send feedback, questions or just chat? Email me at mikael@scientifictriathlon.com or connect on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter.

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0:00.0	I would not, never call it that we train a lot on threshold, but I think to train a lot of your hard sessions with control.
0:11.5	That I think is very important.
0:14.3	And we do that a lot.
0:17.8	That Traflon Show, 245.
0:32.6	Yeah. That Traathlon Show, 245. Hey, what's up, everybody, and welcome back to another episode of that triathlon show, the podcast
0:39.2	presented by Scientific Traathlon.com.
0:42.7	I'm our host Michael, and on today's episode, I interview Eric Mier-Mir Nossum, who is the head
0:47.7	coach of the Norwegian cross-country skiing national team.
0:50.9	In this interview, we discuss his training and coaching philosophy for cross-country skiing
0:55.1	and generally for endurance training and how it applies to elite and to amateur endurance athletes.
1:03.0	In the first part of the interview, we do talk a fair bit about cross-country skiing specifically.
1:08.6	Of course, myself being from Finland, it's definitely part of
1:11.7	my cultural heritage as well, and it was fascinating to get some insights into the training
1:16.8	aspects of world-class skiers, but also insights into things like long-term athlete development
1:23.2	in cross-country skiing in Norway. But don't be discouraged if you could not care less about
1:28.8	cross-country skiing because much of even the first part of the interview is very relevant for
1:35.6	all endurance athletes, no matter what your sport. But if you do want to skip past the cross-country
1:41.7	skiing culture and long-term athlete development in
1:44.4	Norwegian skiers then by all means do so. But after we cover those topics, we shift to very
1:50.7	general endurance sports topics like periodization, interval training, performance testing and so on.
1:56.6	So there's a lot of gold here no matter what your personal preference in terms of endurance
2:02.7	sports.
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