Coaching Conflict On The Norwegian National Team

Source: Langrenn.com

Over the last few weeks there have been several articles on how the men and women on the Norwegian national team train. There are obviously some differences. First and foremost it deals with training prioritization, how one divides up the training volume from week to week. The men train hard and easy all the time while the women will have periods of up to week and a half once a month, of only high intensity training. The other weeks their training will be mainly easy workouts, or as the Norwegian’s women’s coach Svein Tore Samdal puts it: -Good old fashion Nordic training.