Run Long, Run Healthy — June 20, 2024
World’s Best Training Strategies; Don’t Ever Make This Mistake; Male Endurance Athletes & Low Sperm
PLUS: All body types can be healthy, but careful about your weight; Best sports after knee surgery; Illustrated guide to better running form
Training Secrets Of The World’s Best Endurance Coaches
In a wide range of recent international endurance-sport championships, Norwegian athletes have won more than 350 medals. That’s an impressive result for a small country, and it has happened, at least in part, because the Norwegian sports system encourages strong communication of scientific principles among coaches.
Now Norway is sharing its story with the world. In an epic new report, several well-known Norwegian researchers have pulled together the strategies that worked in major sports like running, triathlon, nordic skiing, rowing, and swimming.
They used an interesting model to get at this key information, following “the key informant technique in ethnographic research.” After gathering lots of preliminary data, they interviewed each coach for at least 3 hours to get the real nitty-gritty.
