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Training characteristics of world class distance runners with Øyvind Sandbakk, PhD | EP#363

That Triathlon Show

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The Best Athletes Are Often Ahead of Science, Right?

I always am surprised by just how frequently there are really excellent papers coming out of Norway in general and quite often from your lab at NTNU. We will be quite focused in this interview because there's obviously a lot we could talk about, but we will talk about a relatively newly published study that you were involved with with the training characteristics of world-class distance runners. So can you introduce this research, what was the background behind setting out to do this kind of review? Yeah, first I want to acknowledge Thomas Hagen, who took the initiative for this study; he teamed up with Aspen Thomas, someone who's been a sailor, so we were kind of a group of four

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