Continue to read if you are curious to see how the Norwegian junior National Team is training.
The team’s new coach, Jon Arne Schjetne is dividing the year into seven different blocks. Each such block or period is focusing on certain things that get high priority in this period. This can be: especially long workouts, easy training, strength, speed or capacity (max VO2).
 is the need for a certain number of workouts in a concentrated time period for this particular skill or capacity to improveâ€</p>
<p>Some people have made comparisons to the (new) way the Norwegian Women’s team is training with blocks of large number of high intensity sessions and the junior teams training. Schjetne disagrees (with this):</p>
<p> “There are no similarities. It can look this way since we have agreed to make the training camps relatively hard. The camps have also been in the capacity block.â€</p>
<p>There are big individual differences in training volume between the skiers on the team. Previous volume, age and personal development are considered when deciding each skier's suggested training.</p>
<p>“It’s very individual. Hours vary between 470 and 600 per year. None of the girls are much over 530 hours.”</p>
<p>Schjetne has focused a great deal on teaching the skiers intensity control. This is important in order to log and register what was (really) done/trained.</p>
<p>“We are trying to educate the skiers about this. You need to be accurate when you log what you did in order to make the log a valuable tool. You can’t just log what was planned. We are using an intensity scale from 1-5 and the skiers are logging the intensity used in each workout. This way we know what each skier did for training.â€</p>
<p>He explains that the junior team is mostly using three of the five intensities.</p>
<p>“We are not using intensity 2 and 4 much. We are mostly using 1, 3 and 5. These are intensities you should be able to reach without lactate test or other training aids.â€</p>
<p>Intensity 5 is 90-95% of max heart-rate. Schjetne estimates that 75-80% of the training is done as intensity one. A lot of the training is in other words easy.</p>
<p>Schjetne is also trying to get the skiers to hold back a little on the first interval in interval workouts to get off to a good start. They are using a variety of interval types but they are in general spending 20-25 minutes at high intensity.</p>
<p>Torbjorn’s comment: </p>
<p>Please note that many articles published on Fasterskier.com have referred to heart-rate 90-95% of max heart-rate as intensity 4 (when using a 1-5 scale) and 95-100% of max as intensity 5.</p>
<p>Intensity 4 has in those articles been referred to as the main capacity training zone. There is no disagreement with Schjetne regarding where the training to increase capacity should be done, but that heart rate area is (most) often referred to as intensity 4 (also in Norway).</p>
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