Øysteinâ€The Sausage†Pettersen feels stronger than ever. He credits how he feels to a new training plan developed with the Norwegian sprint national team.
Not afraid anymore
– I was very skeptical to how the sprinters were training until I tried it myself. I was thinking that “I can’t handle thisâ€. But I have learned after changing my training to doing hard workouts every day that you can train a lot tougher than you think, says Pettersen.
At least one hard workout per day is on the agenda.
– I’m not afraid of doing two hard workouts per day anymore. I have experienced that my body responds the best when I’m training a lot. I felt a little tired before the start of the recent sprint race in Sandnes, but the race went very well. I have almost completely stopped doing distance training. As an example, I am pushing toward threshold when I do a 2 hour continous rollerski workout. I’m doing some easy workouts, but it’s basically for recovery.
Mental surplus
– You don’t believe that you’ll get in shape too early?
