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This is the twelfth and last 2004-2005 issue of Fasterskier.com’s subscription service covering in-depth, modern and interesting issues in the sport of Cross-Country. This month we include one new article and a wrap-up of the past year’s articles. For non-subscribers, this is a great time to join. You'll get a summary of last year's in-depth articles and you can look forward to a full year of excellent cross country skiing articles. We occasionally offer bonus...

CENTRAL CROSS COUNTRY SKIING COACHES SYMPOSIUM MAY 20-22, 2005 CRESTHILL RESORT, HAYWARD, WI Dear Coaches, I am pleased to announce the 2005 Central Cross Country Skiing Coach’s Symposium. A learning weekend for Central Coaches at all levels; youth, middle and high school, junior, collegiate, young senior, club and adult. This year we will share with you the exceptional expertise and excellent knowledge of the coaches, wax technicians and Nordic program directors from the Central Division...

Source: Langrenn.com The Norwegian national team women’s coaches want to focus on individualizing and personalizing of the training for the skiers behind Bjorgen in order to make them better. Marit Bjorgen was in class by herself this season and the distance to the national team skiers behind her was bigger than what the coaches appreciated. – We need to focus more on the second best skiers. We will individualize the training better. Some of them...

Editor's Note:This article continues our discussion of the current state of US skiing and where we are headed in the future. To read the others, see the right-hand column of this page. This article is the US Ski Team's proposed Cross Country National Development System. This has been presented to the Cross Country Committee, and will be discussed at the conference in May in Park City. Why, What, How and When WHY: Our general level...

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on FasterSkier.com in April 2005. We are reprinting it because it is a good reminder for this time of year. April should for most skiers be the main recovery month. Some of you might have ended the season early while others raced until late March or beginning of April. The need for recovery is in other words very individual. An elite skier that traveled to races for six month...

April should for most skiers be the main recovery month. Some of you might have ended the season early while others raced until late March or beginning of April. The need for recovery is in other words very individual. An elite skier that traveled to races for six month and did 40-50 competitions might have a much higher need for complete recovery/rest than a citizen skier that raced 10-15 races. See our 2003 mini-series that...

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The March issue This month we again include two articles: 1. Physical Training for your health and quality of life – a summary of the main “modern” concepts for endurance and strength training, also applied to all levels of athletes and active people. We borrowed this article from our friends at the University of Trondheim, Norway. Research professors Helgerud and Hoff are heavily involved in testing and training of high level athletes (including CC skiers,...

US Ski Team coach Trond Nystad has been reading the in-depth articles in our monthly FasterSkier.com Club newsletter. We recently asked him if these articles were helpful to him and if he thought the information was useful to others in the ski community. “I think the articles you guys provide in the Club Subscription Service are very interesting and of very high quality. I always look forward to receiving the newsletters as it keeps me...

Source: Langrenn.com Norwegian skiers have struggled in skating for a long time, but did better than expected in the men’s pursuit at Worlds. The coach explains why. Note: These comments were said before the men’s 4 x 10-kilometer relay. Since Krister Sorgard took over as head coach for the Norwegian men’s team he has hammered them on their skate technique. We now see the results of the hard work. – We started a process where...