Every training session Aukland carries out must be for five hours. He repeats this five days a week, before taking two days off. Aukland has in fact changed the training completely in its last season with commitment, something news recently mentioned here. Aukland himself describes his new training regime as “a little crazy”, but he is not alone in that. Olympic gold medalist Nils van der Poel is the inspiration, and the Swedish cross-country skier Per Elofsson was also a supporter of this way of training. – Can work well for Aukland Thomas Losnegaard, subject manager for endurance training at the Olympic Summit, believes Aukland’s method is a fairly recognized way to periodize the training. – It is a model that can work well. He trains a lot, but a lot of calm. This means that the total training load is inside. This is an athlete who has trained a lot for very many years, and then surely this will work well for him. The question is whether it is the most effective way to do it, says Losnegaard to news. Thomas Losnegaard believes the 5-2 model can work well. Photo: Pressebilde / NIH – Do you want to say that it is an effective method? – I would think that it is an effective method over a certain period. Of course, you can not hold on like that for very long. You can not do that all season, but over a month or two it can be good, says Losnegaard. There will be a pain limit where you will have to change the training program eventually and go back to training less, but harder, the Olympiatoppen expert believes. – Then the overall training load will be quite similar. But when you have in mind he should be good at, namely going long ski runs, this can be a good way to think about training, says Losnegaard. Changes in the autumn Aukland tells news that he will only do this for a certain period. Now he trains five days with five hours every day, and then he has two rest days a week. In total, it is a little over a hundred hours a month. – There will be a lot of mass training now in May, June, July and August, and then I will train much harder in the autumn, he says to news. Warns “ordinary people” Olympiatoppen head of department Losnegaard comes at the same time as a warning to “ordinary people” who read this and may be tempted to throw themselves on the Aukland method. He does not believe that such training will make the regular exerciser a better athlete. – I think they get worse. And I think it will stop quite quickly, and that they will not be able to implement this, simply. An ordinary person would never be able to handle that amount of training. In that case, the intensity must have been very, very low, but then I think there would have been other ways that are more suitable for improving their performance, says Losnegaard. His colleague Sondre Skarli is a responsible professional consultant for endurance at the Olympic summit. He describes the method as very exciting. – For Nils van der Poel, it has worked very well. It is also nothing new that large volumes have proven to work well at the top level. We have seen this in many sports and for many athletes. Nils has blocked the training, a period block that has stood out from many others, and thus he has received a lot of attention for the 5-2 method, Skarli says to news. What Skarli believes has been Nils van der Poel’s formula for success, and which Aukland has been inspired by, is the ability to take enough time off from training and allow the body time to absorb the training. Sondre Skarli believes many can learn from the Nils van der Poel model. Photo: Terje Pedersen / NTB scanpix He points out that there are very many who are good at exercising a lot, but he believes that many who are good at exercising a lot, can often be a little afraid to listen to the body and take time off. Many who are sloppy Although he thinks the method can work, he, like Losnegaard, is skeptical about whether the man in the street should make an attempt to copy it. – Ordinary people have a reverse methodology in that they have more time to exercise on the weekends and not so much on weekdays. Ordinary people often do not have the opportunity to set aside as many hours for training, says Skarli. Nevertheless, he believes there are several things about the method that can also be useful for exercisers, first and foremost how useful it is to listen to your own body and adjust the training accordingly. – There are many who are sloppy. Have clear goals for the periods and be very careful about intensity management, he points out. Eirik Myhr Nossum is impressed by the dedication. Photo: Heiko Junge / NTB The cross-country national team’s success coach Eirik Myhr Nossum follows the case with interest and says he already in the Olympics read 70 percent of Nils van der Poel’s 62-page document with «training secrets». He read the remaining 30 percent after the games, and thus fully understands what the Nils van der Poel method entails. – It is very exciting in a way. What I might draw from it is the dedication he has had and the belief in the scheme. If you break down the work requirements for what he does, as opposed to what we do, then there are two different work requirements, says the cross-country coach. – What is more impressive for me, is what you read between the lines, the dedication he has had, and the ownership he has taken to his own development. That’s the key to it. There are many roads leading to Rome. But the fastest paths are through faith and dedication, and there he has been far ahead in the class, he adds. Aukland believes he has little to lose by trying this new training regime in his last competitive season with full commitment. – I have probably not gone super fast in recent years, I have gone fast a couple of times a year. I dare to take some chances, and that’s really what I do now, he says.
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