The Norwegian Method - Kristian Blummenfelt & Gustav Iden's Winter Lab Testing 

The nice thing here is the teamwork. Coach and two athletes are communicating well, have same aims, same belief in correct method. They get along. They think together

I need a multiple episode documentary filmed on all of this!

Having all this data over multiple years must be a game changer

Very cool. Excited to see what comes next from team Norway!

What an interesting and scientifically advanced way to advertise Red Bull energy drinks! Well done, guys, bravo!

Kristian Blummenfelt body is so fascinating for an endurance athlete, he almost looks overweight in the bike testing. I wonder if his heart and lungs are bigger and that explains how big his torso is.

This is way above all the technical levels I could see during the decade of studying triathletes' training... the amount of data analysis and the general proficiency in gathering the data is on the level of the best cycling teams, maybe even above them in some cases... Crazy...

Intense opening - love it - great stuff 🎉

Gustav's like, "what, my VO2max is 96? I was really hoping it would be 69..."

Very cool! Looking forward to seeing more about the journey to Paris 24

This type of detail combined with EPO is a powerful entity that cannot be matched 💪

With Hard work alone you can be good but to become elite your training has to become next level

What an exciting time to be alive! 😁🙌🏻 can’t wait to see what these guys will do next!

Every time I watch these kinda videos I get hella motivated.

So cool. Can’t wait to see how good they are this season never mind 2024.

this video was amazing... i don't need them, but now I want to buy all the products in this video

These Norwegian team is awesome !

Great video. Learn what the limiters are, maximise use of training time, work backwards from objectives. Really interested to see what you learn from the core temp sensors. Something we are experimenting with at the moment. Great to see you using Moxy.

Lionels somewhere punching air right now

This is inspirational!! Thanks 📈

ive got a feeling these dudes are on the juice.

7:07 min… just around 7 Liters vo2 😮 this 🇳🇴 is absolutly out of this world 🌍

it is amazing if you compare how they look... the body appearance is not very lean, not muscular... (and I mean not in this video but in competition) let say compare again with LS. I know appearance doesn't say anything, but these are the guys on the top of the game by far. Although this is an endurance sport like cycling, but in cycling when looking at the GC guys, the how lean and the how fit are very related. this video also shows the disparity of the investment of resources... this is a true team with a vision and a history of learning. again, compering, this is ineos and other guys.... maybe Arkea. Great approach of professionalism and smart and hard work for the "Norwegians" pushing the limits!!!

This is intense!

Amazing work guys 🎉 well done

Its cool to see how they fine tune the EPO protocol

Amazing and inspirational!!

I believe in science, so I am not worried about the outcome, and of course, teamwork is the key to success.

Whose paying for all this? 7 ? guys on team, 2 being athletes. Norwegian govt pays? If so that’s so nice for the athlete. Total dedication shown here. Love it

My secret is pumping up my tires every ride

omg we do know others have watched and gone through seintific approach as well but i think this is another level. heyden and yee should do some homework if they want a chance in paris.

Wish they’d go into more detail on the metabolic tech - not giving away secrets of course! But what are all those gadgets?? Quad patch monitor? Etc. Give us more!

nice work 👏👏👏

the norwegian method is simple - just train longer, more often at higher pace then anyone, then race faster than anyone in history, with races more close together and and across more distances than anyone in history.....and win them all in record time !!! they dominate like those guys in the tdf!!!

Did anyone else think of Ivan Drago in the opening scene?

When Lance was dominating in the TDF i also thought he and his team were implementing science better than the competition. How naive is was back then. Well... in a way he was implementing science i guess... Since then im verrrry skeptical when is see atheletes crushing the field like never seen before. And now smoke is starting to appear with Collin being caught... im suspecting a fire somewhere.

Very good. Very intelligent. Great psychological approach. Is anyone looking at mitochondrial concentration??

Great Video and fascinating to watch. now, can i afford any piece of that system...

yep, now its clear to me why we won't have an American Olympic medalist or winner of the Ironman any time soon. Waiting for someone to yell "Dragoooooo" at the end

😮 another level

Reminds me of Rocky 4 with the Russian boxer training montage

Blummenfelt has just a fucking ungodly engine

you are great!!

Kristian's off season metabolic numbers must be attributable to the Taiwan sugar coated strawberries on a stick!

Love it

Good Stuff. Understanding the human body is the key ! 🤓

Crazy stuff

can someone explain to me, how this guy can sit so comfortably in the air at 07:48?

Trabalho+Trabalho e + Trabalho O segredo Abraço desde Aveiro 🇵🇹

Does this mean they won’t be competing in Kona this year I suppose ? And focus purely on Olympics?

All that sophisticated technology and the dude drank a red bull lmao

The Norway team are letting cameras into the lab.. brooooh?!!!

Olav looks like the child of David Bowie and Steven Wilson.

Amazing work. Awesome 👍

So the question is- Is it all about knowledge/understanding of your body and yourself better than others, and then shape it as you want ?

Their mid distance track guys are stellar (Ingelbrestian bros). Wonder is they’re tapping into this??

sweater is off teh chain

great video! interesting to see the limits of the human body! what's the ultra book model used in the pool (min 07:30)?

that is insane.

Looks like the Ivan Drago training

TrainerRoad 😊

Do you do a nutritional profile?

Are you doing this lab work with other tri athletes? If so, who?

it gives me Ivan Drago kind of vibe

charger comme des mulesles norvégiens

They laugh at your Garmin and Polar . Lab Monsters

I truly deeply hope these guys will never be popped with a doping test. I will absolutely lose faith in this sport that I grew to love and admire. All this that they’re showing is super impressive and expensive. Few athletes will ever be able to try any of this, but if behind the scene they are just abusing something no one is supposed to know… well, we will all eventually find out and expose them.

What is the difference between tri and normal athletes? Performance wise. Like professional cyclists push maybe past 400W ftp but what are these guys doing?

Wonder how K Blu decides which Red Bull hat he's gonna wear in the shower? At Christmas?

drinking redbull in pool))

Feels like there should be a spending limit, like how F1 does it, since few other triathletes can afford this level of assistance

The secret is they didn't do any season break. I cannot remember they took one day off since Kona. Why should their values drop?

Is that Jack Daniels in a couple of scenes or am I mistaken?

You guys just need to consult Doctor Ferrari to reach peak physical performance 😋

Too complicated?

Hi. Can I use 2 x 10s clips in a video I am producing different coaching methods?

You gather a lot of data from your athletes - what importance has their feeling for you ?

If you don't have access to this level of testing equipment, can the Norwegian method still work for most professional and age group triathletes?

#svett

Juiced up much?

To me they are likely making a fundamental mistake: the two athletes are quite different 1) Gustav can win 4 more Ironman championships. 5 in a row. He’s not going to excel at oly distance. 2) Kristian is a short course racer. Up to 1/2 Ironman. Powerful thick body. He cd give up on Ironman. Gustav will always beat him there. But k can win oly again and a bunch of short course. W Gustav short course doesn’t fit. W Kristian long course doesn’t fit

Javier Gomez won ITU world championship 5 times and won 70.3 world champs 2 times without real preparation. Then he won ironman Cairns 2018 and Ironman Malaysia 2019. Norwegians forgot that Gomez beat both Blumenfeldt and Iden in WTS Bermuda 2019 in his first olympic distance after training 1.5 years long distance. And if we are honest Blumenfeldt is olympic champion, world champion, but Iden was never top ITU athlete. Blumi showed in Tokyio that he is the boss, Iden still needs to prove himself in ITU racing

Starting from zero is the biggest lie spoken on the planet!

for sure they can go "far beyond it" - just increase ped´s and here we go... this is soooo hilarious...

Germans will copy soon 😂🤣🤭

It’s great they do these videos but “data this, data that” equals downvote. You learn nothing. Even if it’s rough numbers, some takeaway. I’ll stick to coffee ☕️ cheers! 😅

in start hes shouting `` u need to get above 7 L ( 1 Liter is 1000 ml

Sugar and cadence FTW!

The Maurten and Red Bull bs wrecks an otherwise interesting look at the testing and training. Good thing you have the CGM on you arm to measure that poison. Teach, don't sell.

This seems way over the top. I'd be curious to see how the testing actually impacts the training plan.

The coache's Norwegian sailing team hoodie is so 🔥. Anyone know where to get one?

Holy f

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