Thorbjorn finally updated his blog…I knew had changed a lot of things after Hawaii but was curious to see it put into action…what the changes actually were gonna be.
Seems like is is off the old motto…more is more and and am rethinking his training.
Sould be intresting…
Check his blog. http://www.sindballe.dk/default.aspx?pageId=32
just remember age groupers, if you are running 20mpw and biking 100mpw
more is more still definitely applies to you!
=)
Remember that Thor has many years of big training under his belt. The majority of regular folks (i.e., me!) could stand to do - simply - more (as jackmott said). Just my 2wo cents.
Hmm… I think I know where he’s getting some of his ideas from… based on another post on this forum recently…
Or train simply more effectively with the time you have…
Most of us "regular folks can’t find more time, but we can make better use of the time we have.
Very true! However, I’m a bit biased towards the more is more deal. I’ve met every goal I’ve ever set by simply throwing more hours at the “problem.” My lifestyle used to let me do that. Plus, I hate speedwork 
Ah young jedi… you have much to learn…
The sport is littered with burnt out athletes who piled on the mileage year after year… only to get slower after some initial success.
It’s not like I’m training 40 hours per week I’ve only been at it for about 15 years now, and I love it more than ever!!!
Firt of all I am by no means trying to teach anyone…just thinking out lound
To a certain point I will agree with you. Being somewhat new to endurancesports more can be more and will do for a good base but if you are static about you relationship to your body will create problems - most likely. Stess is good but if you repeat the same stress it will become a habit and not a stessor in which your body will respond to…what happens with the more volume approch is that you will become faster and faster but at one point you will slow down and can stay struggling trying to train more or rethink the way you do things.
I think it’s good to hear a guy like THorbjorn be open about what he is doing…should be intresting to see what will happen
I think that there is a time and place for everything and it wasn’t because of the things Thorbjorn hasn’t done that has made him have a difficult time finding that steady preformance level.
intensity x duration = workload
Your current lifestyle doesn’t dictate more mileage as you said.
What else can you do to increase the workload… hmmm…
EDIT: It’s not as simple as increasing workload… it’s about increasing recovery, motor patterns, etc… doing endless hours of LSD is not effective training.
Speedwork is a dirrrty word in my household. Noooooo!!!
hahaha. I’m with you. Especially with swimming. Of course that’s also because I never feel that I’m fit enough to bother with speed work…
Or train simply more effectively with the time you have…
Most of us "regular folks can’t find more time, but we can make better use of the time we have.
Absolutely agreed.
Terry
I heard he actually trains really hard. I bet these ironman guys spend a lot of time on the bike since proportionally it takes up about half the race.
Has anyone thought of this?
sorry for the late reply on this one.
I am sure there are ironman athletes outthere that spend more time on the bike than THorbjorn. He has been trained by danish national coach Michael Krüger who has a very specific system developed. It’s very time effencient and most training is done at spefific intensitet or above for the ironman.
Michael is the guy behind Rasmus Henning, Jimmy Johnsen, Jens Koefoed (2006 itu long euro champ) and many more. He works with very limited talentpool compared to other places and if you see the results then you only be impressed.
I should do a post about this “danish training” since also Lisbeth kristensen, Peter Sandvang, Susanne Nielsen (some old school names) have had great sucess with this.
Basicilly there are two very important coaches in Denmark - Michael and Gabor Klötzl ( I remember Slowman clamining at one point that Gabor was one of the worlds best coaches some years ago just around the time Gabor retired from coaching champions).
Anyway that will be another post
So is Thorbjorn doing alot of hours on a wind trainer while in Denmark? Do the top guys in Denmark do much riding at a enclosed(indoor) velodrome?
just wondering?
G.
More is better for some, and more is worse for others indeed. Torbjorn is going to write a few things for us, so we should see more Torbjorn activity here.
I bet these ironman guys spend a lot of time on the bike since proportionally it takes up about half the race.
Has anyone thought of this?
I think you are the first.