Jakob Ingebritsen training?

I don't know about his training but I'm gonna bet he is not growing up on an American junk food diet!

As a Scandinavian and coaching some norwegians I know the basic in the brother Ingebrigtsen training.They are all trained by their father Gert-Inge. Basically it`s about a lot of threshold training (intervals and so on at 2-4 mmol). And Jakob is said to be doing f.ex faster 200m intervals as complement......it`s nothing very different from many known systems and can be said to be a system where the training has a buildingphase with more mileage and after a sharpening phase.....these 3 brothers are extremly talented and it`s really strange that they all have that talent. I just came to think about an example from the animal world and breeding trotters....It`s not usual that a good stallion only gives very good trotters. Just a relative thing I came to think about.

J.S wrote:

It`s not usual that a good stallion only gives very good trotters.

Are you suggesting that their mom wasn't all that faithful?

Of course not,hehe! I mean even when there is the same horse mom it`s not usual that all horses will be good.

There are two other adult brothers who do not run (apparently they trained as kids, but didn't want to commit to it, or something), as well as two younger siblings.

The thing they all mention as special in Jakob's case is that he started training specifically for running very early, while his older brothers did other sports as well. Specialized training like he's done as early as 10yo is very uncommon in Norway. Judging by the documentary from last year, the entire family is very focused on working hard and setting goals for yourself from an early age.

I'm fairly sure I read that all of the kids had a quite extensive background in cross-country skiing prior to taking up running "properly".

Huge amount of whole body activity for extended time periods - not surprising that they ended up strong as an ox. I think cross-country skiiers routinely score some of the highest VO2 max figures.

Ben True had a similar background.

super size me wrote:

I don't know about his training but I'm gonna bet he is not growing up on an American junk food diet!

Apparently he does like burgers, fries, and pizza. But of course he's not eating them every day like so many kids in the US.

I wonder if he eats that Carlsson'so fish oil for the Omega-3s?

thanks js

And the kid gets the best medical attention and testing. he is way more advanced than any US high school runner.

will he end up better than his oldest brother 3.31. 1500m?

Sorry for quiting the whole text and for my bad english.I think the brothers are doing up to 5 quality workouts divided into 3 days. Something like shorrt intervals+ long intervals and hill+ long intervals. Then they are doing one long and easy interval as a long run. I dont believe Jakob is doing all this, but his older brothers are when in build period.

interested in knowing wrote:

I did a search and could only find that a couple of years ago he was training like a 5000m runner.

Does anyone know the basics of Jakob's training program?

Does anybody have any insights into Jakob Ingebrigtsen's training? Jakob and his brother are having a great year.

The brothers are doing two quality workouts on workout days two times a week and sometimes one more. One is hills and one I believe is short track[quote]Hshndjbdhncf wrote:

Lots of threshold type training on the treadmill during base training.

well,. wrote:

Lots of threshold type training on the treadmill during base training.

Are they based on the principles of Marius Bakken?

Without going into too much detail (which I know), I can tell you that their program is built around threshold training. All the brothers do 3-5 workouts a week, but often with two consecutive workouts on the same day. This is mostly threshold (very intermittently based) and a hill workout of around 1Xx200m (where they achieve severe acidosis).

But summed up: threshold intervals, A LOT of it

djcdjfjd wrote:

Without going into too much detail (which I know), I can tell you that their program is built around threshold training. All the brothers do 3-5 workouts a week, but often with two consecutive workouts on the same day. This is mostly threshold (very intermittently based) and a hill workout of around 1Xx200m (where they achieve severe acidosis).

But summed up: threshold intervals, A LOT of it

Well stated.

25x400@ 10km pace with 30 sec rest and 3-6 minute efforts are among their essentials.