Why Doesn’t the Bakken/Ingebrigtsen System Work for Women?

Whataboutism much, Steffi?! Norway has a centralized system of pharma support for their athletes, it even made the news a few years ago. Or do you think the USOPC brings drugs to the Olympics???

There's a secret sauce

Reindeer milk.

Please provide a link. I'm not saying there isn't one, but you seem to know where to get confirmation

They've got hedda hynne in the 800 meters plus grovdahl,and some good 400 hurdlers.Then there was susanne wigene,back in 2006,who won silver in the 10'000 meters in the european championships.She came from nowhere,then pretty much vanished.

A lot of scandinavian female runners have performed quite well by following Bakken’s threshold training and measuring lactate. In Norway - Karoline Bjerkeli Grovdal has been quite successful.

A pillar of the success seen with double threshold is simply the very large number of miles, and high quality aerobic miles you put in. With a few exceptions, though this number is growing (thank goodness), many women just don’t run the total # of miles needed. You get some who do: Seidel, Shalane, and they rise to the top.

From a young age in the US, girls are given much less in terms of training load, and often ridiculously low mileage. They are fed the idea of “you can’t run as much as the boys” from a young age. But to paraphrase Renato Canova, everybody in the marathon’s gotta run 26.2 miles.

Obviously women’s bodies have more factors at play to what they can physically handle, but I’ve always thought that if more women just got rid of the mental block around more mileage, we’d start seeing a lot faster times and depth from them. I think it’s finally happening now.

Probably cause women are less likely to dope

Diane Van Es does double thresholds and is doing good with 30'29" 10k, she ran 32 high just some month before

Maybe higher prevalence of eating disorders among women sabotages their progress, regardless of training method?

Ingrid Ingebrigtsen

She also looks drugged out of her mind,on various cocktails.No woman can swipe 2 minutes off her 10k time naturally at that leval.

I don't believe this is the case as my experience in high level athletics is that men have just as many eating disorders.

For men, it’s called getting skinny to increase your watts/kg

For women , it’s called fat shaming and having an eating disorder

Completely different

He can't , because there isn't any.