An inside look at Karsten Warholm's mind-blowing training

Yep,he's full throttle doping on steroids,and EPO.Theres no other way anyone can train like he allegedly does.

And none of you are world record holders.

When Pogacar smashed Roglic at the Tour 2020 Planche Des Beille Filles time trial why people didn't ask the same question?

Or when he smashed everybody in Le Grand Bornand at 2021 Tour.

Now that Vingegaard, who runs for Jumbo, is dominating then everybody is feeding suspects. Every rider is clean until it has been proven he is not. Vingegaard as well as all the Jumbo riders is clean. Pogacar as well as all UAE riders is clean. There's no need to be suspicious. Stop.

Today antidoping tests are really really efficient and advanced and it is impossible for anyone to cheat.

He wanted to break Thomas Schonlebe’s ancient European 400m record not so long ago.

But Matthew Hudson-Smith will now probably break it.

I don't see either of them breaking it. I think we are gonna need to wait another few years for a European sub 44.

This may be a bunch of bs for all I know, but who cares what the sprinters at your school did? This is a world record holder, not a bunch of kids pretending to be pro athletes.

Warholms NR was bested this year by a young guy, he might be it.

I don't buy that. I just think they aren't trying. They even said on the most recent podcast that they've never even asked Jakob for an interview. Seems like intern Alex just had to ask and he got an interview with one of the most exciting athletes on the circuit.

Track and field is not a big sport. The athletes get very little coverage so they tend to do any podcasts they're asked to do. I remember Josh Kerr saying on a podcast earlier this year that he hasn't been asked to do many interviews since Tokyo. LRC aren't interested in an Olympic 1500m medallist?

The Coffee Club managed to get Devon Allen and that podcast is a mess of half-informed takes and idiotic bro-speak. I'm sure LRC could get decent guests if they tried

Bad Wigins puts more effort into this website than brojos do.

Rai Benjamin just ran mid-high 46 after nine weeks of no running due to injury. So, no, it does not appear that he needs nine hour days to get to where he is, even when healthy.

When Norway's Havald Ingvaldsen shut it down early in the semifinals of the Euro U23, he looked like he might break Schoenlebe's 44.3 European U23 record.

I don’t think it’s lactate threshold work. Sprinters do “ extensive tempo” which is an aerobic workout as the work to rest ratio and the intensity at which it is run ensures that lactate does not build up. Ie : the sprinter definition and distance runner definition of “Tempo” is different.

The transition from 400H to 400m is hardly as straightforward as some here think. Mclaughlin-Levrone did for the women's 400H what Warholm did for the men's, yet she didn't hammer the 400m at a top world level her first time out this year. Since then, she's dropped over a second from keeping at it and focusing on it in training, apparently--as she's going to run the 400m flat at world's according to her coach. Warholm gave the 400 one try after breaking 46 in the 400mH, and it was after his peak. Give him a season to work on it and I bet he goes sub-44 by a good margin.

Some good points there. It makes me wonder how KW’s training would change if he focused exclusively on the 400m. Would he still utilize extensive hurdle drills and technique sessions? If not, what would he replace that with? Even if he just cut down on the time spent doing hurdle work, he would still have a lot of “time” to fill training by taking the technical aspects out.

I guess my question is, are these 9 hour days designed around the demand of the 400m hurdles? Or would he also find a way to train that much for another event?

I have a hard time imagining a non-hurdler having as much “to-do” as a hurdler as their events aren’t as technical. I could be wrong though.

You have to remember that an 8-hour workout for a sprinter or Decathlete/Heptathlete looks very different than a distance runner's workout. You should watch some of the training day videos that Kevin Mayer and Ashton Eaton have put out over the years.

For example - I am a masters decathlete, and on the days that I have a 3 hour pole vault workout, I probably run less than a half mile total. There is a lot of active downtime, sure it is moving around, not just sitting down, but the real serious work portion is maybe 5% of the total time.

I have another workout day comprised of only Uphill Sprints at about 92% effort, of 90m, 70m, and 50m. The rests are still about 2:00 between reps, and 3:00 or more between sets. (This is not my 98% effort Uphill Sprint workout, which are shorter reps of 40m and less total volume.) It takes 2 hours to complete this workout, total distance is less than 1100m.

My distance friends who run solid half marathons or 10ks are impressed that I did a 2-hour workout, but then disgusted when they learn my total distance was "only" between 300m and 1100m. But I guarandamntee that I put in way more effort than they did on their 2-hour run.

With sprinter workouts vs. distance workouts, it's not apples vs oranges; it's apples vs beef jerky. Not even close to the same thing.

Rojo unironically thinks he is defending "Free Speech" by letting his creation become the cesspool you described.

I mean there are a number of high-profile athletes we have asked to be on the podcast, you just don't hear about them because some of them say no :-)

True, we haven't asked Jakob to come on the pod specifically, but I've put in multiple interview requests with his agent for other stories and never heard back. So I'm not exactly optimistic we'd be able to get him on the pod, but it's worth a try.

I think we have had some pretty great guests this year anyway...Will Sumner, Cory McGee, Yared Nuguse, Narve Nordas, Woody Kincaid, Emily Sisson. We even had Devon Allen last year.

Lol you're just like a SoundCloud rapper constantly saying "expect big things" and then never delivering.

Lol, that just about sums it up.