Is Gjert Ingebritsen the GOAT coach?

he coaches humans, moran!

I would say that Joe Vigil has to mentioned as one of the best coaches ever.

Far from Goat yet wrote:

There is quite a few norwegians, swedes and fins applying Gjert principles in their running now and improving greatly because of it.

What are these principles?

The Ingebrigtsens also do 25x200 hills once a week during base and this eventually shifts to flat 300s during racing season. This might be what you were missing. They also do strides a lot which should help keep a bit of speed.

a lot of threads and articles about this. Ina nutshell:

high mileage (up to 200km per week)

double thresholds twice per week

25x200 hills once per week in base

doubles 5-6 days per week in base

short long run ~20-25km

gym work

hills eventually transition to 300s on track

intervals are incorporated as racing season approaches

Just Another Hobby Jogger wrote:

I would be more impressed if he coaches someone other than his sons to world class. Peter Coe coached Wendy Sly to an Olympic silver medal. So he proved he could coach someone other than Seb.

Peter Coe's methods have also been blamed for setting back Americadistance running about 30 years in the 1990s....

Les wrote:

If you're talking fathers who have only coached their sons then Peter Coe is superior. Not impressed with a coach with an extremely limited body of work. Show me a coach who consistently gets good results from a number of athletes.

JS is a great example of a coach that never fails to improve his runners, all of them!

You told it yourself. They are applying Gjert's principles, but they are not coached by him.

Both Svela and Gilje Nordås is part of the Ingebrigtsen training group, Svela as of late winter and Gilje Nordås is back as a team member as well.

Duplantis is not far behind.

The real GOAT wrote:

Les wrote:

If you're talking fathers who have only coached their sons then Peter Coe is superior. Not impressed with a coach with an extremely limited body of work. Show me a coach who consistently gets good results from a number of athletes.

JS is a great example of a coach that never fails to improve his runners, all of them!

Hey Stensson, gtfoh with your lies.

Best 3000m runners of all time. Not updated for this year. One guy ran a 7.45 yesterday.

https://www.minfriidrettsstatistikk.info/php/UtoverStatistikk.php?showathl=1099&showevent=0&showseason=0&outdoor=Y&listtype=All

Best 5000m runners of all time. Not updated for recent results.

https://www.minfriidrettsstatistikk.info/php/LandsStatistikk.php?showclass=11&showevent=14&outdoor=Y&showseason=0&showclub=0

1500m not updated yet:

https://www.minfriidrettsstatistikk.info/php/LandsStatistikk.php?showclass=11&showevent=11&outdoor=Y&showseason=0&showclub=0

John Wesley Harding wrote:

Wake me up when he coaches someone he didn’t conceive and you’ve learned to spell his name correctly.

He coaches Narve Gilje that ran in the 5000 heats, but didnt make final.

This is a great point that most americans miss. There is something in the american system that relies in a big input of talent to produce those few champions, rather than finding the champion in what you have, which Gjert has done.

Has gjert spoken on how they shored up the weakness of Jakob’s speed?

Clearly they have put extensive focus on this in the last year, and it paid off superbly.

u.uu wrote:

Has gjert spoken on how they shored up the weakness of Jakob’s speed?

Clearly they have put extensive focus on this in the last year, and it paid off superbly.

Not really.

Jakob ran a tiny PR (0.36s) in a race with a dedicated pacemaker.

u.uu wrote:

Has gjert spoken on how they shored up the weakness of Jakob’s speed?

Clearly they have put extensive focus on this in the last year, and it paid off superbly.

Actually just training the same way. It is just the relative speed that is better. When you race fast the others has not very much left.

3758kk wrote:

u.uu wrote:

Has gjert spoken on how they shored up the weakness of Jakob’s speed?

Clearly they have put extensive focus on this in the last year, and it paid off superbly.

Not really.

Jakob ran a tiny PR (0.36s) in a race with a dedicated pacemaker.

No, he is constantly closing last 100m 1 sec faster this year. Look at Monaco or world champs. I am curious to know what Gjert has done to improve this.