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Hard training - shortcut to success?
A colleague just showed me a newspaper article about Atle Kvålsvoll (of the Norwegian Olympic centre) critiscising Jan Hoff and Jan Helgeruds training concept.Basically he accuses them of ruining young talent and says that there is no shortcut to success and in order to do high intensity training you have…
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to put in years / thousands of hours of ground work. They are having a debate tonight. I would like to attend but it is being held within the embargoed area for WOC 2010 so I wont. Just in case.It doesnt concern me since I am not particularly young or talented but in general I disagree with Kvålsvolls comments and think that he probably hasnt looked in detail at the training Hoff and Helgerud recommend. I also think that a lot of athletes just prefer to train 1000 hours a year rather than 500 and love to see a large…
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