Training and privacy lessons from Therese Johaug

It’s no secret that Therese Johaug trains a lot.

However, the amount of energy and energy it uses in addition to the cross-country commitment is not as well known.

Most elite athletes in endurance sports take it very easy, with a focus on rest, recovery and sleep between sessions, but for Therese Johaug the situation is different.

A normal day for the queen of the cross country can be the following when there is no competitive season:

* He gets up and trains the first session at 06 in the morning.
* Then he works six hours with his own brand.
* Next, wait for session No. 2 with a duration of two new hours.
* In the evening, then wait up with time-consuming dinners for visiting friends.

Johaug has so much iron in the fire and such an active program coupled with training that his closest followers have to rub their eyes.

Both her friend Martine Ek Hagen and her brother Karstein Johaug tell Dagbladet.

– Did you meet her?

Ek Hagen admits he was happy for that reason when Johaug did an explosive workout this summer and showed human sides and swelled up so much in his legs that he couldn’t see his own knees.

– When he told me that story, I felt happy. She is actually a human being. Nice to know that Therese has to take it easy for a few days too. He has a completely inhuman ability, both when it comes to training and social things, Martine Ek Hagen tells Dagbladet.

– I often have to text him to tell him I can’t stand that dinner or social activity today, but then I see what he’s done during the day: he met the press, sponsorship assignments, coached two sessions, painted the room and washed the bathroom. . It is absolutely huge.

– You suspect that Therese is not human?

– Absolutely. Did you meet her Have you seen her skiing? he says and laughs.

– crazy

When Dagbladet recounts Ek Hagen’s proposal to Therese Johaug, she smiles and responds:

– She’s not the only one saying that. I am also a human being and I make my mistakes. I take it as a good lesson. I live on the razor’s edge with the training I do and I have to take care of myself, Therese Johaug tells Dagbladet.

Brother and coach Karstein Johaug understands Ek Hagen well.

– I partially support that statement. It’s insane what Therese can take during training, and nothing seems to bite. It is absolutely insane. There is nothing I would have recommended to a 16 year old: “Train this and you will become a world champion.” So it would have been overtraining, he tells Dagbladet.

– I have wondered if the same as Martine, especially Johaug’s assignments, take a long time. I don’t think people realize how much time they spend on it. Therese is very involved with the brand. He often goes out to 06 and trains for two hours, before going to a photoshoot for six hours and then goes back to training for a new two-hour session.

– And then he could have girlfriends for dinner at his own house. And then it doesn’t serve Grandiosa, but a proper dinner. Then he goes to bed at 10 and does the same thing again the next day. Therese impresses in more areas besides skiing, says Brother Karstein.

– She works a lot with the brand, especially in summer and autumn she is very involved in making clothes.

Two jobs

– Isn’t Therese a 100% cross-country skier, because she has a job next door?

– Yeah, he definitely has a job next door. I think people who follow her for a week will be amazed at how much she does besides training. I don’t quite understand how he manages to do everything he does. I think it energizes him.

Ek Hagen is very impressed with Johaug’s ability both on and off the ski slope.

– Teresa is tremendously sociable who will be present at all dinners and everything that happens, as well as hard and a lot of training, sponsorship, press, brand. She seems to get energy from all of that, says the former cross-country skier, who received her first World Cup winner this summer, at Dagbladet.

– Therese has a pace and off-road ability that’s completely unique. I have not experienced anything like anyone else I know. I don’t know anyone else who gets pushed around as much as her.

– I think the reason it handles it so well is the year it was banned. Then he popped his head out of the bubble and racked up a lot of profit and energy.

Partially published

That Therese Johaug crossed a border in late summer should almost only be missing in light of the hard drive she was exposed to, believes Ek Hagen.

– Therese trained hard before the trip to Lofoten and had plans to take it easy there. Rest for her was six to seven hours of walking. For an ordinary man, it is quite heavy. Therese moved on and wasn’t quite ready when she started regular training and competition at Lysebotn again, says Karstein Johaug.

He has partially given up himself, after many years as a hardworking cross country skier. However, Karstein Johaug impressed Beitostølen with 17th place there, ahead of solid riders like Andrew Musgrave, Harald Østberg Amundsen, Håvard Solås Taugbøl and Martin Løvstrøm Nyenget in the 15km classic.

– I have partially published. I went to Beitostølen and was very happy. I started at a newly started Wang school where I work full time. I love training and competing alongside him, he says.

– Very sad

– What does it mean to have partially published?

– You train the tough sessions that give development, but you don’t do all day to day to reach the top of the world. It becomes a bit of a super exerciser, you don’t put everything in it, you run the tough sessions that bring development.