GJERT INGEBRIGTSEN ON THE NORWEGIAN TRAINING FORMULA

David McCarthy chats with legendary Norwegian coach Gjert Ingebrigtsen after Narve Gilje Nordas runs 3:32.39 for the 1500m win at the On Track Nights: Paris meet. Gjert talks about his training model that has taken the track and field world by storm.
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[@valeriacardenas9238]

David McCarthy is killing it! He knows how you get people to talk-- he listens to them so well. Amazing job CITIUS! Keep it up.

[@davidmccarthy7609]

Thank you ❤

[@sundaylawrun61]

Been thinking the same thing, his interviewing skills are amongst the best in the field 👏👏👏

[@HitNRunElRadawi]

Norwegian here. Can confirm that Gjert is known as a talker. No impressive journalism.

[@tulste]

Narve went sub 3.30 now, crying his eyes out! Great guy, greatest trainer :D

[@thedarkpassenger331]

David, that was one of the most knowledgeable interviews i have seen in a long time. You did your homework and it was clear Gjert did appreciate the well thought, high quality questions he was getting. Well done mate, more of the same!

[@davidmccarthy7609]

Cheers man, really appreciate the words ❤

[@OccasionalRunner]

World class. He is one of the best out there. No doubt. Gjert Ingebrigtsen is great too.

[@drli8765]

He is a genius, I have great respect for him, Keep up the good work,

[@dlow2492]

Props to the interviewer

[@evanbyrne3192]

Unbelievable interview!!! What an insight into the ingebrigsten model.

[@kevinmshea58]

Wow, David is getting a pay raise soon!!! Amazing job.

[@michaeldixon8342]

Amazing interview with a legend!

[@samuelroberts8449]

These are the good questions!!!!! Thank you so much for getting out there and asking them! This is amazing!

[@user-cg7kr7xx1q]

Gjert looks fit👍 Congrats with your sons👏

[@jordanross634]

I had to watch this twice. So fun hear hear this interview.

[@marcpschebizin7229]

When Jacob once was asked why he is so strong, he told thats just because he started so early. From min 5:30 Gjert explains the real secret of their great sucess, start early with endurance based training no matter what kind of sport you do to build the walls of your house. The young Ingebrigstens were rollerskiing in a parking garage, which everyone in his neighborhood thought he must be totally crazy. But now it all pays off, no matter if they train threshold or endurace based model. So start early and avoid injuries and thats easier said than done.

[@greganikin7003]

They built mitochondria and taught mitochondria to use lactate and convert it into a fuel. He’s good at biology and he’s got a good knowledge in his pocket. And consistency is the key! Years of practice without injuries

[@brokenrulerlabs]

Great interview!

[@nordicgaming2572]

Need this guy to lead our national football team.. That way we might actually qualify for something in the near future

[@saedgriffey4738]

The legend himself! 🔥

[@jamie.lennon1]

Happy to see that he's healthy. I thought he stepped down as coach for health reasons. Perhaps it's just coaching his sons that brings extra stress. Jakob seems to be doing fine coaching himself anyway!

[@owkelly]

indeed, he looks well and healthy!

[@Gran_Torino]

Yeah, his sons spoke a little about the seperation in Norwegian media. Gjert is extremely pedantic and intense, and it gradually took a big strain on the family relations. In the end it became untolerable for the brothers, so it seemingly wasn't a good breakup. They're working on their relationship in the family now, and decided that in order to stay close as a family they had to seperate family and work between the brothers and Gjert. But what a coach he is!

[@tvgcmma9215]

@@Gran_Torino tgibk that’s what special and Peter and seb coe in that they both were able to totally separate coach and family relationship - he was Peter on track but dad at home

[@Mauirunner]

Great question. Thank for the valuable content. Aloha from Volcano, Hawaii.

[@pratyakshkumar8940]

Excellent questions

[@marksmyth5505]

What a great interview, brilliant questions which were answered superbly by the master.

[@damienryan969]

Great Interview David 👍

[@kennywilliams4346]

"Greatest Coach Ever!!!"

[@user-ro2ee7cn3f]

The Best Coach...

[@brokenrulerlabs]

Loved this interview Chavez 🎉😊

[@yesno9374]

It's absolutely unbelievable if true that they get by with such little track work

[@jo61nor]

Maybe they have learned from all the injuries that Henrik Ingebrigtsen has had by running with spikes on the track is not a good thing. Just a thought

[@lorenzoquirante8685]

Insane he uses track races as track sessions

[@bluseyuan5499]

Just such a gentleman

[@Parislaugh]

Gjert, you are a genius, first the 3 European champions a olympic goldwinner. Jakob Will set world records. And Narve Gilje Nordås. It is amazing. Jeg har fulgt friidrett ordentlig etter Jakobs prestasjoner og det har du en enormt 🫡 Mye æren for.

[@aviationsummaries7919]

Excellent.

[@matthewredden1525]

Fantastic

[@gregizzo4191]

This man has the recipe for success.

[@jo61nor]

As a Norwegian, this is the best interview I have seen, maybe ever, with Gjert Ingebrigtsen. Needless to say that Jacob's treatment of Gjert has been unfair and petti and has resulted in problem for Gjert to get accreditation as a trainer to events. That is solely Jacob's petty work behind the scene. The Norwegian track and field federation is not including Gjert when it comes to accreditation to events. I wonder if that will change now when Narve Gilje Nordås, Gjert's athlete did 2.29.47 At golden league in Oslo.

[@bobabola3399]

What happened with Jakob and Gjert?

[@jo61nor]

@@bobabola3399 I don't know. It came as a shock to many with interest in the family that something had happened, and it was so serious that Gjert was denied accreditation to Eugene 2022 and barely accreditation to Euro 2022 with order to not contact Jacob.

[@ianbusche1471]

@@bobabola3399basically what I heard is that Gjert was very intense and it strained family relations and the brothers couldn’t handle it anymore. They weren’t able to separate work and family so they broke away. I’ve heard that they are working on the family issues, but not quite fixed.

[@SteinJohnsen-iu6bf]

He was too restrictive and harsh in his behavior towards some of them,including the young daughter.

[@jo61nor]

@@SteinJohnsen-iu6bf So far I have not heard about anybody in Norway being jailed for authoritarian parenting. This is a setup by the Ingebrigtsen Brothers. I had a teacher at a Northern Norway Island school, in 6th grade, who took me in the back neck hair and lead me out the classroom. When I told my mother what had happened, she said; "do not tell your dad because he might do the same just to make sure you get enough punishment for whatever you did."

[@Andycarusetta]

Great stuff. Lydiard with the benefit of lactate testing

[@markmanor7936]

I've ran for 30 plus yrs, and dreamed of becoming something of a decent runner, but watching Jakob run, he's a God blessed soul 🙏 🎉😊

[@HitNRunElRadawi]

Ok?

[@greganikin7003]

Gjert is man of a science! No Bs

[@benanastasoff8980]

Interesting takes from Gjert. It’d really be something to get some insight from him on the full Ingebrigtsen training model.

[@sundog1973]

Gjert has written two books, but unfortunately specifics of the training are still pretty poor.

[@JanTheo]

Thirsday and Tuesday: 5X6 and 10X3 in the morning. 20X400 and 10X1000 in the evening. Hills/track work on saturday. Sunday Long run: 20K. Easy runs the other days. The Ingebrigtsen Model.

[@greganikin7003]

I can tell you it works really well! 4-6 weeks after you adopted to Treshold doubles you change the time of those workouts or keep the time but increase speed a little bit. Great model

[@sundog1973]

@@JanTheo yes, the general details have been available for some years now. The specifics of how Gjert modified the training for each of the boys, how the training changes with the season, especially when transitioning to racing, etc. are not available, and Gjert has not discussed these details in his books.

[@aaronkeane2336]

@@JanTheo What does 5X6 and 10X3 mean in this answer?

[@chrismia2402]

Where do we find how to coach in this way? My 11 yo daughter wants to run at the Olympics 1 day and I’ve been too fearful to coach her and push her too hard at a young age. Would love to know how to build her towards Olympic level so if she decides to keep going that at least we’ve done the right preparation to enable her to achieve Olympic qualification or more. Anyone have a link to the training resources or know how I can contact Mr Ingebrigtsen?

[@brunobiega]

For now finding a coach at a local track club should work just fine to introduce her into training. If her results are gonna look promising in 3-4 years, you could probably think of finding a coach that uses methods similar to those used by ingebrigtsens, or just stick with that coach if the progress will be there.

[@jackcarpenters3759]

Watch out for the complexity bias. Training is simple, training distribution of all elites is 80/20. They all run high mileage. Twice a day, 11-13 sessions a week. Talent will come out, or it won't. Some people simply can't handle much volume. Only 30% of the people is talented enough to run 100km per week. The rest breaks down, and can't make the volume needed to become olympic material. Volume is strongest correlated to finishing time. No coach can change that.

[@billbally4419]

In Norway. Good luck

[@greece_crypto]

to be honest, the one who first worked on this model was Mihaly Igloi, is one of the most underrated coaches in history..

[@parkerpeter8796]

Arthur Lyliard is the first of all them..... 😊

[@chrispajak540]

I have a strong suspicion that the 5K record will go down soon!

[@Alex-pr6zv]

Different stamina-based models have existed for a while, but Gert Ingebrigsten appears to have refined a modern version using available tools. In the 1960s, Peter Snell demonstrated its effectiveness for 800 meter runners with Arthur Lydiard. This one is gold: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h3TJf3p6fs9-g7c

[@iwanarana98]

"running to the top" , a classic book which also deals in this concept of base development thanks for mention Arthur lydiard many of his concepts resonate here, I think the refinement you mention might be the thresthold training during all the year apart from easy/long runs, maybe in the classical view there is a more drastic change from volume to intensity in preseason/season while in this approach everything is more integrated during time although there are changes, thats why he says he can do a decent race in almost every month of the year, even though I think that for majority of amateur/serious runner is important before more volume in threshold and then track for any specific race ( 1500/marathon) is important to reduce a little bit in threshold and put more in bassement development as doing the easy/long runs in mountain, foret or other uneven circuits and more season in gym/ full body circuit

[@dna1238]

Many Thanks for the link 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤

[@bobabola3399]

Is that Jakob's dad?

[@canuckowl]

Yes, and his other two sons have rune 3:32s as well.

[@psmeby61]

Philip Ingebrigtsen 3:30,01 Henrik Ingebrigtsen 3:31,46

[@nogringovikingo]

And now Narve his student have 3.29

[@isakkarvonen9387]

No its his drag dealer.

[@10ktube]

So for us mortals, that don't have a portable lab pricking our finger or ear during a workout, how can we get close to this method? Lactate levels can vary even day to day, hence why the blood check is the way to go, but what can we do as normal Joe athletes to do this right?

[@iwanarana98]

knowing your 5k, 10k , half marathon and marathon pb as indicators. if you do not have a marathon or half marathon pb (which is my case and many other people you can estimate more or less). For example I do the 10k at 3:25/3:30 km. these guys do something like 25x400 / 10x10000 30x200 ( just some examples). for a guy that ranges 30-32 in 10k might do 20x400 8-10x1000 25x200. me as I do 50-60 km week ( some years doing athletics and gym/cross-training) and as a 33-35 in 10 k typical trainings might be 15x400 6-8x1000 / 20x200. Then answering your questions the 400s might be done at 10k pace (in my case 1:20-1:24 of course this change during weeks of training and approaching specific goals) , 1000 if I'm starting a block more volume base (8-9 3:35-3:40 which and I'm more confortable) and then slightly reducing it step by step (until a 6-7 at 3:20-25), then for half marathon/marathon pace are use more in tempo runs (I will put anything more than 6-7 minutes) which in my case I estimate for example a 5x2 km will be done between 3:50/4:05, a 4x3 km (4/4:10 which is between half and marathon) and then bouts of 4-6 km marathon pace (4:05/4:20), the last part will be a long tempo 10/15/20 km (depend on the stage of preparation) (4:20/30). as you see you play with the times that you feel are not very stressful but not easy at the same time. with practice you will get to know the different paces and more or less choose wisely what pace is neccesary for the different training and to adapt progressively as you approach a race or after some weeks ( is important as you progress to reduce the paces not to drastically and let the body evolve though time) , in this way I truly believe that knowing oneself after racing/training a lot in this style can substitue this lactate measures as you say for everyday amateur/serious runners as we are. I know this is long but just my insights regards 😅😉

[@pal_lokomotivet2679]

it costs 300 dollars and is smaller than a mobile. What are you talking about

[@schauerman12]

Did anyone else notice Gjert pronounce Jakob “jaycob” as opposed to “yakob”????

[@henriz.l]

It’s more likely to pronounce names in English when we speak English 😊 I do the same.

[@seatownfan]

Who are we talking about at the beginning?? 🤔

[@davidmccarthy7609]

Narve Nordas from Norway. He won the 1500m tonight at the Fast5000 in 3:32. Gjert coaches him.

[@seatownfan]

@@davidmccarthy7609 OK, thanks for the info. 👍

[@oilguy777]

@@davidmccarthy7609 he’s still coaching others but not Jakob? 🤨

[@davidmccarthy7609]

Don’t think so

[@JA-su2us]

@@oilguy777 Yes, he coaches Narve Gilje Nordås and Per Svela, but not his sons!

[@trancemaster5009]

i wonder how he could tell by people warming up, they were using the Ingebrigtsen system.

[@willmcalinden]

many pros have started doing a couple of minutes @threshold before races as part of the warm up

[@parkerpeter8796]

Jakob a atteint un niveau EXCEPTIONNEL et la saison commence tout juste.... Il ne peut plus s'entraîner objectivement avec ses frères, C'EST FINI, ils sont dépassé à présent, blessures recurrentes !!!!!! L'esprit de famille doit être préservé c'est CLAIR... Jakob sait où il va et ce qu'il veut et RIEN NI PERSONNE ne l'arrêtera.... Les records du monde du 3000m et 5000m ne résisteront pas à Jakob...... 🙆‍♂️🙋‍♂️🙏🤗

[@paulsolon6229]

Intelligence Experience Patience Skill

[@APBCTechnique]

Just without doing those 12-14 x 400m reps in sub 55 with 30 seconds recovery - it will be hard for Jakob to beat 3:26. He’s a 5000m up guy - who runs the 1500 from an endurance tank

[@jacobreesmontgomery]

hol up, he is coaching Jakob again? or is he purely talking about prior experiences

[@JA-su2us]

Only prior!

[@jacobreesmontgomery]

@@JA-su2us Okay, that's what I thought lol

[@JA-su2us]

@@jacobreesmontgomeryBut he coach Narve Gilje Nordås who ran in 3.29 yesterday, a personal record by almost 3 seconds, and into the top 30 in the world of all time!!

[@ianbusche1471]

He doesn’t coach Jakob, but coaches a Norwegian who just ran a 3:29 1500m

[@GbawlZ]

Jakob convinced his dad to wear hoop earrings, haha.

[@listenup2882]

How many Norweigans have won at the highest level?

[@Matsoni85]

Grete Waitz, Vebjørn Rodal, Ingrid Kristiansen and Jakob Ingebrigtsen

[@eirik.9384]

Way more than I could mention if we’re talking about all sports.

[@yeahhhhh9209]

very interesting interview, but in order for Jacob to run that fast he has to do lots o vo2max and neuromuscular speed sessions.. not just aerobic -threshold training and racing... of course couches they never reveal their secrets ahahh .. this is my opinion

[@motorhead4870]

I watched all the ingebrigtsen series and I noticed it showed almost nothing about their diet and nothing much on the internet either

[@BrayoFitnessTrainer]

Supplements and diet are a secret 🤫

[@Run_Fast]

Why does not he train his sons now?

[@citizenguy]

Why does he have an earring on his ear?

[@phylosophdotcom]

because he is a pirate!

[@GbawlZ]

late life crisis.

[@Dougie-]

Why not?

[@HansenFT]

Cause he's a rascal and a cool dude. Plus, his wife is a hairdresser with a small empire of salons, and they are generally the ones doing that's sort of thing in Norway.

[@doobiebin]

He pronounced Jakob with a hard J. Are we all fools for pronouncing it “Yakob” this whole time? Hahaha

[@lprgeddes2017]

He pronounces it with a the softer "Y" sound when he speaks Norwegian. My only explanation was that he was speaking English and so he used the anglisised form of Jakob - Jacob.

[@geirstianaaslund7141]

Very good observation. As a Norwegian I also noticed that, but the thing with Gjert is that he probably pronounce Jakob in 4 different ways, this English Jacob, the east Norwegian accent, Yakop, the South western Yagåb, or the northern norwegian Yakopp(?). Gjert has an accent like no other person in Norway, a mixture of furthest Northern and the furthest South Western parts of Norway. In the tv series his sons often tease him with his special accent.

[@MotRi1986]

Something you probably didn't realise is that he pronounced Bergen in a English way, not how he would have don't it had he been speaking Norwegian. This is also what he did with Jacob.

[@ulfthomassen8222]

Time to contact the father...