Find out how a sparsely-populated country came to dominate the world of endurance sports and
get a blueprint for high performance. Norway has long stacked the field with champions in
sports like Nordic skiing and sailing but a new generation of athletes has arrived on the
endurance scene smashing records and grabbing medals in running cycling and triathlon.
Sports journalist Brad Culp unpacks the rise of the Norwegian method and its meticulous
scientific protocols which upend long-held beliefs about training and performance. With its
rugged terrain and harsh weather Norway has a way of hardening competitors for any test. Culp
explores the how the Scandinavian culture imbues a unique biopsychosocial approach to
performance. He also introduces the athletes coaches and scientists who are shaking up the
world of endurance sports. Their secret? Plenty of volume at low intensity punctuated with
hard-fought double-threshold workouts which seems to turn workhorses into winners—they know
when to hold back and when to go all-out. The Norwegian Method is a real-life story of how
discipline and determination can be employed to overcome seemingly impossible odds and achieve
breakthrough performances. Culp drives this point home by introducing U.S. pros who have
reconfigured their training to look more like that of Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Kristian
Blummenfelt and how endurance athletes can adopt the same methods in their own pursuit of high
performance.
