🇳🇴 Arild Tveiten the Norwegian System: Development, Patience, Durability & Volume 🏊🏼‍♂️🚴‍♂️🏃‍♂️🔥

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Arild Tveiten: the architect behind Norway’s rise in triathlon, he breaks down the REAL Norwegian Method: LT1, LT2, low-intensity training, durability, consistency, and the philosophy that produced Olympic gold and Ironman world titles.

This is one of the deepest and most open conversations ever recorded about how Norway built one of the most dominant endurance systems on earth.
If you’ve ever wondered:

• how LT1 actually works
• why the Norwegians train so easy
• why “threshold” is misunderstood
• how to build durability
• why Norway avoids early specialization
• how to train for 20 years without burnout
…this episode is for you.

🔥 What We Cover (Full Topics)
🏁 1. The Origin Story — 2010 → Bermuda 2018
How a country with barely a dozen juniors created a pipeline that produced Kristian Blummenfelt, Gustav Iden, Casper Stornes, and Solveig Løvseth.
Why the 2018 Bermuda sweep was 8 years in the making.
🏃 2. High Volume, Very Low Intensity
Why 1.0 mmol training changed everything.
Why 5:30/km (or slower!) is essential, not embarrassing.
How durability is built through metabolic control.
📉 3. LT1 vs LT2 — The Real Threshold
Arild explains:
• LT1 ≈ 0.8–1.0 mmol
• LT2 ≈ 2.3–2.7 mmol
• Why the famous “4 mmol threshold” is a historical artifact
• Why most athletes train too hard on easy days
• Why most “threshold sessions” are way too intense
🔁 4. Consistency vs Intensity
Why amateurs burn out with 10hrs of “kind of hard.”
Why 20hrs of “properly easy” builds elite durability.
Energy budgeting → not time budgeting.
🌱 5. Talent Development vs Talent Selection
Norway’s competitive advantage:
• no early cuts
• develop personality traits, not race times
• avoid filtering out late bloomers
• long-term athlete development (LTAD) done properly
👥 6. The Culture Behind Champions
How Kristian, Gustav, and Casper stayed healthy and motivated for a decade.
Team dynamics, fun, maturity, and letting athletes grow without pressure.
⚠️ 7. Mistakes & Lessons
Including the story of overtraining the day after Bermuda…
and why they learned to taper less, not more.
🏊 8. What Other Sports Can Learn (Including Swimming)
Simple aerobic work.
Technical mastery.
Avoiding early specialization traps.
Long-term development over short-term results.

🎯 Who This Episode is For
• coaches who want the real physiology, not the Instagram version
• serious age-groupers and triathletes
• athletes struggling with burnout or inconsistency
• anyone fascinated by high-performance endurance systems

💡 Core Message
High performance isn’t magic. It’s built on patience, volume, fun, culture, and years of truly easy training.

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