Training With Tynell: “Dare To Love The Pain”

Less than two months until Vasaloppet, and now it may be time to try increasing the speed during specific training sessions and step into that zone where it “starts to hurt.” Langd.se’s coach Daniel Tynell shares his training tips about speed sessions and interval training. 

Less than two months until Vasaloppet, and now it may be time to try increasing the speed during specific training sessions and step into that zone where it “starts to hurt.” Langd.se’s coach Daniel Tynell shares his training tips about speed sessions and interval training. 

Are you racing at Vasaloppet this winter? Vasaloppet legend Daniel Tynell shares his training tips: key sessions, technique, and tactics – until Vasaloppet on March 5, 2023.

Daniel Tynell has won Vasaloppet three times, one of only a handful to achieve this feat in the race’s 100-year history. Tynell has been on the Vasaloppet’s podium seven times and among the top seven, ten times.

Training With Tynell

Daniel Tynell is now a coach on our Swedish sister site Längd.se. During winter, Tynell goes through everything, from double poling technique to mental preparations, what it takes to perform at your best and which key training sessions should be included in the run-up to Vasaloppet.  

Tynell brings training advice and recommendations for both elite and recreational skiers – whether you start in the first wave and are chasing a new personal best or far behind and want to complete the 90km race in style.  

Downhill and uphill techniques were the last article’s focus.

Click Here To Read – “Vasaloppet Training With Daniel Tynell: “Dare To Challenge Yourself In The Downhills” 

In today’s training article, Tynell goes through speed sessions and interval training.

Click Here To Read – Vasaloppet Training With Daniel Tynell: “Dare To Love The Pain” 

During winter, Daniel Tynell will write columns on ProXCskiing.com’s Swedish sister site Längd.se (hence the column is written in Swedish), and you can access Tynells’s eight-part training program. To read the text (from the second article), you need to register as a member.

As a member, you have access to Tynell’s eight training articles. 

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