Speed training: Get faster on skis
Every athlete wants to develop their speed abilities and become faster. But do you know which types of workouts to include and how often to incorporate them to improve your performance?
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Intervals vs. Speed Endurance – Which develops more?
In this article, let’s return to the topic and consider whether high-intensity speed workouts develop best as steady-state or interval sessions for different individuals, and what kind of intervals should skiers do? We asked Ville Vesterinen, an expert in sports physiology working at the Research Center for Competitive and High-Performance Sports.
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Speed and Interval Training for skiers
Do high-intensity speed workouts work better for some skiers as steady-state efforts and for others as intervals? And what kind of intervals should a skier do? Sports Institute for Olympic Sports Research, with sports physiology expert Ville Vesterinen, provides insights.
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Speed Training Gives A Boost To Long-Distance Skiing
Long-distance skiing is a versatile sport requiring many training hours with diverse workouts increasing an athlete’s physical capacity, endurance, VO2max, strength, and speed. It may not occur to many recreational skiers that long-distance skiing requires speed characteristics, but today’s aggressive skiing style also requires high speed.
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