In this episode we are back in the lab in Bergen. Getting a few tests in to fine tune the training for a training block in Sierra Nevada.
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Post more man! We need the content from the best! 🔥🔥
This videos summarize the beautiful reality of professional endurance sport. Sticking up a thermometer from behind, going hard for several hour in a cave without music, push down a huge Nutella sandwich and then going for more hours in the pool. Wish you all the best on your camp!
not to take away from the romantic, but it were two separate days
@@gaiusvelleius when he’s eating his sandwich he says: “now I’m gonna head to the pool to swim 1 hour easy, and then it’s swim test tomorrow”.
You can see why he is so strong and fast. He has 3 lungs and 2 hearts. Beast.
Sein Brustkorb bräuchte mehr Platz
Excitet for next videos!!!🎉
Impressive shape. Great to see new content. Thank you for the insight. 👍🏻
Thanks for sharing, you are always inspiring! I love seeing the dedication to testing. Last year I really focused on testing (well just field tests), and saw a huge improvement. Great advice for all athletes.
YES, Love it!!!! Keep the content coming!
Thanks for sharing your sessions!
After Covid i coming from down under... ... but with this inspiration it is so motivation for me to come back to my old numbers
Thank you for the great insights! Rooting for you in Paris 🚀🚀🚀🔥🔥🔥
Amazing. Thank you!!!
YES YES KB back in the Building WOOP!!!!!
Yesss!! You have been missed sir! Keep them coming
Great coverage and greets from Germany 🤩💪
Legend. A proper masterclass
Thanks for the insides, nice to see you back here, have a good training camp and perhaps we see something about that.
Amazing video! Thanks!!!
Really cool video, it's really cool that you're making videos again. I wish you all the best for Paris, I hope you get it. As an age grouper, it's just great to see such insights into your training and race preparation. Fred Funk does it really well too, I'm looking forward to new videos. Greetings from Germany
generally love the Norwegian hype train and the spirit 🇳🇴🚂🚂
Big dog, join us for a podcast soon! 🐶
are you going to bark at each other? might tune in!
Keen to hear the thermometer “from behind” discussed in the next pod…?!
we need more content like this 🔥🔥
You know its good when you watched frlm the start to end in your bed. Good job man!
Fck yes! Welcome back!
Love the insights!
Nice to have you back Kristian!
Really really good we like this🔥 Hope Kristian the best fort Paris 🏆and a good return for Gustav 🔥🔥🔥 Thank you Roj for the vid 🔥🔥
Could watch Blu all day 🤩 Best content out there 🫡
So good video. Really professional made. Everything is the best you can have. From the athletes to the technical equipments. I smiled when I saw the sweet swim coach use the pen and the notebook 😇, in the middle of all high tech. You are so impressive in 🇳🇴 Norway. // Marie-Louise 🇸🇪
I love it! Back to publishing content please 😍
Thanks for sharing! And all the best on the way for Yokohama! :-)! (And hopefully a good block for Gustav too!)
Always amazes me to watch these. These dudes are science experiments & it’s interesting.
Best easter surprise!
Yes !! Another video from the goat
How much passion...go man! 🤙
KB is the GOAT of our sport. Nobody won Oly gold and IM world title in one years time span. It's the hardest thing to do and he is the only one. Everything else has been done by multiple people.
Alistair won 22 WTS from 30 starts (71% win rate), won all WTS races in 2009, and won 2 olympic gold medals. Than you have Gomez who won 5 ITU world titles and almost 50 WTS podiums. Winning Ironman WC in St. George is BIG achievement, but you can’t compare it with winning 15 WTS races. And don’t forget in this races Alistair was beating Frodeno often for 1-2 minutes. I really looking forward to see if Blu can win 2nd Olympic gold, would really like to see him winning again, what an amazing athlete with great mentality
@@juancarlosjuancarlos4629Olympic distance and Ironman are two completely different distances - it’s almost impossible to be the best at both (win the Olympics and world Ironman championships consecutively) and Kristian has shown that. Brownlee was great at ITU distance but is terrible at Ironman distance. Same applies to Gomez but blummenfelt has shown to dominate both distances
@@jimjamthebananaman1 both Gomez and Ali won Ironman distances. They both have PBs of around 7:45h. Apart from that Gomez has 2 70.3 world titles where he beat Frodo without even training on the TT bikes Actually Gomez came back after winning Ironman Malasya in 2018 and beat both Blu and Iden in his first olympic distance WTS (Bermuda 2019) and he was already 36 years old. In his 20s and mid 30s Javi didn’t race long distance because he was still winning world championships titles in short course racing. Both Gomez and Brownlee were racing their best 10-12 years on ITU circuit simply because they were strong enough to stay there and keep winning. Frodo for example moved to long distance because he had no chance to match them. Blu is exceptional. Winning olympic gold, ITU world title and then winning Ironman WC in St. George is one of the best triathlon achievements. I am fan of his hardworking ethics and I will cheer for him in Paris. But people tend to forget how good Gomez was (5 world titles, 2 70.3 WC titles, X-Terra world title, U23 world title, winning 15 WTS races + 12 world cups from 2006-2008 and winning over 40 WTS podiums is absolutely sick) Gomez has more WTS wins and podiums than Blu, Iden + Frodo together. Brownlee has 22 WTS wins. Winning WTS race is probably harder than winning WC in Kona because there are so many professional athletes racing ITU circuit: France, Germans, Brits, Australians, Spaniards… level is so high.
Brilliant content KB 👌 👏 👍
its about time!
Oh hell yes
Welcome back, champ!
Best video mate
What a legend
Nice ! Thank you !
Great video! So interesting!
So motivating!!! 🚀🚀🚀
Freaking Brilliant Vid!! GG!
Blu this is your year, you are the next GOAT in tri, watch out for yee in Paris, blessings 🙏 🇨🇴🌎❤️🔥
Hey Kristian, the master, would love to learn more about your nutrition and how you time it for training and recovery. Looking forward to see you in Paris, crushing it 💪🏼
You are a beast! 💪
Gotta love Blu & Bu!
wow great video and insights. @kristianblumenfelt some questions regarding the running lab tests. you did at first a lactate tests with different steps. how long where the steps and at which pace and how many steps? after that you did a vo2 max. test, which steps did you take there? and how long where the breaks between the lactate testing and vo2 max Tests? keep up the great work and i wish you a good training camp in the sierra nevada
Finally🎉
beast!
Beast mode activated, Gold in Paris 💯💪💪
Let's Go Blumenfelt, the Olympics awaits you. 🏆🏊🏻♂️🚴🏻♂️🏃🏻♂️🔥
Great vid! Would be great to learn more about how you stay healthy doing so much training volume? Is it strength work, massage, etc
The beast
❤❤love you, the best from Lima Perú
Fantastic camerawork
Love it m8
great video!!!!:)
monstroooooo KB :)
GG video
Does Kristian put the HR sensor to the right because he has dextrocardia or is it just easier with his chest bump?
The New Norwegian Method .. Wireless Digital Rectal Thermometer.. what could go wrong?
I may have taken a nap while Olav explained calibrating your sensors 12 times 😂
See you in Sierra Nevada chaps
You can never go wrong with bread and nutella!
This is some demolition man shit right here. Dude is a machine!! 💪
nice intro and overall content 🤌
Mando bem man 🤙🏽😎🇧🇷☝🏽
Thanks for such a content from the goat triathlete Big Blue and the best physiologist Olav. The slogan for this video could be : without engines,the véhicule is nothing. Such a différent body,he's so large and not very cut. Thanks to him,i qtarted to train cause my vehicle is the same,noy the engine unfortunatly. Paris, Kristian is coming 🥇. I'm. Bit sad fir gustav,he has a terrible pzrsonnal year 23, i think he's a bit behind but wish the brst to him andvmy friend kenji. I met them in fo't Romeu and they are thé most delicate and humble team. Aller Kristian
This is why he's the best in the world
VE 280 ---- Holly Molly
Great vlog. Your quirky character is just so much entertainment 👍. Question… Do you ever fear these test sessions?
Probably fears breaking the equipment and Olav making him replace it
Its obviously easy to take on three days of testing if I know the training has been good leading up to it, but it is also good to understand what’s “wrong” or how does the “picture” look like when I’m out of shape and to understand what I need to do in order to get back. So I might not fear them, but sometimes it’s less pleasant to get the truth
We missed you Blu 🤌
hmm, does that plasmaide help to flush lactic acid better, or why you take it?
The king is back Motherf@@@@@
Big Bluuuuuu! Question: do you always do your treadmill sessions on a 1.5% grade? Did Olav choose that for a specific reason? Killin it!
It's just to compensate for the fact that treadmill runs itself while outside you propel yourself forward
I think 1.5% is considered more than enough to compensate outside because of the high speed, 12/13km/h you don’t need put 1.5% , 1% is just fine.
KB is looking leaaaaan.
28:19 Imagine you're in the 11th century and a Viking fighter is running toward you....
That#s what champions are made of: blood, sweat and strides
So, to summarise: after V02 specific training block - BIG V02 numbers, but after a race specific training block (leading into Abu Dhabi) - lower V02 numbers, but more efficiency?
1, 2, 3 ALLEZ!☮
You are doing temperature testing in multiple places so you can see how you get right, but you understand heat production but how can you shift it, there is nothing else you can do that anyone else can do, ice water etc is all anyone has to do
Best Vid is on Tri-Mag from Abu Dhabi he solo destroyed the hole german national team, as a warm Up. What a legend 😂
Link?
Would be nice to have more numbers about the swim tests. Hard to know what "best times since Tokyo" means in numbers
How can coach Alexander allow nutella? Good content 👍
What is up with his chest shape? The cartilage and bones in the center are not usual?
He is a ciborg
28:20 Machine vs. Machine 😆
How much is the fish?
Are you going to auction off that core temperature sensor?
😂🤢
He looks like my techno buddy from years ago who always hit the pedal to the metal
Don’t reckon he can run 10km faster than Yee but don’t know what happens in a 10km run at the end of a 100min aerobic event…. Only query would be whats Blu’s 5km run pace like now. That’s critical to Paris.
You could just do day to day vlogs, extremely interested to follow you more in day to day stuff
What is your vo2max?
He tells you it’s in the mid-90’s after the run test
Are you here in Singapore? Thought i passed by you at Mount faber this morning.
Nope, just my lookalike. I’m in Spain
Anyone know the date/time hes racing in paris??
The morning of July 30th
How long was he running at 20KPH for???
The first steps is 8x6min from 14-21kph, so 6min
7L Vo2Max, why do others even try to compete?? xD good luck guys xD
What about strength training?
He's not actually drinking red bull while testing, right?