Physical training
Explore endurance, strength, training load and recovery for orienteering. Practical guidance to connect physical preparation with the demands of racing.
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Unleashing Your Potential: A Practical Guide to the Complete Series
A practical guide to the complete Unleashing Your Potential series, organised around the questions that matter in training.
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Unleashing Your Potential: The Hidden Load in Orienteering Performance
How training, travel, recovery and life demands can affect the clarity an orienteer brings to the next decision.
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Unleashing Your Potential: Are You Training Hard or Just Training Tired?
Look at the response to the work, not only the amount completed. Productive training needs a clear stimulus and enough recovery to benefit from it.
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Unleashing Your Potential: Understanding Olympiatoppen’s Intensity Scale
Use intensity zones to describe the work you intend to do, then check that the athlete is actually doing it.
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Unleashing Your Potential: Periodization in Orienteering Training
Build a season around the demands of your races, the athlete in front of you and the work that needs time to develop.
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Unleashing Your Potential: HIIT Training for Runners and Orienteers
Choose the purpose, control the effort and judge the quality of the work. The interval format is only the starting point.
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Unleashing Your Potential: Training and Competition Around the Menstrual Cycle
Use individual experience, symptoms and open communication to guide training. A calendar alone cannot tell an athlete how she will perform.
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Unleashing Your Potential: Uphill Training for Orienteers
Choose the hill session according to the demand you want to develop, then make it fit the terrain and the training week.
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Unleashing Your Potential: Making Sense of Altitude Training
Altitude can be useful, but the purpose, exposure and cost to the rest of the training plan must be clear.
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Unleashing Your Potential: Strength Training for Runners and Orienteers
Build the strength your running needs, with a programme you can progress and recover from.