Several years ago, a friend of mine came back to Melbourne for a visit. At the time, he’d recently been on Australia’s national squad for long-track ice skating, narrowly missing out on representing the country at the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games, and he’d transitioned into coaching the Danish junior team.
Knowing that he not only had first-hand experience of elite-level training, but that his inquisitive nature and University education in science and mathematics meant that he would have investigated the sports science behind the training, over a beer and some dinner, I asked what his prescription for a “general fitness” training routine might be. Continue reading What I mean by general fitness…