

Julia Kern
๐บ๐ธ Olympic XC Skier
How many hours do I train a year? I track mine with an Excel spreadsheet right now. And last year, I trained 625 hours the year before I train 650 in cross-country, skiing, they often say, don't increase your hours more than 50 a year. And I think there is a big focus and emphasis often on how many hours you should train in a year. But I think it's really a person dependent. How much you're building up from, and what works? Well for you. I would say I'm on the End of the spectrum for professional cross-country skiing I had teammates, who trained 800 850? So, I would say like professional skiers probably train anywhere between 600 to 1,000 hours, so it's quite a big range and it's very person dependent for me if I train more, which I learned two years ago when I did 650 and bumped it up was I just got really tired and didn't have good energy. So I like to train a little bit on the lower volume side and have really high quality workouts and I focus Less on. Volume. But making sure that I have really big weeks and then big deload weeks and making sure that I really recover in those easy weeks. So this year, I'm aiming for 650 again but probably somewhere between 600 and 650 hours. So right now I'm on track for the most part and I guess we'll see how the rest of the season goes.