How many hours do you train a year?

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Jessie Diggins · Answer

This is different every single year. We actually dropped my hours in the Olympic year to help me do kind of a four-year super peak cycle. This year, it will be around 875 hours a year. However, the one thing I will tell, especially young skiers is it really-- the hours that you train is super individual. It will be different for every single athlete. It will probably be different every year of your life. And I think it's really important to make sure that it's quality hours. Don't just chase the number. Don't just chase bigger and bigger hours. Make sure that what you're doing in those hours is right for you and that you recover from it, because it's recovering from the hours of training, that is where the magic is going to happen. And that's where you're actually going to get faster and stronger.

Julia Kern · Answer

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.

Matt Whitcomb · Answer

Brett, so the question is how many hours do you train in a year? And I'm a coach so I'm just going to answer sort of based on perhaps what our team does. Our team on the World Cup trains on the low end at around 650-680 hours per year. Those would be younger skiers all the way up to at the extreme end, 1200 hours a year. However the right amount of training is the amount that you as an athlete can absorb. Because there's nothing more simple than just going out and training a lot. The question is does that volume of training make you any faster? And for a lot of people more is not better. So we tend to increase from the young age we tend to increase volume by just general rule of thumb by 10% or something like that. 50 hours a year could be added. So as a junior you might do 450 one year and then 500 the next all the way up to maybe close to 900 hours as a senior racer. Later in one's career the volume tends to plateau and you might be stuck at 800 or 850 or 900 hours a year for multiple years in a row. The variations within those years then are based more on the type of training that build up those hours. Volume is just one simple metric. There's a lot else in there.

Gus Schumacher · Answer

How many hours do I train a year this year? I will do about 1,000 maybe slightly under, and it's a little dependent on, you know, if I get sick the rest of the year. But I like, Jessie's answer this question, that that's very individual, and I've worked up on that for many years and made sure that there's a balance there that I can tolerate, and I have enough recovery. Because if you're not resting enough between sessions, you're not going to adapt to them. So it's not that helpful would be better to train less and adapt. Better. And that's always a hard thing to get, right. I think there's not like a ton of things that you can like a ton of hard numbers that you can look at to see if you're adapting or not. I think you just have to go with a coach and based on feel feel if you're like getting better and able to absorb that training and you're not just like tired all the time.

JC Schoonmaker · Answer

The question is, how many hours do you train a year? So this year, I was aiming to train 820 hours, definitely. A little bit behind that goal because I sprained my ankle, this fall and missed out on a couple weeks of training just didn't quite get the volume I needed. So, I'm around probably going to get her down to 800 this year. If everything goes, well, I'm not trying to make up those missed hours or anything but that's a pretty big jump. For me last year. I trained 700 in the Air before that I trained 730. So 120 was a pretty big jump, but so far I'm handling it pretty well. And that's kind of the most important part because at the end of the day, the hours that you trained aren't necessarily going to make you a better skier, it's actually just getting faster and making sure that you're handling those hours. Well,

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