What Jakob Ingebrigtsen is doing in athletics right now is insane.

He's the current 5000-meter World Champion 1500 meter Olympic gold medalist and last weekend he obliterated the rest of the field in a world record for the 2-mile distance. He won by a massive 4 seconds where he was so far out in front of the rest of the field, it actually looks like a high school race. Plus he's only 22 years old, meaning we could be witnessing the start of one of the most historic athletic careers in history.

So how is he so good? And what is he doing differently from all the other athletes out there?

The Ingebrigtsen family including his father, who is his coach are renowned for some of their strange or unique methods and approaches to training and racing. And today, we're going to discuss 15 of their known training and racing principles that have propelled him to this level.

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00:00 - Introduction
02:20 - Gratitude
04:15 - Gerard’s Recovery Journey
07:30 - Training Opportunities and Motivation
10:15 - Paris Diamond League World Records
12:50 - Jakob Ingebrigtsen’s Training Principles
17:00 - Principle #1: High Volume
21:00 - Principle #2: Consistency (No Rest Days)
22:40 - Principle #3: Conservative (Health is Priority)
24:40 - Principle #4: Don’t Go too Hard in Training
26:30 - Principle #5: Minimal Track Sessions
29:30 - Principle #6: Must Do Hill Repeats
32:00 - Principle #7: Use Races for Intensity
34:40 - Principle #8: Race All Year Round
37:25 - Example Training Week
42:20 - Principle #9: Good Quality Sleep
43:30 - Principle #10: Eating Easily Digestible Foods
45:30 - Principle #11: Conserve Energy for Race Day
45:55 - Principle #12: Pre-race Nerves (Practice to Calm Yourself)
50:00 - Principle #13: Having a Race Plan, but Be Open Minded
53:45 - Principle #14: Get to Your Race Pace as Fast as Possible
56:15 - Principle #15: Aim for Negative Split

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