It was a crisp morning today. With the upcoming sun in the horizon it was magical. Somewhere inside of me a feeling, I am longing for the mountains. Get up early, put on skies or the climbing gear. A whole day of activity coming up and a anticipation of upcoming challenges.

Today I will talk about the mountaineering workout. This will involve technical and nontechnical top performance. The altitude can also be a factor to take in consideration. The cardiovascular needs, means that you performing mountaineering need to be able to carry a heavy backpack for long time and kilometres. Due to that you need to build up to at least 4-6 cardiovascular workouts/week. This workouts need to be in mountain environment or at least in hills. Off-season training need to be in the mountain as well. And if you cant that, use cross-country running, sandy-dunes, Hip and ankle strength will be build up. Use row machine, ladder-machines, cross-trainer etc. Step-training is good as well, here you can sign up for a group-training class.

The set up could be like this: Recovery <65 % of MHR(Maximum Heart Rate) Distance workout: 65-75 % of MHR Tempo 75-85 % of MHR and interval 85-95 % of MHR.

Becoming a mountaineerer, you need to have a real good workout program..Endurance..

There are many special trails in Jamtland of Sweden. One a bit forgotten one is the Issjodalen. You reach it from Valadalens mountain station. Its remains from the ice age. It is like get into a valley in the move lords of the rings. Haven’t you been there I can heartily  recommend it.

Issjodalen in Jamtland, a very special place…

And now over to some new gear:

La Sportiva has come up with a new winter shoe.

La Sportiva Tempesta GTX. Lightweight for a waterproof shoe at 11 ounces, the company will market the Tempesta to winter runners who train or race no matter the temp outside.

Fjallraven, has a new jacket, Bergtagen:

Made of partially recycled polyester and treated with a PFC-free DWR for water repellency, the Bergtagen Eco-Shell Jacket from Fjallraven lives up to its name.

And a combined tool:

 

https://ksr-video.imgix.net/projects/2069265/video-735382-h264_high.mp4

And this weeks music, enjoy:

See ya soon..