Each person has a different strength in ski mountaineering: either their muscles or their endurance. This also tells how you run or ski. Kilian Jornet explains this concept in detail—and how you can utilize it while racing—in a video interview with Steve House.
Author: Uphill Athlete
In this video interview with Steve House, Kilian Jornet discusses training for multiple sports. He describes how everything is linked: your physical, technical, and mental preparation, even your gear. It needs to be an evolution of everything together.
In this video interview, Kilian Jornet describes how the obstacles you encounter in the mountains can help you progress as an athlete.
In this video interview with Steve House, Kilian Jornet talks about goals and why they are important for training. Not only for staying motivated each day, but also for knowing what you actually have to do to achieve the goal: each year, each month, each week, each day. Training is the process that makes you into a different person. A fitter athlete. Kilian also points out common mistakes with goals, including not being realistic about having the time to do the work needed to achieve your objective.
Kilian Jornet explains in this video interview why he is no longer doing any interval training. He tells Steve House what he does instead, which leads to a discussion of how he manages to race a range of distances and terrain types.
In this video interview with Steve House, Kilian Jornet shares some essential training advice. He touches on athletes who start training later in life, especially those who take on a high training volume while also working and having a family. This means that they have a lot going on besides only training. Kilian points out that whenever you train, it adds stress to your system. Because of this, it is important to remember that time spent at work and/or with family is not necessarily rest for your body. A key takeaway: Training is a long-term progression. As best you can,…
In this video interview with Steve House, Kilian Jornet describes his journey to being able to train by feel. After educating himself about training theory for several years, Kilian began to self-coach at the age of 17. Eventually, thanks to his extensive training and theoretical background, he began to proceed by feel.
When Kilian Jornet started training for skimo racing when he was 13 years old, he worked with two coaches. One coach provided training plans each month, and the other conducted technical training (e.g., how to stride and glide, avalanche courses, and general mountain skills). Between the ages of 13 and 17, Kilian was immersed in this kind of structured training. As a teenager, Kilian didn’t just train; he describes himself as being obsessed with training. He would frequently run 25 kilometers to and then back from school, or he would cycle 60 kilometers to find snow and then do his…
Kilian Jornet talks to Steve House about his childhood. His father, a mountain guide, introduced him to the mountains at a very early age. By the age of 3, he was doing ski ascents and descents of nearby mountains, and by the time he was 5 years old he was climbing 3,000-meter (12,000-foot) peaks with an ice axe and crampons.
I’ve been doing sport for as long as I can remember, mainly mountain sports like rock, ice, and alpine climbing. For the past 20 years, I’ve been going mountaineering all over the world—from the Alps, where I grew up, to the 8,000-meter peaks of the Himalaya where my focus as a professional athlete is right now. I’m also a Union Internationale des Associations d’Alpinisme (UIAA) mountain guide, and when I am not on an expedition, I regularly work with clients climbing in the Alps and beyond. I was especially frustrated by my lack of ability to gain more endurance and…