Do you find yourself leaping from one cool fitness trend to another, trying to find the best? Then you’re probably doing it wrong, according to one of Norway’s top specialists in the field.

Dr. Jan Hoff is an exercise-physiologist from The Norwegian School of Sport Sciences and has previously been the National Team head coach for sprinters at the Norwegian Athletics Association and President of the Norwegian Alpine Ski Federation. He is currrently a professor at the Medical Faculty at NTNU and St. Olav University Hospital and has published more than 100 articles on exercise and physiology in renowned peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research and International Journal of Sports Medicine. He has been responsible for physical training of multiple Olympic and World Cup winners. Consultant for several football professionals and teams such as Celtic FC, Barcelona FC, Real Madrid FC and Rosenborg FC to name a few. Together with his colleague Professor Jan Helgerud, he has been researching the best ways to exercise for the last 30 years, and their research on high intensity interval training has been nicknamed “the Norwegian method”.

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