Training systems for endurance athletes.
Bakken Performance AS publishes books, training programs, and digital resources for structured endurance training, built on threshold-based methods developed and tested over 25 years, from elite 5000m racing to everyday marathon preparation.
Threshold training and intensity control for faster, more durable running at every level.
The technical guide to the training system, with a foreword by Steve Magness. It reached #1 among top-selling running books on Amazon over an 8-week period.
Raskere og skadefri for alle nivåer.
Running! reached #1 on the Norwegian nonfiction bestseller list.
Bakken Performance is operated by Marius Bakken, MD, a Norwegian physician and two-time Olympic 5000m runner with a personal best of 13:06. From the late 1990s he developed lactate-guided threshold training methods that later became part of what is widely known as the Norwegian Method.
He practices as a physician in Kristiansand and writes and publishes through Bakken Performance. More at mariusbakken.com.
The method builds training around one centre: threshold work in a narrow intensity range just below the threshold itself, the Golden Zone, where the stimulus is strong and the cost low enough to repeat the work often. Instead of winning the single session, the aim is to gather high-quality work over months and years.
Marius Bakken began looking for this way of training in 1995 and published the first complete account of its principles and structure in 2022.
An online marathon training program in continuous operation since 2009, with more than 4,000 paying members.