Wallberg’s special training on the beach – drags at 20 kilos

The beach on a Greek island bathes in the evening sun.

Like a small dot, past individual charter tourists ejected on the bath towel, the Olympic a hump in humpback disappears farther and further away in the dust, and then turns around and just as stubbornly wander back.

Walter Wallberg’s feet sink down among loose stones for each step.

Behind him, a weight plate of 20 kilos drags attached to a long line that has been attached to a breast harness around the upper body.

The « sled » is his New portable training tools. And it has been accompanied by the Swedish Olympic Committee’s Olympics in Crete.

After six minutes of hard wear four times, where the rope sometimes gets stuck in the stones behind him, the 25-year-old throws himself down to the ground.

– I’m sooo tired, he says.

– It was sick good training actually, I don’t think I’ve had this high pulse for two years.

He continues:

– It was heavier than I thought, very grisly but a fun training method. I think it will be a complement even at home.

After a while, cross -country skiers William Poromaa arrives on the beach and wonders what the friend is really doing. Wallberg shows, Poromaa gets to try to pull.

What do the others say in the humpback team, then?

« They probably don’t know I’m here, » Walter Wallberg replies, laughing.

Special training at The beach, just like most of the Olympics, is part of a larger plan.

Walter Wallberg became Olympic champion in 2022 but the body has said both once and twice.

It has been knees, back and now the last shoulder ghosts.

How does this work for your knees?

– The knees are doing well! There is no problem. But it always moves …, says Wallberg with a wry smile about the injury problems.

Last winter he abstained several World Cup competitions and even the World Cup, in order to undergo a Shoulder surgery. Once and for all, he wanted to get a scarred body.

When we see you in May, the shoulder makes him neither cycling nor swimming, something he did a lot last year.

– I must not run either so I have to go. That’s why the sled is so good, it slows down so it gets heavy anyway.

– Right now I have to find other complements for fitness training, and exercise that builds leg strength.

IN The teens were He early with physical training In a sport whose stamp was then a bit « lattjo lajban », Walter Wallberg has previously told DN. When he was injured before the Beijing Olympics, he started two companies, one of which sold linen trousers. And before last year’s season, he made another new choice to both hold physically in the long run and get better on the slopes.

Walter Wallberg hired Johan Röjler on his own, the success coach of former skating king Nils van der Poel, as a new ball board and the former national team swimmer Simon Sjödin as a swim coach. In also came the physiotherapist Vladimir Egorov, who also helps NHL players.

The sled was Egorov’s idea, says Wallberg, who despite injury concerns is already selected for the Olympics in Italy in 2026.

– I see my career as a company, when I get injured, I have to find new ways to come back, new ways to get better. When I come back, I want to be ten percent better, even though I missed skiing.

– So I always try to find new people to work with, new ways to do things, just go my own way all the time.

He hopes Get started with more « regular » pre -season training during the summer, but it still takes a while before he can ski. Maybe until the end of July.

– But I feel no stress over, because I get a good build -up period now.

The goal this winter can be nothing but defending its Olympic gold, Walter Wallberg continues.

In recent years he has dared to listen more to his body. It will pay dividends in February.

– I have gone before when I have been injured, but it is difficult to ride a humpback piste of 70 percent. You have to be 110. Then I don’t want to go to a World Cup competition and get in 15th place, I go there to win. So I’ve learned to be a little more mature, and dare to stand over competitions. And now that the Olympics are such a big focus, I will really be honest with myself.

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