Written Option 2: Only the strong will survive! Or do they? How important part does physical or mental strength training play in your players offseason and how they do it? Are they focusing mostly on lower body strength or do they take more balanced approach? Or is it all about the core strength that helps them stay in right position at the goal? Maybe they think that surviving is really more dependent on mental strength and finding it inside themselves, but is there even a way to train that?

Tom Pedersen is now too old to train as the others. The vacation is spent just relaxing and getting sore body parts back into shape.Tom Pedersen does a lot of hiking in and around Norway to get some cardio exercises, but nothing like running on the treadmill or anything like that anymore. A couple of weeks of hiking to his location for a cabin by the lake in a forest far away from civilization is pure training and joy. Tom Pedersen does all the construction himself and also all the movement of materials. The plan is to have an off grid cabin made by himself to retire to. Tom Pedersen can see the end of his career getting closer and closer for each preseason.Hopefully Tom Pedersen can feature on the popular Norwegian TV show “Der ingen kunne tru att nokon kunne bu” (where nobody believes anybody can live) on channel NRK. It would be a wish come through.