Frida Karlsson answers the question about the picture that everyone is wondering about

What is Frida Karlsson breathing in through that pipe?
The question has been asked by many – now the skiing star comes with the long-awaited answer.

Like many of his Swedish national team colleagues have Frida Karlsson25, has been at a training camp at high altitude this summer. On Instagram, she recently showed that she and several of the other skiers went to the Italian Passo Lavazè Cross-Country Ski Center to hone their form for the new season.

Known ground for Frida Karlsson

The training facility is located in the Trentino region, near Val di Fiemme where Alpe Cermis is located. It is on that slope that the Tour de Ski is decided every year. It is a place that Frida Karlsson absolutely loves. She won the entire Tour de Ski in the 2022/2023 season – as the first Swede since Charlotte Kalla did it in 2007/2008.

“Lavazé for new height weeks,” writes Frida on Instagram. In the pictures, she can be seen walking and running with poles at high altitude in the mountains. Also Lynn Svahn, Maja Dahlqvist and Johan Häggström appears in the images.

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There is a detail in two of the images that people react to. It’s about a hose that she has in her mouth. There are many who simply do not know what it is that she inhales or ingests through the tube.

“Lovely pictures! What are you breathing in?”, asks a follower on Instagram.

Frida Karlsson explains the picture

There are many ways to optimize your training as an elite athlete. You can take various nutritional supplements, regulate sleep and food, adjust the training volume and, for example, train at high altitude to adapt the body. But in this case, the answer to Frida Karlsson’s slang is much simpler than many might have thought.

“It’s a liquid spine,” she informs.

Of course, the cross-country skiers take water with them up the mountain when they train. It goes without saying that it will be both hot and hard to run uphill and downhill. Then they need to fill up with liquid.

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“Haha ok. I thought maybe you were breathing in some cool gas, like carbon dioxide for example. It is the very latest to increase performance, among other things,” comments the person who asked the question.

Good luck with the new season, Frida. Hope you get off to a flying start and can join and challenge for the medals in the WC next year.

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