154: What Hybrid Training Is, What It Isn’t, and Why You Should Do It
The Nick Bare Podcast
Nick Bare
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🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I break down hybrid athlete training—how to pair heavy lifting with endurance running without burning out. I share what I’m learning from Ironman prep, why flexibility beats perfection, and the biggest myths holding athletes back. From military lessons to the post-pandemic rise of hybrid training, this is how to balance strength and endurance.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Introduction
02:22 Defining Hybrid Training
07:33 Addressing Criticisms of Hybrid Training
13:15 Historical Influences on Hybrid Training
16:24 Personal Journey and Training Philosophy
27:27 Flexibility in Hybrid Training
33:46 Adapting Training to Different Goals
36:11 Current Training Focus and Routine
40:34 Sample Weekly Training Schedule
47:25 Adjusting Training Based on Goals
51:37 Balancing Strength and Endurance
54:32 Optimizing Training Sessions
58:24 Managing Lower Body Strength and Running
01:04:01 Personalizing Your Hybrid Training
01:06:03 Conclusion and Future Content
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome back to another episode of the podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | Today's conversation is all about hybrid athlete training, lifting heavy and running far. |
| 0:20.2 | And this is very timely for me and the BPN brand. |
| 0:26.4 | As you may know, I just wrapped up my Ironman triathlon prep about a month ago. |
| 0:33.4 | The race was November 16th, 2025. |
| 0:37.4 | We are now in the middle of December approaching |
| 0:39.7 | 2006. And since the Iron Man ended, my training has shifted back towards a hybrid training |
| 0:48.1 | model, a blend or combination of endurance training, primarily being running, and then strength training. |
| 0:57.8 | And it feels so good to be back in the gym. I will tell you, I've said this many times before, |
| 1:03.6 | but at the core of who I am, Nick Bear is a meathead. |
| 1:12.6 | I love being in the gym. |
| 1:14.1 | I love throwing around weight. |
| 1:15.3 | I love getting a pump. |
| 1:17.9 | I love lifting weights. |
| 1:19.9 | I always have. |
| 1:21.0 | I always will. |
| 1:27.4 | There's times and places to approach training with a more specialized and specific model or methods. |
| 1:33.7 | And that's what I had to do during my Iron Man prep. |
| 1:36.8 | I stopped training, strength training, almost completely for 18 to 20 weeks. |
| 1:48.0 | I lost a lot of weight. I lost a lot of size, I lost a lot of strength, lost a lot of muscle, not necessarily in my lower body, |
| 1:52.0 | in my legs, but my upper body. |
| 1:54.0 | And I got fast and I got fit, and it was conducive to |
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