#60 - From Pro Tennis Player To Pro Triathlete With Natasha Van Der Merwe

The Nick Bare Podcast

Nick Bare

Health & Fitness

5 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Bare Performance Podcast, Nick Bare sits down with Natasha Van Der Merwe to talk about her triathlon journey.

Natasha is a Bare Performance Nutrition athlete, pro triathlete, mother and wife. She resides in Austin, Texas and runs NVDM Coaching. Natasha is from South Africa where she started her fitness journey as a pro tennis player, moved to the Bahamas, found triathlon, which brought her to the United States and from there she started dominating the sport.

Listen to Natasha share tips about triathlon training, how she helped coach Nick to make massive gains in his fitness/endurance and her philosophy towards coaching.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	What's going on guys welcome back to another episode of the Bear Performance Podcast.
0:14.1	I am your host Nick Bear, CEO and founder of Bear Performance Centrition.
0:19.3	And today we have special guest on long time coming coach Natasha, my personal Ironman
0:27.4	coach, VPN athlete and man you do a lot.
0:35.0	What give the official bio of yourself you would briefly.
0:40.4	I'll start personal obviously wife mother and then as far as my job professional
0:48.5	athlete I have been for 12 years.
0:51.0	Been coaching for about that amount of time as well, definitely evolved and then I also
0:55.9	have a position with bicycle world and I managed their ambassador team as well as put on
1:01.2	camps and clinics for them.
1:02.7	We haven't done as much recently because of obviously COVID but prior to that I was
1:06.8	going to almost they had a number of bike stores all around Texas.
1:10.5	So I was going to the bike store almost every single weekend and putting on a clinic or
1:14.4	camp and yeah.
1:16.7	I feel like there are many training sessions together like every time we do a big bike
1:21.7	workout I found a new job or project you've done.
1:25.1	I'm trying to paint this timeline in my mind when you tell me the stories of your life
1:32.8	and like what life are we currently on right now.
1:37.0	Tell me about it.
1:38.0	My life has evolved so much.
1:39.9	I mean I don't think I've told you even half of it to be honest.
1:42.3	I've had so many jobs.
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