Thanks for tuning into this episode of the Human Performance Outliers podcast with

Zach Bitter.

All right, folks, welcome back to another episode of the Human Performance Outliers

podcast. I'm your host, Zach Bitter, and today I have a guest interview for you. Today's guest is Nick Bear.

Nick Bear has a degree in nutrition, is a former Army veteran, and he even went to Ranger School.

He's an entrepreneur, popular YouTube and Instagram personality, and founder of Bear Performance Nutrition.

Nick has shown us time and again that strength and endurance can coexist

and likely at a much higher level for both of those efforts than most of us expect.

I was really fortunate to actually build a head north of Austin by a bit and meet Nick at his facility where he records his podcast, trains, and runs his business.

And I mean, I've been to some pretty cool podcast studios between Joe Rogan's setup and Mark Bell set up at the Super Training Gym in Sacramento.

And Nick's is right up there with all those guys. He's got a really cool setup. and Mark Bell set up at the Super Training Gym in Sacramento.

And Nick's is right up there with all those guys.

He's got a really cool setup.

It's fun to meet a lot of the team members they have there and then ultimately sit down in his studio and dive in a bit to what makes Nick tick.

So Nick has tackled a variety of fitness challenges that vary widely.

Rather than aiming to perfect a specific discipline, Nick has continuously poured himself

into a goal and upon completion of that changes directions oftentimes in a very polarizing

manner.

This has included both endurance and

strength-related feats. Nick has targeted a sub-five-minute mile, breaking sub-250 for a

marathon on more than one occasion, completed a full Ironman and completed two very different

hundred mile courses, which were the Leadville 100 and the Rocky Raccoon 100.

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