How to be Both Strong and Fast: Nick Bare, the Ultimate Hybrid Athlete
Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running
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🗓️ 27 October 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever thought that you can't be both strong and fast at the same time?
Well, Nick Bare refuses to believe so and it's why many consider him the ultimate hybrid athlete. With a body builder's physique and the ability to run ultras and train for sub 3 marathons at the same time - I don't think that's hyperbole.
In this episode, Nick shares his nutrition and training strategies so you can learn how to become a more hybrid athlete yourself.
You'll learn…
- How Nick balances his nutrition for both running and maintaining muscle
- How he specializes his training so his runs don't catabolize his strength gains
- How to alter your training if you want to maximize your time in both the gym on the roads.
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on, |
| 0:05.0 | going on guys? It is Nick Bear and welcome to the Run to the Top Podcast. |
| 0:17.0 | Hi there, my running friend. |
| 0:19.0 | This is Coach Claire Bartholic, the Planted Runner. |
| 0:22.0 | And this is the Run to the Top Podcast, one of the first and only |
| 0:25.6 | running podcast dedicated to making you a better runner with each and every episode. |
| 0:30.8 | We are created and produced by the expert team of running coaches at runnersconnect.net where you can find the best running information on the internet as well as running coaching plans to fit every runner and every budget. |
| 0:44.0 | If you look at the starting line of a hundred mile ultra marathon, |
| 0:52.0 | most of the runners look well like people who run 100 |
| 0:55.8 | miles for fun. They are lean and light so they don't have to carry any more weight |
| 1:00.4 | than is absolutely necessary. Their main goal is to run for a very long time |
| 1:06.5 | and spending a lot of time working on getting big muscles just isn't specific or necessary |
| 1:12.0 | for ultra-running, unless you're Nick Bear. |
| 1:15.0 | Nick calls himself a hybrid athlete. |
| 1:18.0 | He not only runs the long miles to compete in ultras, |
| 1:21.0 | but he has also built up impressive bodybuilding strength. In other words, Nick does not |
| 1:27.0 | look like he could run even one mile, let alone a hundred in a row. He very well |
| 1:31.9 | might be the world's most jacked ultra-runner. |
| 1:34.4 | How is it possible to be so big and strong and yet also be an accomplished distance |
| 1:40.2 | runner? While Nick is not an elite, he's still pretty darn fast and has run under three hours for the marathon after shedding quite a bit of his hard-earned muscle. |
| 1:50.0 | He launched his eight-figure business, Bear Performance Nutrition, while still in college, |
| 1:54.8 | and then joined the US Army, where he quickly rose up the ranks to become an infantry platoon leader. |
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