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The Michael Caz Podcast

Running, Endurance training, and Building an engine - Ep. 50

The Michael Caz Podcast

Michael Cazayoux

Health & Fitness, Business

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2016

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Endurance Coach, Nate Helming (@natehelming) is on the show this week. He's here to answer a lot of your questions about running and endurance training including; how often you should be running, how to get over the mental aspects of running, breathing tips, popular running shoes, and his project "The Run Experience", which helps CrossFitters add more running into their programming.

Topics of discussion:

[1:15] Intro, Background, San Francisco CrossFit

  • How Nate fixed a hamstring injury
  • Finding CrossFit

[12:15] How CrossFit changed Nate's training as an endurance athlete

[17:34] Running & CrossFit

  • Building an engine

[23:20] Why do some people HATE running?

[24:07] How much you should be running as an Open athlete

[26:03] How to train endurance

[29:30] Aerobic benefits

  • Breathing
  • The "nose breathing mile" – TRY THIS!!!

[35:00] Jeff Galloway

[39:05] Minimalist shoes VS. Maximalist shoes

[47:54] Mental aspects of running

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up guys? This is Mike Kaju and you're listening to the brute strength podcast.

0:04.0

This week I interviewed endurance coach and entrepreneur Nate Helming.

0:08.6

Nate has worked with some Olympic caliber as well as games athletes on their endurance training as well as

0:15.9

thousands of average Joe's.

0:18.8

We talk a lot about running obviously injury prevention and productivity and more.

0:25.0

Before we get started, if you're interested in free, short free training programs,

0:32.0

videos, blog post, go to our website, sign up for the newsletter at brute

0:36.2

strength training.com. Enjoy the show.

0:39.1

All right, what's up everyone? I'm here with Nate Helming of San Francisco Cross Fit and the Run experience as well as several

0:47.6

other endeavors. Nate, how are you man? I'm doing well, Michael. Thank you so much for making time for me right after you get back from your vacation.

0:57.4

I know you're probably easing back into it, but I appreciate you making time for me, man.

1:02.1

Of course, happy to be here.

1:04.2

So can we start out by just telling everyone

1:07.1

a little bit about your background

1:08.9

and maybe some of the beliefs that you had when you first found San Francisco Cross Fit?

1:17.0

Yeah, you know, I have kind of an interesting story going into that gym, you know, when I started, I thought Crossit was probably

1:26.8

the dumbest thing on the planet and I had no interest in it whatsoever.

1:33.2

At the time I was a competitive triathlete

1:35.9

and I was trying to work my way towards racing

1:39.0

at the professional level.

1:41.4

San Francisco Crossman at the time was in a parking lot behind this like a bike shop and

1:48.4

sporting goods store called Sports Basement.

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