Hybrid athlete training
Chasing strength and endurance in the same block instead of picking one of them
Lifting heavy and running far, trained on purpose at the same time rather than in separate phases of a life. A hybrid week keeps dedicated strength sessions and dedicated endurance sessions, each with its own progression, instead of blending everything into one exhausting circuit. Someone moving over from five lifting days usually drops to three and adds three runs, then builds volume back once the body has adapted. The trade is honest: you will not out-lift a powerlifter or out-run a marathoner, and extra body weight makes running feel heavier. What people get instead is breadth, a plan that survives travel and bad weather, and the option to lean into whichever side a season calls for.
Who backs it
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- Nick BareDoes it
Hybrid athlete · Bare Performance Nutrition founder
Running and lifting together is how he has trained since 2018. He told InsideHook he landed on the word hybrid while writing a plan for himself, because he was chasing two sports at once; others had used the phrase before, he says, but this was his version of it.
Source: InsideHook: How Nick Bare Pioneered the Hybrid Athlete Revolution“I was running 10 miles on Saturday and then ripping 405 pounds on a deadlift on Sunday, which I don’t think is the norm for runners. That is how I love to train, and it’s the way that I always will train.”
InsideHook: How Nick Bare Pioneered the Hybrid Athlete Revolution (opens in a new tab) · 7 Jul 2023
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