Nate Helming

<p>Welcome to episode seventeen of the <a href="https://lowtideboyz.com/">Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast!</a></p><p>On this week’s show we have Nate Helming. Nate is an endurance, strength and mobility coach and co-founder of <a href="https://therunexperience.com/">The Run Experience</a>. Lots of great training tips in this episode so be ready to take some notes. </p><p>We learned this week that the shelter in place order for the Bay Area where we live is going to be extended through the end of the month of May. While we are bummed, we know that we are doing our part to slow the spread of the virus. As usual, we encourage everyone to listen to the medical and science experts about best practices and hopefully we will be past this and back to racing soon. </p><p>For shout outs this week we wanted to give props to Brent Molsberry. His <a href="https://www.questraceteam.com/post/i-did-a-swimrun">race report</a> for Ötillö Catalina in an amazing read and we encourage everyone to check it out. Brent is also the Race Director for the <a href="https://www.odysseyswimrun.com/orcas">Odyssey Swimrun Orcas Island</a> race and it might surprise folks to read that Catalina was his first swimrun race!</p><p>Now on to this week’s interview. We were fortunate to get some time on Nate’s busy schedule to chat about the importance of strength training and mobility for endurance athletes. Nate has been Chris’s triathlon and endurance coach for years and we think that everyone will get some benefit from listening to this episode.</p><p>Nate has extensive running, triathlete and strength training experience and has channeled it all into his coaching. He believes that being fit means having the training that allows you to be a complete athlete. He preaches against sport specificity because training variety is what keeps athletes healthy and strong. After being injured and not being able to race the Ironman World Championship he realized that endurance athletes were slipping through the cracks with injuries because most endurance athl