#017: Preparing for the Games
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2017
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Talking about my month-long CrossFit Games training camp, why eliminating distractions are important, & how excellence is contagious.
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| 0:00.0 | You have to get to that level where this is an instinctual thing that you know who you are and why you're here. |
| 0:08.0 | And if you know who you are and why you're here, when it becomes push comes the shove and it is the last 30 seconds of that workout, even better, |
| 0:17.0 | the middle round of that 10 round workout where you start questioning yourself, it's not there anymore. |
| 0:24.0 | The questions go away because you believe in what you're doing. You know why you're there. |
| 0:30.0 | And it becomes this instinctual automatic thing that all the other questions go away. |
| 0:35.0 | My goal is to get my athletes in this 30 days to that level. |
| 0:40.0 | What confidence is, has nothing to do with winning or the leaderboard. |
| 0:45.0 | What confidence is, is knowing that you giving your best efforts is enough. |
| 0:52.0 | What confidence is enough. |
| 0:56.0 | Okay Ben, we've not done this in a while and people yelled at us on Instagram. |
| 1:01.0 | I missed you, man. |
| 1:03.0 | I know. Obviously very busy time. So that's what I kind of thought we would talk about. |
| 1:08.0 | Time before and around the games is always very important for you to make sure you're focusing on the right things and the right things. |
| 1:19.0 | This time of year is the CrossFit Games and specifically your athletes. |
| 1:23.0 | So first thing first is just like talk to us about what this month looks like or maybe, or maybe like the whatever it was, |
| 1:32.0 | six weeks maybe between regionals ending and the games coming up. |
| 1:37.0 | Like how do you even start to think about maximizing those very short days so that when, you know, everybody's lining up day one on Madison, |
| 1:47.0 | you're like, okay, we did everything or we did what we needed to do. |
| 1:50.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:51.0 | Exactly right. This is a very crucial time in the development of the athletes to make sure they can perform, come and visualize early August this year at the Games. |
| 2:02.0 | So backing up at the end of the regional season, all the athletes take a recovery time about a week and I took the same thing with, and I went to Iceland with my family. |
| 2:13.0 | I went there with Katrin as well, but knowing what was coming up, I wanted that time, that special time with my family, knowing that we were going to not say I was going to go totally in balance, but I was going to put a lot more of my own resources into working with the athletes. |
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