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Chasing Excellence

#022: The Importance of Being Strong Enough

Chasing Excellence

Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings

Self-improvement, Selfimprovement, Education, Wellness, Health & Fitness, Goalsetting, Health, Attainability, Fitness

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In this episode: We're talking about why athletes who want to make waves in the sport of CrossFit need to focus on getting strong enough to actually be competitive.

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every year they're reinforcing their standard.

0:01.9

They're kind of telling you what they expect you to be.

0:04.6

So now we know for the games

0:06.5

what they're expecting females to be able to clean, right?

0:09.1

Cause we've had that muscle up clean ladder.

0:11.1

Essentially they're setting the precedent

0:12.7

of you have to be this strong, fill in the blank.

0:16.2

So the precedent is become more and more clear,

0:19.4

but in terms of the importance, that hasn't changed at all.

0:22.0

Even when I was training Chris Speeler back in the day,

0:24.4

we knew the price of admission back then was a 225 snatch.

0:28.4

So we worked our tails off for that 225 snatch.

0:32.2

What confidence is has nothing to do with winning

0:36.0

or the leaderboard.

0:37.3

What confidence is is knowing that you giving

0:41.1

your best efforts is enough.

0:47.8

Okay, Ben.

0:49.0

Hello, how are you?

0:50.0

I'm good, Patrick.

0:52.8

Today we're going to talk about something

0:53.9

that we've talked about a little bit in the past,

0:55.6

but we're going to sort of go a different direction with it.

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