#022: The Importance of Being Strong Enough
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K 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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| 0:00.0 | 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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