#024: Fueling the CrossFit Athlete
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
We're talking about why nutrition is so important in the sport of CrossFit, ideal body fat percentages for athletes, & what supplements I recommend CrossFit athletes take.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | of these three which do you think is the most important? |
| 0:03.6 | Strength, skills or conditioning in our sport? |
| 0:06.2 | What would you say? |
| 0:07.7 | Conditioning. |
| 0:08.5 | Conditioning, okay. |
| 0:09.4 | So conditioning, meaning metcons, right? |
| 0:13.7 | Well, metcons stands for metabolic conditioning. |
| 0:18.1 | Metabolic is your ability to use food as energy. |
| 0:23.3 | That's what our sport is. |
| 0:24.6 | Our sport is how good are you at taking the food you have |
| 0:28.2 | and turning it into movement. |
| 0:31.2 | That's the test. |
| 0:33.0 | What confidence is, has nothing to do with winning or the leaderboard. |
| 0:37.2 | What confidence is, is knowing that you giving your best efforts is enough. |
| 0:45.2 | Okay, Ben. |
| 0:49.0 | Welcome back. |
| 0:50.0 | How are you? |
| 0:51.0 | Good. |
| 0:52.0 | Today we're going to talk about something we've talked about a little bit before, but |
| 0:55.9 | looking at it differently. |
| 0:58.2 | We've had an episode before, I forget which number, but on simplifying nutrition, |
| 1:02.5 | how you think about nutrition, how you talk to maybe more members at CFNE about how |
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