#027: The Development of a Champion
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
We're breaking down the theoretical development of a champion & what makes the difference between good athletes & great athletes.
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| 0:00.0 | The process is defining what is ultimately within your control. |
| 0:05.6 | In our world and the sport of CrossFit, it's five things. It's your nutrition, your sleep, |
| 0:10.2 | your training, your recovery, and your mindset. If you can maximize those five things while ignoring |
| 0:17.3 | everything else, then you're really going to be able to move your performance level in terms of |
| 0:22.4 | your ability. If you have better ability, now you have the option to run the zone. You have the |
| 0:26.9 | option to throw the ball deep. Without the skill sets there, you don't have those options. You |
| 0:34.6 | got to do what your capable of. What confidence is has nothing to do with winning or the leaderboard. |
| 0:41.8 | What confidence is is knowing that you giving your best efforts is enough. |
| 0:48.6 | Good. Good. All right, sir. How are you? Good. |
| 0:58.8 | Talking today or I wanted to talk to you today about something that I've heard you |
| 1:03.5 | referenced in the past. I know it's a big sort of underpinning of the book, |
| 1:09.6 | is this idea of the development of a champion. That it is significantly deeper than |
| 1:20.5 | who's the best athlete, for example, or who works the hardest. It's complicated. It isn't the right |
| 1:28.4 | word. Maybe complex is a better word for it. I thought we'd dive into what that means and what |
| 1:35.6 | looks like to you as a coach of high level athletes. Maybe even just as a coach of, |
| 1:44.6 | I don't want to say normal people, but people who aren't Catrin. What does that mean the development |
| 1:50.9 | of a champion? I take a four tiered approach to the development of a champion or development of |
| 2:00.3 | my athletes or development of fill in the blank, a mom or a salesperson or whoever it is. |
| 2:06.4 | The first thing that most people focus on is ability. I'm sorry, even before ability, |
| 2:12.7 | is the thing that most people focus on is the strategy or the game plan. In our world and CrossFit, |
| 2:20.8 | it's, are you going to do 30 muscles for time? Are you going to do 10 sets of three? You're going to do |
| 2:27.1 | 30 singles, you did three sets of 10, you five sets of six. How do you go about it? Everyone |
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