#030: Two Minute Drill, Take 1
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In this episode: Answering some listener questions, including the how to balance intensity & volume in training, what I'm working to improve these days, & my recommendations for athletes coming back from injury.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Go on your phone and go to settings click on battery |
| 0:04.8 | Scroll down and then next to |
| 0:07.8 | This all these different apps at the bottom. You'll see a thing that this little clock icon and click on the clock icon |
| 0:13.9 | And then click on that last seven days some phones say last four days |
| 0:17.8 | So settings battery clock icon last seven days and what you'll see is how much time you've spent on your phone and |
| 0:25.5 | It's horrific. It's a horrifying practice to try to go through. Yeah, I can concur. Yeah |
| 0:33.0 | So I'm a person that prides myself on never being on their phone and I had like two hours on Instagram like |
| 0:39.9 | Like what that's two hours I could have done like so many other things |
| 0:45.2 | What confidence has nothing to do with winning or the leaderboard what confidence is is knowing that you |
| 0:52.5 | Giving your best efforts is enough |
| 0:59.8 | Hello Ben Patrick welcome back to your office. Thanks, buddy. Yeah |
| 1:04.7 | Today we're gonna do something that we just named the two-minute drill so |
| 1:09.9 | Oftentimes, you know, we've done I think this is episode 30 oftentimes people ask questions |
| 1:15.3 | Yeah, the last questions on YouTube Facebook Instagram whatever and the questions aren't always enough |
| 1:20.5 | I think to fill out an entire episode, but they're good questions on the last |
| 1:23.7 | So I've sort of collected a handful of questions from different people |
| 1:27.5 | And we thought we'd put a clock on you and you have to answer these questions within two minutes |
| 1:32.2 | Love it. We literally named two-minute drill less than two minutes ago. Yes |
| 1:36.3 | Yes, that's how much planning goes into these real time. Okay, so and most of these are not most room |
| 1:42.4 | I'd say half of them are sort of training related and half of them are more like life cool regular tracing. So let's hear with it |
| 1:47.8 | Okay, so the first one |
| 1:50.5 | How what do you think about the value or not value of heart rate monitoring during training? Okay in under two minutes |
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