#033: Assessing Health by Measuring Fitness
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2018
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Talking about going to the doctor, why how many burpees you can do in a minute is an indication of more than just your fitness, & the difference between being a swim coach & a lifeguard.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Doctors do amazing work. |
| 0:03.3 | Doctors save lives, literally, right? |
| 0:07.2 | And if you're drowning at sea, don't send me a swim coach. |
| 0:12.7 | I don't need to know how to do the crawl more efficiently. |
| 0:14.9 | I need someone that's going to rescue me. |
| 0:17.5 | I need a life coach. |
| 0:18.5 | It's similar, like if you get a car accident, |
| 0:20.8 | don't send me to a CrossFit gym, right? |
| 0:23.2 | If you get a stage 4 cancer, |
| 0:25.2 | don't send me to a CrossFit gym. |
| 0:27.0 | But the preventative actions, learning to swim, |
| 0:31.6 | don't, I don't want a lifeguard. |
| 0:33.1 | They're not there. |
| 0:33.9 | I want a swim coach teaching me how to swim. |
| 0:36.6 | It's the same thing in this world. |
| 0:38.3 | If you want to learn to live a better healthier life, |
| 0:41.7 | that's not the doctor's jobs. |
| 0:43.3 | Doctors aren't schooled in that. |
| 0:45.0 | Doctors know how to fix problems, |
| 0:47.7 | either acutely, like surgery, |
| 0:51.3 | or over time with medication. |
| 0:54.3 | And now we're starting to turn the page |
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