#042: Desert Island Health
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2018
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In this episode: We're imposing some imaginary constraints to explore some of my health & fitness principles. Topics include which CrossFit benchmarks workouts I'd pick to repeat forever if I had to, what single meal I would eat if I had to only eat one meal for the rest of my life, & what single movement I'd choose if I could only do one. Show Notes: 01:30 - My pick for what movement in the gym I would pick if I could only do one for the rest of my life 08:00 - If I could only do 3 CrossFit benchmarks workouts, on repeat, for the rest of my life, these are the 3 I'd choose. 15:49 - My answer to which would be worse to endure: Sleeping only 4 hours a nice, every night; eating only food at the local house of pizza; or only working out twice a week. 19:00 - Some of my go-to workouts when I don't have any equipment to use 22:20 - The single meal I would eat every day, for every meal, if I had to limit myself to it. 28:00 - The people I would gather around a table to learn from, if I could pick from anybody past or present. // Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: http://apple.co/2lCdeWb Subscribe on Google Play: https://goo.gl/VPYj3G Grab the book: http://amzn.to/2vSjU4q Chasing Excellence is a show dedicated to dissecting what it means to live a life of excellence, both inside the gym & out. On each episode, we'll deep dive on various aspects of running a CrossFit affiliate, becoming a better coach or athlete, & maximizing your potential. Web: http://www.benbergeron.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benbergeron/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/coachbenbergeron/
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| 0:00.0 | Which would be worse for you to endure? |
| 0:02.5 | Number one, sleep only four hours a night every night. |
| 0:06.0 | Number two, work out only two times a week. |
| 0:09.4 | Or number three, only eat food available at the local house of pizza. |
| 0:14.0 | So which of those three would be worse for you? |
| 0:17.8 | So you could, if you could pick one, |
| 0:20.1 | definitely not to do what would it be? |
| 0:21.6 | Which one would it be? |
| 0:23.4 | We live in the, you know, if you go to the doctor and you're unhealthy, |
| 0:28.2 | they say eat right and exercise more. |
| 0:31.5 | So at first blush coming from an exercise and a fitness and health guide, |
| 0:35.2 | it seems like it'd be, |
| 0:37.3 | avoid the house of pizza or I'm working out more than twice a week. |
| 0:40.6 | But I would actually choose the sleeping four hours. |
| 0:43.7 | But what confidence is, has nothing to do with winning or the leaderboard. |
| 0:48.9 | What confidence is, is knowing that you giving your best efforts is enough. |
| 0:59.2 | Today we are going to, we had an idea a few weeks ago to sort of do like a desert island. |
| 1:06.1 | If you only had this, if you were stuck on an island, you can only do this. |
| 1:10.5 | So we came up with it or I came up with a handful of questions that are sort of in that. |
| 1:14.7 | And if your house was burning down, you could only grab three things or three things. |
| 1:18.1 | Exactly. But for fitness. |
| 1:19.8 | But for fitness, fitness and health. |
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