#062: Two Minute Drill, #4
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
We're tackling some of your questions, covering topics from mobility, to what I think about people who train to the point of sickness, to whether bodybuilding has a role inside of CrossFit training.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Remember, CrossFit works because it's constantly varied functional moments performed at relatively |
| 0:06.2 | high intensity. |
| 0:09.2 | What's been mistaken from day one of CrossFit is people hear that as a constant, very |
| 0:15.8 | functional movements performed at maximal intensity. |
| 0:19.4 | It is not maximal intensity. |
| 0:22.3 | So it's not as hard as you possibly can't go. |
| 0:26.6 | It's not the way we train. |
| 0:28.7 | That's not the way you get fitter and better. |
| 0:30.7 | The way you get fitter and better is by trying to get relatively relative to your physical |
| 0:36.3 | and psychological tolerances. |
| 0:38.4 | So if you're throwing up, you've exceeded that. |
| 0:41.0 | If you're crying afterwards, if you don't want to go back, you've exceeded that. |
| 0:44.9 | If you're sore for seven days, you've exceeded that. |
| 0:48.5 | So it's at high intensity. |
| 0:50.9 | That's what gives us the potion. |
| 0:52.9 | That's what gives us the potency. |
| 0:54.4 | That's what gives us this amazing result from our training plan. |
| 0:58.6 | We are here because we know the outcomes in our lives are within our control. |
| 1:03.0 | That taking absolute ownership of how we eat, sleep, train, think and connect with each other |
| 1:08.1 | is how we'll optimize our health and happiness. |
| 1:11.3 | That chasing excellence is how we grab hold of what is possible. |
| 1:15.5 | Our mission is to live on the wrong. |
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