#068: The Changing Landscape of CrossFit
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
We’re diving into all the changes at CrossFit, why the Sanctionals are better tests than Regionals, and how re-learning what it takes to get to the Games now.
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| 0:00.0 | To me, we had such a system in place. |
| 0:02.0 | We figured as much as we figured anything out, |
| 0:04.5 | and no one's figured this out, |
| 0:05.6 | but we had an idea of how to train and prep |
| 0:07.4 | for the CrossFit games through the CrossFit season. |
| 0:09.6 | We knew how fit we should be in what we should be doing |
| 0:12.2 | in September. |
| 0:13.1 | We knew how fit we should be in what we should be focusing |
| 0:15.4 | on in January. |
| 0:16.5 | We knew when our recovery weeks were, |
| 0:18.0 | when our taper weeks were, |
| 0:18.8 | we knew how to do this. |
| 0:22.4 | This season, I mean, just basically pulled the, |
| 0:25.4 | you know, the rug out from underneath is completely. |
| 0:27.6 | We had no idea. |
| 0:28.4 | We went in January. |
| 0:29.8 | We went to our regional event, |
| 0:31.1 | which we qualified for the CrossFit games in January. |
| 0:34.9 | We are here because we know the outcomes |
| 0:36.7 | in our lives are within our control. |
| 0:39.3 | That taking absolute ownership of how we eat, |
| 0:41.7 | sleep, train, think, and connect with each other |
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