#070: Top Trends Inside the CrossFit Community
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
We’re exploring some of the common trends we’ve seen come and (sometimes) go within CrossFit over the years, including the Zone Diet, post-workout chocolate milk, and subscriptions to mobility programming.
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| 0:00.0 | I believe that by definition CrossFit can not be a fad or a trend. |
| 0:05.0 | Because what our program is, it's stealing the best practices from everybody else. |
| 0:13.0 | And if it works, we're going to use it. And if it doesn't, we're chucking it. |
| 0:18.0 | If it increases fitness, we're capacity across broad time, all domains, it's a part of our program. |
| 0:23.0 | And we will test it out. And if it doesn't work, it's gone. |
| 0:26.0 | We are here because we know the outcomes in our lives are within our control. |
| 0:31.0 | That taking absolute ownership of how we eat, sleep, train, think, and connect with each other |
| 0:36.0 | is how we'll optimize our health and happiness. |
| 0:39.0 | That chasing excellence is how we grab hold of what is possible. |
| 0:43.0 | Our mission is to live on the run. Always chasing. Never stop. |
| 0:49.0 | Okay, greetings. How are you? Hi, Patrick. |
| 0:52.0 | I'm good. Good. |
| 0:54.0 | Today we're going to do something. We're going to do something that was somebody else's idea. |
| 1:00.0 | Somebody DMed me this idea on Instagram. And I was like, that's an excellent idea. |
| 1:04.0 | So thank you to, I think her name is Haley. I should have looked that up before. |
| 1:07.0 | Thank you to her. Love this. |
| 1:09.0 | So what we're going to do is sort of a take off of the two-minute drill, |
| 1:12.0 | which is when I usually just present you a bunch of random questions |
| 1:15.0 | and you are forced to answer them within two minutes. |
| 1:18.0 | So we're going to sort of, that's going to be the spirit of this episode. |
| 1:21.0 | Got it. |
| 1:22.0 | But the aim is going to be different because what we're going to talk about are a series of, |
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