#082: How to Start CrossFit By Yourself
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
We’re discussing how I would advise different kinds of people who want to start CrossFit but who are unable or unwilling to go to an affiliate.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I know John Wellborn's taught the story. |
| 0:02.0 | He's the former NFL football player, CrossFit football. |
| 0:05.8 | He's told the story that like when he found CrossFit |
| 0:09.6 | and kind of got into it and realized how much fitness he got, |
| 0:11.6 | when he went back to train with, |
| 0:13.1 | I think it was with the Kennedy Chiefs at the time. |
| 0:15.1 | When he was with the Chiefs, |
| 0:16.1 | they would give him his strength program |
| 0:17.8 | and he would be like, I wanna do this in the CrossFit variation, |
| 0:22.3 | you know what coach would be like, no, |
| 0:23.4 | you have to check every box, so he did every box for time. |
| 0:28.1 | So he would go through his deadlifts, his squats, |
| 0:31.8 | his cleans and his presses as fast as he possibly could |
| 0:34.3 | and he turned the card back in like 22 minutes later, |
| 0:36.7 | drenched in sweat and be like, done. |
| 0:38.9 | And be like, that's essentially what you're doing. |
| 0:41.4 | Just kind of put all those things together |
| 0:42.8 | and put a different level of cardiovascular response to it. |
| 0:48.5 | We are here because we know the outcomes in our lives |
| 0:51.1 | are within our control. |
| 0:53.0 | That taking absolute ownership of how we eat, |
| 0:55.4 | sleep, train, think and connect with each other |
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