#085: The 10 Components of Fitness
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
We’re going over the ten general physical skills that we’re trying to maximize in the gym, the sports that test them best, and whether I think practicing is more difficult than training.
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| 0:00.0 | I came in with an Iron Man triathlon background so I could swim. |
| 0:03.6 | I could swim, bike, and run for as long as you wanted me to. |
| 0:07.8 | But by foreign away, my weakness was in order power, then speed, then strength. |
| 0:15.4 | That's a good example though, because I mean in the triathlon community, it's like, |
| 0:19.0 | that's probably like your fit. |
| 0:21.6 | Right. But the way CrossFit devines fitness, it's like severely lacking. |
| 0:26.0 | It was just like, there were some, there were some holes in in there. |
| 0:28.3 | Yes. |
| 0:29.7 | We are here because we know the outcomes in our lives are within our control. |
| 0:34.1 | That taking absolute ownership of how we eat, sleep, train, think, and connect with each other |
| 0:39.3 | is how we'll optimize our health and happiness. |
| 0:42.4 | That chasing excellence is how we grab hold of what is possible. |
| 0:46.5 | Our mission is to live on the run. |
| 0:49.2 | Always chasing. |
| 0:50.5 | Never stop. |
| 0:52.6 | Welcome to another episode of Chasing Excellence. |
| 0:54.6 | Thank you so much for stopping by. |
| 0:56.3 | Beginning of this show is a little bit different because I am all by myself. |
| 1:00.5 | Ben is taking a well deserved break after the games. |
| 1:03.2 | So we wanted to bring you an episode from the CF anyway, which we've done before. |
| 1:07.0 | It's the internal podcast that we do over at the gym for the members there. |
| 1:10.0 | Occasionally, we're able to take subject matters and episodes that we do there and we're |
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