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Chasing Excellence

#124: Staying Competitive Despite the Lockdowns

Chasing Excellence

Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings

Self-improvement, Crossfit, Holistic Health, Mindset, Selfimprovement, Education, Wellness, Health & Fitness, Goalsetting, Health, Attainability, Fitness

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Talking this week about how we're thinking about and planning for the 2020 CrossFit Games, my advice to athletes looking to continue making progress during the lockdowns, and why programming for yourself is a bad idea.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Adapt and overcome like get over it like embrace the harsh reality. It's gone

0:06.0

You're not going to the gym stop the woe is me stop feeling sorry for yourself

0:11.5

Adapt and overcome it's what every single elite athlete has had to do at some point in their career

0:17.5

You are not special because your routine doesn't get to exist anymore

0:22.1

This is everyone is in the same boat and even if they weren't if it was just you

0:27.2

It's your turn to adapt and overcome never allow yourself in a moment

0:33.5

To think woe is me to think like oh, I don't have my routine. Oh, I can't do this like just get over it and do what you can with what you got for where you are right now

0:44.3

We are here because we know the outcomes in our lives are within our control

0:48.8

That taking absolute ownership of how we eat sleep trained think and connect with each other is how we'll optimize our health and

0:56.0

Happiness that chasing excellence is how we grab hold of what is possible?

1:01.1

Our mission is to live on the road always chasing

1:05.4

Never stop hello and welcome back to another remote addition of chasing excellence. How are you been?

1:12.0

I'm good Patrick. Thanks

1:14.0

Today we are going to talk about the athletic side the competitive side of

1:19.9

Of or rather the the

1:22.5

How everything that's going on is affecting the competitive side and the athletic side that you spend so much time working with

1:29.4

We've talked about a little bit in a two-minute drill

1:31.5

You know, we've somebody asked about your thoughts on whether there should be a cross-fit games and then maybe what that looks like and so

1:39.4

That now we're standing like I don't think we have to get into that kind of guessing game of that

1:42.8

But I'm really curious about guessing game is so fun though. I know it is but

1:47.6

I'm really curious about how you the team are comp trained at your athletes

1:53.3

Are one just kind of like thinking about everything that's going on responding to all of the unknowns and all the uncertainty and then kind of maybe segue into like

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