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Chasing Excellence

2021 CrossFit Games Debrief

Chasing Excellence

Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings

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

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

We're talking through my experience at the 2021 CrossFit Games - from NoBULL's first year as the sponsor, to my thoughts on the programming, CompTrain's overall performance, and the young guns making a run for the podium.

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👉🏼 Ben Bergeron is a best-selling author, coach to 7 CrossFit Games champions, and founder of CompTrain.

👉🏼 Patrick Cummings is a long-time CrossFitter, podcaster, and creator of Functional Branding.

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0:00.0

When are we going to stop seeing the kind of exponential growth in terms of what we've

0:04.4

were accomplishing on the human performance side from, you know, you look back at Andy Thore's

0:09.5

daughter and there's a lot of footage of this like her at the 2009 games, you know, she's this

0:13.6

rail skinny little thing trying to get her first muscle up and cleaning her snatch was 105 pounds

0:23.2

to where she is now, you know, snatching 200 pounds, you know, in the middle of this 15 test

0:29.2

events, you know, and massively fatigued. I think we're still in the midst of the hockey stick

0:36.8

growth in terms of human potential where year over year these athletes are going to get massively,

0:43.9

massively better. So I think that we have until these young kids that are starting the sport and we

0:51.8

have people that enter the sport with 10 years of experience. Once they kind of make their

0:59.0

path through, so maybe it's two decades away, but I think that once we have, you know, I think

1:03.4

we're just entering into this with the Malo Brian's and, you know, Emma Carries and once these athletes

1:08.8

that have been doing this as a teenage years, you know, Guy, you know, Mount Heloros who won the

1:15.1

snatch, these are the teenage athletes that are finally entering the sport. Once these guys have

1:19.6

their 10-year careers and the new athletes come in behind them, I think that's where it'll start to

1:24.2

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

1:30.6

That taking absolute ownership of how we eat, sleep, train, think, and connect with each other

1:35.8

is how we'll optimize our health and happiness. That chasing excellence is how we grab hold

1:41.5

of what is possible. Our mission is to live on the run. Always chasing. Never stop.

1:48.2

Hello and welcome back to another episode of Chasing Excellence. How are you been?

1:54.8

I'm doing great. Thanks Patrick. I'm excited every year. At least I think we've done this every year

2:01.2

that we've had this podcast. We kind of the first time you and I get back together after the games,

2:05.7

we use it as an excuse really for me to just bug you with questions about your thoughts and your

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