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Chasing Excellence

3 Distractions Keeping You From Health (The Supplement Trap, Your Social Circle, & The Perfect Plan)

Chasing Excellence

Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings

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

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

The 3 Big Questions We're Answering: 

1. What are the common distractions that keep us from achieving our health goals, and how can we effectively identify and overcome them? 

2. How do our social circles and environments influence our health behaviors, and what strategies can we implement to create a supportive network? 

3. In what ways can we shift our focus from perfectionism and obsession with outcomes to a more balanced and sustainable approach to health and well-being? 

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📍 Ben Bergeron is a best-selling author, coach to 7 CrossFit Games champions, and founder of CompTrain. Find him on Instagram. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

We believe health is the foundation that unlocks freedom.

0:07.1

The freedom to live fully, to be an asset and not a burden, and to chase what truly matters.

0:13.4

Through daily practices and proven frameworks, we are here to help you build deep health,

0:19.2

find lasting peace, and live with your heart on fire.

0:24.3

Welcome to the chase.

0:27.0

Welcome back to the show.

0:28.9

Thank you so much for joining us.

0:30.8

How are you been?

0:32.1

Doing great.

0:32.7

Thanks.

0:33.2

How you don't you guys?

0:33.6

It's a beautiful day and you're wearing a sweatshirt.

0:35.1

It's making me feel a little bit warmer than it should. Well, it's a beautiful day, but I haven't been outside yet today. But I started saying you're going to do Sunday run day with the gym? Yeah, we already did it. We started it.

0:55.5

Amazing. Tell me about it. That's such a cool idea.

0:57.8

Yeah. So we had, um, 20, uh, I don't know, 23 people show up for the first one.

1:04.9

We're doing at 7 a.m. on Sunday mornings. I think it's a really good showing because it was Mother's Day for the first we did too. But yeah, Sunday run day. It's a thing. It's such a good idea to have everybody come

1:14.5

and do it together because it's one of those things. You know, we can say until we're blue in the face,

1:18.0

like you've got to, you know, you've got to get out there. You've got to run, you know'll raise my hand, even though I went for a run this morning. Like, I don't love running and I don't love particularly running by myself.

1:29.6

And so just the idea of like, oh, I'll go and all my friends from the gym will be there.

1:32.9

I'll get it done, seven o'clock on a Sunday.

1:34.6

Get it done, check that off.

1:35.9

It's a really good way to get people to eat their vegetables.

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