[ 🏃🏽♂️ ] 3 Hours/Week to Get into the Best Shape of Your Life
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
🤩 Weekly Newsletter & the Chase Club
We’re discussing what it means to get in the best shape of your life. We take a comprehensive approach to physical fitness, emphasizing the importance of strength training, cardiovascular endurance, and bodyweight exercises.
We break down a practical weekly training framework that includes three days of compound free-weight exercises, one long run, and mixed-modal conditioning.
Finally, we highlight the benefits of incorporating functional movement into your routine, such as carrying and moving heavy objects, and clarify the distinction between general fitness and elite athletic training.
00:00 Introduction and Welcome
00:43 Book Club and Membership Announcements
01:23 Defining 'Best Shape of Your Life'
03:00 Strength, Endurance, and Bodyweight Goals
09:57 Weekly Training Framework
23:49 Thanks to our Sponsors: OneSkin and DUER
30:21 Practical Questions and Time Commitment
39:31 Conclusion and Sponsors
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ABOUT THE SHOW
We answer listener questions about health, fitness, fulfillment, and what it takes to chase what truly matters. New episodes on Tuesdays & Fridays.
ABOUT US
📍 Ben Bergeron is a best-selling author, coach to 7 CrossFit Games champions, and founder of CompTrain. Find him on Instagram.
📍 Patrick Cummings is a long-time CrossFitter, writer, and podcaster. Find him on Instagram.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And the Hello and welcome back to Chasing Excellence, a show about Chasing, What Truly Matters. |
| 0:20.0 | My name is Patrick Cummings. As always, I'm here with Ben Bergeron. How are you doing? |
| 0:25.6 | Good. I'm great. It's good to see you. Good good good. Thank you everybody out there for joining us this time around. |
| 0:31.1 | We are going to talk about you. send me an email a little while ago and you said let's talk about |
| 0:35.3 | getting in the best shape of your life. |
| 0:38.1 | So that's what we're going to do. |
| 0:39.1 | We're going to talk about getting in the best shape of your life. |
| 0:41.7 | We're going to get to that in less than a minute, but I just want to let people |
| 0:44.3 | know this is probably the last time I'll mention it. You can jump into our newest, our latest book club. We are collectively |
| 0:49.9 | inside of the Chase Club, which is our premium membership. |
| 0:53.0 | We are reading and discussing the comfort crisis |
| 0:55.0 | by Michael Easter. |
| 0:56.4 | We have already started it, but it's not to let you |
| 0:58.3 | can jump in and join us as we go through that book. |
| 1:01.9 | When you're there, you'll also get add free episodes plus |
| 1:04.2 | additional free exclusive content. Chasing excellence without email is |
| 1:08.0 | where you can do that. It's also where you can get on our free newsletter list. |
| 1:11.2 | We send out an email on the weekends with a link to a form as well as some other |
| 1:14.6 | things. With that form you can submit questions that you would like us to tackle in future episodes. So again, |
| 1:20.2 | chasing excellence. email the link is in the show notes. |
| 1:23.2 | OK, let's talk about getting ridiculously fit. |
| 1:25.9 | Let's talk about getting in the best shape of your life. |
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