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Chasing Excellence

[ πŸ›Œ ] 4 Principles for Maximizing Recovery & Performance

Chasing Excellence

Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings

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

4.8 β€’ 2.2K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

We’re getting into the crucial topic of recovery and discussing four common ways people tend to undermine their own recovery process.

We explore the importance of understanding why recovery is necessary, the different types of stress and stimuli that training places on the body, and how the time needed for recovery can be flexible based on our proactive approach. Lastly, we emphasize the interdependence of all five factors - training, nutrition, sleep, mindset, and relationships - in optimizing recovery and ultimately improving performance.

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We answer listener questions about health, fitness, fulfillment, and what it takes to chase what truly matters. New episodes on Monday & Friday.

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πŸ“ 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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My name is Patrick Cummings as always I am here with Ben Bergeron. Hello, sir.

0:56.4

We have this week, we're going to dive into one of our factors. We're going to talk about recovery.

1:00.6

Specifically, we're going to talk about four of the ways that we screw up our recovery.

1:04.4

We're going to talk about kind of training recovery, how can we maximize our recovery so that we can

1:08.8

maximize our performance. We've got four ways that you've seen folks do this. We're going to jump right in to the first one.

1:17.0

Not understanding why recovery is even needed.

1:21.0

Yeah, so you see this all the time and people, it's really rapid in our space too where people, our

1:27.0

sports, our activity is training, you know, we're the gym monkeys, we're the people that are addicted to the exercise thing.

1:34.0

And it's just, it's really, what we're actually here for, we should be here for is adaptation

1:41.0

and gains.

1:42.0

We should be here because we want to become stronger, better,

1:45.1

fitter, faster versions of ourselves. What ends up happening is we get a little bit addicted

1:50.1

to the feel-goods of the exercise mmm and we forget the reason that we're here if we understood

1:58.3

the purpose of recovery I don't think that that would be as big of an issue.

2:05.0

There is essentially a stress recovery adaptation cycle that takes place. So in training you put your body through stress,

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