[ 🏃🏽♂️ ] A Plan to Build Future CrossFit Champions
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
👉 Weekly Newsletter & the Chase Club
We’re talking about the long-term development of future CrossFit Games champions, focusing on building versatile athletes from a young age, emphasizing the importance of exposing them to various sports such as CrossFit, gymnastics, basketball, and track and field.
We discuss mental toughness, the significance of handling adversity, and the need for mindfulness practices.
Additionally, we explore the developmental differences during different life stages and the balance required between physical prowess and mental resilience to create world-class athletes.
00:00 Introduction and Welcome
02:46 Building a Future CrossFit Champion
04:36 Developing Versatile Athletes
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18:05 Mental Toughness and Adversity
26:06 Advice for Aspiring Athletes
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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. |
| 0:21.1 | My name is Patrick Cummings. Thank you so very much for joining us this week. |
| 0:25.4 | This week, Cross Fit Games Week, at least if you are listening to this in the week that we put it up. |
| 0:31.8 | And if it's after that, weren't the Cross Fit Games |
| 0:35.0 | wonderful this year? |
| 0:36.4 | I thought we do something fun for the week of the Cross Fit Games. |
| 0:40.7 | We don't talk about the sport of Cross Fit too much anymore |
| 0:45.7 | primarily because as you probably know Ben stopped coaching |
| 0:50.2 | and training Cross Fit Games athletes |
| 0:52.3 | maybe a year ago, maybe a little bit more than a year ago now. |
| 0:55.2 | So that part of his life part of our conversation has ceased but that does not mean we never talked |
| 1:01.2 | about it in fact in the early days of chasing excellence we talked |
| 1:03.7 | about it quite a bit and so this week I thought it would be fun to go back into the |
| 1:09.2 | archives and pick out the two most resonant episodes that I can think of that I remember doing in the earlier days of chasing excellence and bring them back to the forefront. |
| 1:22.0 | This first one, this time around, |
| 1:24.1 | is going to be a conversation that I kid you not |
| 1:26.2 | was the fifth episode we ever did. |
| 1:28.2 | But you know what? |
| 1:29.1 | It's actually pretty darn good. |
| 1:30.3 | So good on us, younger Ben and younger Patrick. we did a pretty good job this was |
| 1:34.8 | episode five in the episode I give him I give Ben a bit of a thought |
| 1:39.5 | experiment we think about we talk about what he would do with an athlete who wanted to be a |
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