Anonymous Leaderboards (2:00 Drill #33)
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Your questions are back this week! We’re talking about goals versus purpose, whether anonymous leaderboards might work, how to think about Fran, buying a gym, and more.
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Questions Answered:
02:50 - Working with a challenging employee 06:30 - Focusing on goals or purpose 08:45 - Earning trust with co-worker 11:15 - Taking vitamins & supplements (or not) 12:30 - Training when not sleeping enough 17:20 - Doing Fran for fitness or as a test 21:10 - Getting better at burpees 25:30 - Making leaderboards anonymous 29:50 - Buying a gym 36:00 - Making a Peloton-like version of CrossFit
About Us:
👉🏼 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 | We are here because we know the outcomes in our lives are within our control. |
| 0:10.4 | That taking absolute ownership of how we eat, sleep, train, think and connect with each |
| 0:14.9 | other is how we'll optimize our health and happiness. |
| 0:18.7 | That chasing excellence is how we grab hold of what is possible. |
| 0:22.8 | Our mission is to live on the wrong. |
| 0:25.6 | Always chasing. |
| 0:26.8 | Never stop. |
| 0:28.3 | Hello and welcome back to another episode of chasing excellence. |
| 0:33.3 | How are you Ben doing terrific. |
| 0:35.7 | Thank you, Patrick. |
| 0:36.7 | How are you doing? |
| 0:37.7 | I'm great. |
| 0:38.7 | Thank you. |
| 0:39.7 | We have a, and this one we're recording this, it is a beautiful March day after a snowstorm. |
| 0:43.7 | It was very strange weather we've had here, but it's a beautiful day here, so it's |
| 0:46.2 | hard not to be happy. |
| 0:47.7 | New England, man. |
| 0:48.7 | Yeah, seriously. |
| 0:49.7 | It's like 50 degrees the next. |
| 0:51.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:52.9 | Although it's not necessarily New England because Heather's going to Nashville and Nashville |
| 0:56.4 | tomorrow is like 60 and the next day is a low of 20. |
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