Ask Yourself These 6 Big Questions

Chasing Excellence

Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings

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

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

How do you define success? What impact do you want to have? What problem are you trying to solve? Just a few of the big questions we’re talking about and through this week. We’re also cooking up a new monthly challenge, so stay tuned til the end!

EXPECT TO LEARN:

📍 What “overload” looks like in the gym, and when you should use it

📍 What to consider if you’re not losing the weight you think you should be

📍 The first big goal in getting back from an injury

📍 Why we can always have more compassion and empathy

📍 How to get the universe to nudge you in the right direction

Thanks to our sponsors this week: BetterHelp | Miracle Made | BlueChew

GET A QUESTION IN THE QUEUE:

Send Patrick a DM with your Five Factors questions!

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, podcaster, and creator of Functional Branding. Find him on Instagram.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Chasing Excellence. My name is Patrick Cummings and as
0:05.2	always I am joined by Ben Bergeron every week here on the show we dedicate some time to exploring
0:10.4	how we can live a life of better health and increased fulfillment. We answer your questions about
0:15.3	the five factors of health that have deep on living a life of excellence and explore the strategies
0:19.7	and frameworks to help us chase what truly matters. Thank you so much for tuning into the show.
0:25.0	How are you Ben? Phenomenal. Fantastic. We have a wonderful show as we always do here.
0:33.3	Full of good questions from listeners. We're going to jump right into your Silma pen right out
0:38.3	the bat, huh? I already have thought. We're going to jump right into our warm-up, which is how we
0:44.9	start each episode. We do it with your questions about the five factors of health. Those few fundamental
0:48.8	behaviors that most positively affect your performance, vitality and longevity. Those five factors
0:54.0	are how we eat, how we move, how we think, we connect and how we recover. Let us as we always do jump
1:00.2	into the move category and this question is from Anastasia, how do you overcome weight lifting fear?
1:06.3	I've been doing CrossFit for three years. I got to an intermediate weights and I'm stuck because
1:10.4	I'm scared. We did an eight week lifting cycle and at the end of the last two cycles I did not
1:15.4	get a PR. Now we are doing our snatch cycle and I love snatching as I have great mobility but I couldn't
1:21.3	live more than 95% because I am scared. I just want to get a PB so badly that I pressure myself on
1:27.1	how important it is for me and then I get scared that I can't get under the bar and my previous
1:33.6	failed cycles are messing with my mindset. I've never felt this before. I usually just go for it
1:38.3	until I fail a few times and then I know I can't lift it. Yeah. A really concrete actionable answer
1:45.8	here. Stolen from Chinese weight lifting methodology which is overloading. Let's take the example of
2:00.6	a squat. Just to use that I don't come back to the snatch. Well, if the most, if you can squat 400
2:10.4	pounds and you're trying to squat 405, well that first attempt at 405 also coincides with the most
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