Ask Yourself These 6 Big Questions
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
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.
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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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