Assessing Each of the 10 Components of Fitness
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
We've talked before about paying attention to all ten of the components of fitness. Today, we're looking at how I might measure and assess each one in an attempt to understand where an athlete's weakest link might lie.
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| 0:00.0 | these tank components. So think about like what sports, I'll ask you this Patrick, what sports |
| 0:07.0 | encompass the 10 components of fitness? Well, so we talked about the beginning, most people go |
| 0:12.3 | like super fit marathon runners or weight lifters. When you go through this exercise, you go like |
| 0:16.7 | holy crap. Those guys aren't fit at all. Because marathon runner, and this is true, the marathon |
| 0:22.5 | runner can run the best endurance in the world. That's what he's supposed to do is where you make |
| 0:26.9 | his living. But those guys can't bench press a 95 pound barbell. This is true, the majority of them. |
| 0:35.2 | And this is a strange one. Can't even jump arm and 18 inch box. So how fit are they really? |
| 0:43.4 | So what sports do encompass all 10 very well? We are here because we know the outcomes in our lives |
| 0:51.6 | are within our control. That taking absolute ownership of how we eat, sleep, train, think, |
| 0:57.3 | and connect with each other is how we'll optimize our health and happiness. That chasing excellence |
| 1:03.0 | is how we grab hold of what is possible. Our mission is to live on the run. Always chasing. Never stop. |
| 1:12.0 | Hello and welcome back to another episode of chasing excellence. How you doing, Ben? |
| 1:16.9 | Good. Good. Today we're going to take a listener question that I thought folks often reach out with |
| 1:27.2 | two minute drill questions that occasionally I will, even if they're not conducive to a two minute |
| 1:31.6 | drill, I will still make you answer in two minutes. But occasionally I'll pull them aside and we'll |
| 1:37.2 | try to have a full conversation on them. And that's what this one is. And roughly speaking, the |
| 1:41.7 | question was about, you know, we have and we've talked about the 10 components of fitness before. |
| 1:47.1 | And we'll break, well, we'll list what those are just for folks who either can't remember them or |
| 1:51.5 | don't know what they are. And the question was about how can we assess each one of these or how |
| 1:58.0 | can we assess ourselves at each one of these components? Right? How can I, how do I know if my |
| 2:04.6 | balance is good or how do I know if my strength is good? So is there a movement or is there maybe a |
| 2:09.3 | workout that we can do really for the sole purpose of saying, okay, well, where am I in this, in |
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