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Chasing Excellence

Benchmark: 10 Principles of Training

Chasing Excellence

Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings

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

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

We’re revisiting an episode from the archives this week, reminding ourselves of our 10 principles of training. We’re talking about starting with mechanics, understanding relative intensity, weaknesses, thresholds, and more.

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👉🏼 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.


Transcript

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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.

0:22.9

Our mission is to live on the run.

0:25.7

Always chasing.

0:26.7

Never stop.

0:27.7

Hello, hello, welcome back to another episode of chasing excellence Patrick here with a

0:34.4

quick introduction to this week's show.

0:38.0

As we do occasionally, I like to go back through the archives of the show since we've been doing

0:43.6

this for 113 years at this point.

0:48.1

And resurface some of the keystone episodes, some of the big, important episodes that

0:53.4

have influenced almost everything that came after it.

0:56.8

And so we're in the midst of revisiting our series of episodes on the five factors

1:02.4

of health.

1:03.4

The last time we did this, we reshared the 10 principles of nutrition this time around.

1:09.3

We are going to revisit the 10 principles of training.

1:14.0

We're talking about why it's important to work out five to six times a week while we

1:18.9

want to live in couplets and triplets, while we want to commit to constant variance

1:23.9

and a handful of other principles.

1:27.4

All of these episodes, all episodes from the five factors on again, nutrition, mindset,

1:33.9

mindset, connection, sleep are all available in the archives.

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