Hello and welcome back to another episode of Chasing Excellence. My name is Patrick

Cummings every week here on the show. Ben and I dedicate some time to exploring how we

can live a life of better health and increased fulfillment. We answer your questions about

the five factors of health that I've deep on living a life of excellence and explore

the strategies and frameworks to help us chase what truly matters. Thank you so much for

tuning into the show this week. We are bringing you our final benchmark episode of the summer.

For those folks who are just tuning in perhaps maybe for the first time, but maybe they're

just checking back in. We have been Ben and I have been taking a wee bit of a breather this

summer and we've been bringing out some of the archives, some of the episodes in the archives.

I should say some of the seminal episodes, some of the seminal ideas that Ben and I have

talked about over the last five or six years, those ideas that we feel like people still

respond to, people still send us notes about and those conversations that we are still in some way

referencing back to or evolving as we go. We are as of this episode a few weeks post the 2023

CrossFit Games and I am still in the mood to think about the CrossFit Games. Maybe you

are too. So that's why I thought I would go back into the archives and find an episode

that folks responded well to. That was about or inside the world of the CrossFit Games

of competitive CrossFit. It's not a subject we hit on too much anymore, certainly not in the last

year or so, but we in the early days of chasing excellence did talk about it quite a bit and that

era is when this episode is from it is from August of 2018 all about how to become

more competitive in the sport of CrossFit. We're talking about muscle ups, double

unders, Ben's advice for athletes who don't have a coach, nutrition, lots of cool stuff

that we hit on here. So again, if you are having a slight CrossFit Games hangover as I am,

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