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Chasing Excellence

Benchmark: Simplifying Nutrition

Chasing Excellence

Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings

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

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

We're revisiting one of our most popular conversations from the early days of the podcast, talking about why I prefer to keep my nutritional advice simple, the value of getting blood work done, & why both quality & quantity matter.

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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.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, hello, you chasers of excellence.

0:04.0

Patrick here with a very quick introduction to this week's episode.

0:08.1

We did this a month or two ago, a month or so, two.

0:11.8

We did this a month or two ago, something we're calling a benchmark, which is when we go

0:16.2

back through the archives to the early episodes of Chasing Excellence to find some of the

0:20.3

Keystone episodes, the Keystone ideas that I feel like we're still building off of, that

0:26.4

we're still talking about, we're still examining and exploring.

0:30.9

I wanted to go back this week to May 3rd, 2017 to the 14th episode that Ben and I did.

0:37.9

It's the first time we talked about nutrition, an episode called Simplifying Nutrition.

0:43.6

I thought that would be fun.

0:44.9

Thank you to everybody out there who may have heard this the first time through, though

0:47.9

I know a lot of folks found us after 2017.

0:50.8

Perhaps this is the first time you've heard this.

0:53.4

I hope you enjoy it.

0:54.4

I hope it is helpful.

0:56.1

We are going to start with the old school introduction, which is fun to listen to.

1:01.2

And Ben and I will be back next week with a brand new episode of Chasing Excellence

1:06.6

until then.

1:08.4

Keep going.

1:09.4

What confidence is, has nothing to do with winning or the leaderboard.

1:14.5

What confidence is, is knowing that you giving your best efforts is enough.

1:22.4

All right, Ben, today we're going to talk about something that a lot of people like to

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