Hello and welcome to another episode of Chasing Excellence. My name is Pat Cummings and

it has always joined by Ben Bergeron every week on the show. We 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 have 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 joining us how the heck have you been.

I really like the intro to our show. You can have it. I really like it. It's

it says what it's supposed to say. All right, we're going to jump right into it this week. We've

got listener questions about aerobic capacity weighing pros and cons of big decisions, rebuilding

a relationship with a significant other and more our workout is going to be a conversation about

how to embrace good adversity while minimizing bad adversity, especially when it comes to our kids.

And lastly, we'll wrap up with a recommendation roundup of the books, movies, podcasts and

activities we've been enjoying lately. I'm going to dive right into our warm up and start each

episode with your questions about the five factors of health. Those few fundamental behaviors,

the most positively affect our performance, vitality and longevity. Those five factors, how we

eat, how we move, how we think, how we connect and how we recover when you're right into the first

one from Eli in our move category. He says, I think it's a he a question that I'd love to learn

more about is the fundamentals of aerobic capacity. I often feel confused on how to add cardio sessions

into my crossfit workouts. They'll help me build that specific specific threshold. In some ways,

it seems as easy as doing aerobic interval training, but my interest lies in learning more about the

basic more about the basic fundamentals of what aerobic capacity is, how you can determine your

own and the basics of improving it. Okay, so to keep this fairly simple, which doesn't sound

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