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🗓️ 7 March 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Friend-of-the-show EC Synkowski joins us this week to answer your questions about training for a 500lb deadlift into a sub-5:00 mile test, back injuries, and whether CrossFitters should try to work out during multi-day fasts.
EXPECT TO LEARN:
📍 EC’s woo-woo moment that helped her tackle her long-time back problems
📍 EC’s first big question to ask about fasting
📍 Ben’s prescription for a weak back
📍 What to focus on when selling transformational coaching services
📍 The core memories that got us hooked on CrossFit 10+ years ago
Thanks to our sponsors this week: LMNT | UCAN | BlueChew
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ABOUT US:
📍 Ben Bergeron is a best-selling author, coach to 7 CrossFit Games champions, and founder of CompTrain. Find him on Instagram.
📍 Patrick Cummings is a long-time CrossFitter, podcaster, and creator of Functional Branding. Find him on Instagram.
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of Chasing Excellence. My name is Patrick |
0:04.2 | Cummings and as always I'm joined by Mr. Ben Bergeron. We are also today joined by |
0:09.4 | our friend, EC Sinkowski. Every week here on the show we dedicate some time to |
0:13.4 | exploring how we can live a life of better health and increased fulfillment. We |
0:16.9 | answer your questions about the five factors of health that I've deep on living |
0:19.8 | a life of excellence and explore the strategies and frameworks to help us |
0:22.3 | chase what truly matters. Thank you so much for joining us. How are you guys? |
0:27.5 | Good. My worlds are colliding here. I'm going to try really when I close this |
0:31.7 | episode it's going to be very hard to be like folding on itself right now. When we |
0:35.6 | close this episode it's going to be very hard for me not to screw up which show I |
0:38.7 | am saying come back next week because we'll have another episode. This week we've |
0:43.1 | got questions about how to train specifically for a 500 pound deadlift into a |
0:46.3 | sub five-minute mile fasting as a cross-fitter and how to get out of an injury |
0:49.9 | rehab injury cycle. Our workout today is going to be a conversation about how to |
0:53.6 | sell substance at a time when it's so easy to sell sizzle and lastly we're |
0:58.1 | going to wrap up with a chat about core crossfit memories core memories from |
1:03.2 | CrossFit. The three of us collectively have been doing this for quite a long |
1:06.3 | time so I thought it'd be fun to go way back and talk about how and in which |
1:11.2 | ways we got kind of hooked on it. Ready? Ready? Let's do it. Normally we start |
1:18.0 | every episode with questions, listen to questions about the five factors of |
1:21.1 | health, those three fundamental behaviors that most positively affect our |
1:24.3 | performance, vitality and longevity. Usually we do one question each on how we |
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