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Chasing Excellence

Calling Yourself Out When Things Aren’t Working, w/ EC Synkowski

Chasing Excellence

Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings

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

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

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

GET A QUESTION IN THE QUEUE: 

Send Patrick a DM with your Five Factors questions! 

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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