Calling Yourself Out When Things Aren’t Working

Chasing Excellence

Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings

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

4.8 • 2.2K 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.

Transcript

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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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