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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

🗓️ 4 July 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

What do we do when we find ourselves working a job with people who don’t align with the healthy, meaningful life we want to lead? That’s the listener question we’re answering this week, talking about how to measure the strength of our relationships, why it’s so hard to prioritize, the importance of balance, and more.

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EXPECT TO LEARN
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📍 If focusing on fitness now (eventually) leads to health issues later in life
📍 The difference between the coach and the critic in our minds
📍 How to deal with folks who have strong opinions about health that you disagree with
📍 How few men claim to have close friendships (and why that is)
📍 A couple books and movies we’ve been enjoying lately

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OUR SPONSORS:
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🔗 Timeline Nutrition

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GET A QUESTION IN THE QUEUE:
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🔗 Send Patrick a DM with your Five Factors questions!

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ABOUT US:
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📍 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 and podcaster. 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 Cummings
0:10.2	and as always I am here with Ben Bergeron every week on the show. We dedicate some time
0:14.9	to exploring how we can live a life with better health and increased fulfillment. We answer
0:18.8	your questions about the five factors of health that have deep, unliving a life of excellence
0:22.8	and explore the strategies and frameworks to help us chase what truly matters. Thank you
0:26.8	so much as always for joining us this week. How are you Ben? Good. We, what do we got this week?
0:33.6	We've got listener questions about trying to make thruster games while also trying to kick
0:37.2	asked into our 90s mindfulness in the middle of a Metcon cheat meals and more. Our workout this
0:42.8	week is going to be a question about building connection and fighting loneliness as we get older
0:47.6	and we're going to wrap this up with another round of our recommendation round up where we just
0:53.0	give some recommendations on books, movies, podcasts, whatever else we are enjoying. Ready?
0:59.8	Let's roll. Our warm up we start each workout. We do start each workout with a warm up. We start each
1:05.4	episode with questions about the five factors of health. Those few fundamental behaviors that
1:08.8	most positively affect our performance, vitality and longevity. Those five factors are how we eat,
1:13.6	how we move, how we think, how we connect and how we recover. This first question is in our
1:18.4	move category. It's from Robin. She asks some of 55 year old competitive female masters
1:23.9	CrossFit athlete. I have a goal of making the games, but I also have a goal of kicking
1:27.8	asked well into my 90s. Are those two goals mutually exclusive? No, they are not. And we've done the
1:35.4	research to kind of show this. We took a blood work from a whole group of CrossFit athletes,
1:43.3	people that went to RGM and not surprising, the markers were better than the population.
1:50.4	But what was really interesting, I did not expect, was this kind of goes in, you know,
1:56.6	flies in the face of some of the stuff, is the more people committed to this, meaning that the
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