Chasing Long Term vs. Short Term Performance
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
We're talking about the different areas of focus for a CrossFit Games athlete and someone who's chasing health, diving into maximizing your minutes, keeping the frisbee of life in balance, and developing a single-minded focus.
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👉🏼 Ben Bergeron is a best-selling author, coach to 7 CrossFit Games champions, and founder of CompTrain.
👉🏼 Patrick Cummings is a long-time CrossFitter, podcaster, and creator of Functional Branding.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We are here because we know the outcomes in our lives are within our control. |
| 0:10.4 | That taking absolute ownership of how we eat, sleep, train, think and connect with each |
| 0:14.9 | other is how we'll optimize our health and happiness. |
| 0:18.7 | That chasing excellence is how we grab hold of what is possible. |
| 0:22.8 | Our mission is to live on the run. |
| 0:25.6 | Always chasing. |
| 0:26.8 | Never stop. |
| 0:28.1 | Go! |
| 0:29.1 | Hello and welcome back to another episode of Chasing Excellence. |
| 0:33.5 | How are you been? |
| 0:34.5 | Doing great Patrick. |
| 0:35.5 | Thanks. |
| 0:36.5 | How are you doing? |
| 0:37.5 | I'm doing very well. |
| 0:38.5 | Thank you. |
| 0:39.5 | We are going to talk about something today that on the surface I think feels really obvious. |
| 0:44.7 | But I think my hope is and I'm confident that we will be able to dig into some of the |
| 0:49.2 | nuance and pick things apart a little bit to get a better understanding of these things |
| 0:53.1 | and that the sort of the big, slightly obvious thing is thinking about looking at, talking |
| 0:58.6 | about the differences between somebody pursuing the CrossFit Games and somebody at CrossFit |
| 1:04.5 | New England pursuing fitness. |
| 1:07.4 | A regular member versus a games athlete or an athlete who wants to be the games athlete. |
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