Competing Too Much, Hijacking Conversations, Living on Autopilot, Walking 300k Steps, & More - with Cole Sager
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Cole Sager joins us as he’s preparing for his 10th straight CrossFit Games appearance to answer listener questions about how to know if you’re competing too much, how to stop hijacking conversations, what it looks like to live on autopilot, and much more.
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EXPECT TO LEARN:
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📍 How and why Cole and Ben first started working together
📍 When competing too much might do more damage than good
📍 What parasympathetic lash-back is, and why you want to be careful of it
📍 What Cole’s training looked like after Semifinals
📍 Why it’s important to be the most curious person in a conversation
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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 & podcaster. Find him on Instagram.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of Chasing Excellence every week here on the show. |
| 0:11.6 | It dedicates some time to explore how we can live a life of better health and increased |
| 0:15.5 | fulfillment. We answer your questions about five actors of health. I'm deep on living a life |
| 0:19.8 | of excellence and explore the strategies and frameworks that help us chase between matters. |
| 0:24.0 | My name is Patrick Cummings here as always with Ben Bergeron and this week we've got a special |
| 0:28.7 | guest with us. We are joined by friend of the show Cole Seger fist bumps to call all the way |
| 0:34.4 | out there on the west coast. How are you Cole? Good. What's up guys? Oh, I'm excited to |
| 0:39.6 | I'm excited to chat with you. Okay, so for the four people who don't know who Cole Seger is, |
| 0:44.0 | you've been on the show before. You've been a long time friend of the show. You are training for |
| 0:48.6 | your tenth CrossFit Games appearance. You and Ben have worked together. Have you guys worked |
| 0:53.4 | together for the entirety of that 10 year run? Cole? No, no. We're I think we're on a year |
| 0:59.1 | if I did math correctly, but also just those first two years, those first two years we don't talk |
| 1:04.3 | about it. Those weren't really. No, we should talk about that because that was I was like, |
| 1:10.0 | I saw Cole in the warm up area. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, look at that. That's a true story. Get me some |
| 1:18.9 | of that. That is a 100% of true story. That's literally how it went. I was like, okay, then |
| 1:24.5 | all right. So what was the can you identify quickly and easily what that thing was that you saw |
| 1:29.9 | that you I don't remember the I don't remember what the event was. Cole can probably remember that, |
| 1:34.8 | but in the warm up area of the CrossFit Games in the at the StubHub Center, Cole was doing |
| 1:41.6 | like these plyometric warmups and he know CrossFit Games athletes were moving like like a division |
| 1:48.2 | like a division one football player doing plyometrics. So he was super explosive and you could see |
| 1:56.0 | the athleticism and then that was the thing I was like, ooh, that'd be fun. You know, it kind of |
| 2:03.8 | felt like there's like the opposite of like a cheetah stalking a gazelle like they don't like |
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