This is why you train hard all the time, so you create the buffer to be able to withstand these times where you need to be there with your family.

You're turning yourself into an asset, not a burden. You're creating a buffer against your own decrepitude by training consistently all the time.

Hello and welcome to another episode of Chasing Excellence. My name is Patrick Kummings and as always I'm here with Ben

Bergeron every week on the show dedicate some time to

exploring how we can live a life of better health and increased fulfillment. We answer

your questions about the five factors of health dive deep on living a life of

excellence and explore the strategies and frameworks to help us chase what truly matters.

Thank you as always for joining us. How are you been?

I'm doing great.

It's wondrous. This week we've got listener questions about adding strength sessions to gym programming,

dealing with arthritis as a crossfitter, and maintaining your health when life throws you a serious curveball.

Our main conversation today will be about whether

Crossfit is in fact for everyone and then we'll wrap up with a few things that are giving us a little bit of joy

these days. But first I want to remind folks, I talked about this last week in our

episode, we're going to start putting together, we started putting together a weekly

newsletter about the show here and you can find it at chasing excellence dot email you can sign up takes two seconds and we'll let you know what we've got going on every single week and also in every one of those newsletters we include a link where you can ask one of your own questions and

It will get you to the top of the queue so we will still I didn't mention this last time Ben we will still go be going through all of the questions we got that folks have sent me over on Instagram through

through my dams there, but it's going to be a little bit easier and it's going to be faster if folks sign up at chasing excellence

email so great there you have it good move all right my man we're going to jump into our

warm up we start each episode with your questions about the five factors of health, those few fundamental behaviors that most positively affect our performance, vitality, and longevity, those five factors, how we eat, how we move, how we think, how we connect, and how we recover. First question is in our move category. I do not have a name for this, but here is the question. I attend a gym where the 60 minute class has a warm up and a workout.

Afterwards, there is a strength portion.

I do not have time to stay after the workout

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