Daily Actions to Build the Five Factors of Health
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
We’re talking about the actions to take (nearly) every day to balance the five factors of health. We’re also answering questions about red light therapy, cutting people out of our lives, and nasal breathing during CrossFit.
EXPECT TO LEARN:
📍 The usefulness of nasal breathing during hard CrossFit workouts
📍 Why meditation and breath work are hard habits to stick to
📍 Some tips on eating well while in big cities
📍 Why the people you spend the most time with matter so much
📍 Some recent recommendations for things we’re enjoying
This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp.
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 back to another episode of Chasing Excellence. My name is Pat Dracommings |
| 0:05.8 | and as always I am joined by Ben Verseran. Every week here on the show we dedicate some time |
| 0:11.0 | to exploring how we can live a life of better health and increased fulfillment. We answer |
| 0:15.9 | your questions about the five factors of health that I've deep on living a life of excellence |
| 0:19.6 | and explore the strategies and frameworks to help us chase what truly matters. Thank you |
| 0:24.0 | as always for tuning into the show. How have had Karri Ben? I am doing well Patrick. Thank you. |
| 0:30.6 | We are we've got a good episode. We've got great questions on red light therapy. What else we have |
| 0:37.1 | cutting people loose from your life. We're going to talk about some habits across the five factors |
| 0:42.4 | and then we're going to do a recommendation round up at the end. We are going to start as we |
| 0:47.4 | often do or as we always do rather with our warm-up which is your questions about the five factors |
| 0:53.2 | of health. Those few fundamental behaviors that most positively affect your performance, |
| 0:57.0 | vitality and longevity. Those five factors are how we eat, how we move, how we think, how we connect |
| 1:03.0 | and how we recover. Ready for the first one? It's roll. First one is in our move factor. This is from |
| 1:08.7 | Diego. What are your thoughts on nasal breathing during crossfit workouts that require to be in zone 4 |
| 1:15.3 | or 5? Would you recommend? So for people out on familiar zone 4 or 5 means that you're working |
| 1:21.8 | really hard and you're breathing really heavy. So zone 2, you could hold a conversation much like |
| 1:27.0 | I'm holding right now. Zone 3 would be I could get a few sentences out and then take a breath |
| 1:34.2 | like this. Zone 4 would be hard. I get a word out every few breaths and zone 5 would basically be |
| 1:43.8 | yep good very short. That's a nice correlage to paint a picture of what they're talking about. |
| 1:50.8 | It's usually correlated with heart rate but I like that that that the talking test is a better |
| 1:55.1 | like that. Okay so the question is in zone 4 or 5 what's your thoughts on nasal breathing? |
| 2:02.4 | I didn't I tried to catch it. I had to call my dad reflexes. |
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