Hello and welcome to another episode of Chasing Excellence. My name is Patrick Cummings and as always I am joined

I've been Vergeron. I've been a week here on the show. We dedicate some time to exploring how we can live a life with better health and increased fulfillment.

We answer your questions about the five actors 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 this week. How are you?

I'm doing great. Thanks Patrick.

We are going to just jump right in. I'm going to jump into our warm up where we answer questions about the five factors of health.

Those few fundamental behaviors that most positively affect our performance, vitality and longevity.

Those five factors are how we eat, how we move, how we think, how we connect and how we recover.

We've got listener questions for one listener question for each one of those categories. Let's get right into it with the move category. This is from Sarah.

I started CrossFit a couple months ago and I am on a weight loss journey to hopefully lose 150 pounds.

I gained the weight when I was a varsity high school athlete tore up my knee and faced multi-year long recovery.

I've heard really bad things about CrossFit in that it injures athletes.

My question is CrossFit is the best platform for major weight loss and how can I avoid injury?

Well first off, congrats Sarah on your journey. That's an incredibly lofty aspiration.

150 pounds is no joke. Go get it. Go do that thing.

I'm glad that you're asking what you think is the most efficacious and safest program to help you out.

I do think CrossFit is what I'm on a CrossFit gym. I do think it is the platform to help people achieve weight loss at any level.

But then the question is is it safe or am I going to injure along the way?

Here's my personal viewpoint on that. When we first opened up the gym, we were a really competitive gym. You know this, you are part of the gym back then.

And we had a lot of injuries. We did. We had shoulder injuries, knee injuries, and back injuries as the most common thing.

Over the last at least five years, if not a little bit longer, we've really shifted gears away from the competitive aspect. And we are here to help people like Sarah.

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