Forever Fit | 6 Training Principles for a Yes-to-Anything Life
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
What does it actually mean to be fit for life — not just for a competition, a season, or a phase?
In this episode, Ben, Cole, and Jamison unpack six foundational principles for anyone who wants to build fitness that serves them today, tomorrow, and forever. You'll walk away with a clear framework for training with sustainable effort, building real-world capability, and stacking weeks and months into compounding progress.
This is the Health pillar in its most practical form: fitness not as the goal, but as the foundation for everything that matters.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, before we get into it, quick heads up on something. We're going to relaunch the Chase Club in |
| 0:05.3 | April with some real honest-to-goodness structure. Daily lessons Monday through Thursday, |
| 0:10.3 | aka the Daily Chase, 21-day challenges every single month. And Friday, Chase Club chat clubs to keep |
| 0:16.7 | all of the work alive. And in May, importantly, the price is going to go up significantly. |
| 0:21.4 | Right now, it's just $8 a month or $80 a year. If you've been thinking about joining us, |
| 0:26.6 | April is the best time. Lock in the lowest price it'll ever be. Chasingexcellance.com. |
| 0:31.4 | The link is in the show notes. Okay, let's get into it. |
| 0:38.6 | All right, guys, welcome back, Chasing Excellence, CompTrain-specific episode with Ben and Cole. |
| 0:44.6 | We started these a couple of months ago, talking to training-specific principles on Chasing |
| 0:50.0 | Excellence, doing a monthly episode, so we are back for the next one. |
| 0:55.7 | Today, we're going to talk about six specific principles or kind of mindsets of being athletic forever so yeah how you guys doing good |
| 1:03.3 | good doing good today tomorrow and forever wow yeah you are the athlete, Ben. So you have had longer to be a forever athlete than Cole and I have. |
| 1:17.1 | So you are more advanced at being forever than we are. |
| 1:23.8 | I'm more advanced at, yes. |
| 1:27.2 | The one thing I'm more advanced at athletically is... |
| 1:30.2 | There's a kind way of saying you're older than us. |
| 1:33.2 | Yes. |
| 1:34.4 | Yes. |
| 1:34.7 | Yeah, you're further along in your forever journey and into eternity than we are. |
| 1:40.4 | You know, the eternal athlete. |
| 1:42.5 | So, congrats. |
| 1:43.4 | Young grasshoppers. Young grasshoppers. |
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