Years and years ago the US ski team came to CrossFit and CrossFit started a little assessment

It was like wow you guys as a whole you guys really suck at pull ups and they're like yeah

It has nothing to do with our support like work legs and power and you know

like

Is it pull ups would do nothing? They're like well, let's just let's just start working on pull ups

You know identify your weakness and kind of make it better and loan be whole we start doing that their performance got better

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Stop hello and welcome back to chasing excellence. How are you Ben?

I'm good. Thanks Patrick. So we're gonna dive into something we've done we've definitely talked around and we've probably answered a

Handful of two-minute real questions kind of related to this but the subject I want to dive into today with you is

How you do or how you would at least advise others others and think about

Using CrossFit to train for another sport or maybe not even specifically another sport another type of sport

And so I think there's a few categories that I'd love to dive into with you today

As it relates to this idea of like

Using what you do in the gym

You know in your gym specifically to do to pursue other

Athletic endeavors outside the gym and so I think there are a couple categories we can hit on one is kind of maybe that lifestyle athlete

Right, and I think that you and I probably fall into that right?

We're skiing basketball on the weekends

Anything outside the gym that is kind of athletic and active

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