If You Want To Run Fast, Run Fast (2:00 #28)
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Your questions are back in the spotlight. We're answering questions about programming when you have limited time and equipment, why I don't think we need to establish a VO2 Max threshold for Games athletes, dealing with CrossFit skeptics, and more.
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Questions Answered:
01:45 - Dealing with comparing ourselves to others
04:30 - Increasing coaching skills with limited time
06:40 - Moving from living to thriving
10:40 - Determining VO2 Max for CrossFit athletes
12:00 - Training for physique and health
14:45 - Programming for limited training time
18:30 - Communicating patience for members looking for progress
21:45 - Seeing women become Navy SEALs
24:00 - Surviving as a gym without social media
28:45 - Taking cold showers in the morning and hot ones at night
31:50 - Running faster by running faster
34:35 - Dealing with CrossFit skeptics
43:00 - Moving the CrossFit Games out of the USA
👉🏼 Ben Bergeron is a best-selling author, coach to 7 CrossFit Games champions, and founder of CompTrain.
👉🏼 Patrick Cummings is a long-time CrossFitter, podcaster, and creator of Functional Branding.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think the VO2 max levels should range from and to for an elite cross-fitter? |
| 0:08.0 | I have no idea |
| 0:10.0 | I just |
| 0:12.0 | And purposely so like I just have very little interest in |
| 0:17.4 | Like why are we not talking about like contractile potential like that probably has more to do with our sport than otherwise |
| 0:23.1 | But no one's talking about that and like in weightlifting because it doesn't matter |
| 0:26.6 | It's like your VO2 max. Yes, it is a correlate to performance in endurance sports |
| 0:32.5 | But if it was the thing they would go like hey, let's not run the boss marathon |
| 0:36.5 | Let's just line up and let's just figure out who has the highest VO2 max |
| 0:40.0 | We are here because we know the outcomes in our lives are within our control |
| 0:44.6 | That taking absolute ownership of how we eat sleep trained think and connect with each other is how we'll optimize our health and happiness |
| 0:52.5 | That chasing excellence is how we grab hold of what is possible our mission is to live on the run |
| 0:59.8 | Always chasing never stop |
| 1:03.4 | Hello and welcome back to another episode of chasing |
| 1:09.2 | Excellence how you doing, Ben? Good. How you doing Patrick? |
| 1:12.7 | Very well. Hey, we are returning to our two-minute drill |
| 1:15.9 | Two-minute drill for those folks who might not know is when |
| 1:19.0 | We pick through all the many questions folks send us and me on Instagram |
| 1:25.8 | With the challenge of getting them answered within two minutes |
| 1:30.0 | If you want to get on the list or if you want to get a question on the list find me on Instagram at ps Cummings |
| 1:35.7 | And just send me a DM and I will add it to our list. I'll get into a future episode |
| 1:41.8 | All these are certainly stuff we talk about all the time |
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