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Chasing Excellence

Improve Your Adaptability

Chasing Excellence

Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings

Health & Fitness, Education, Health, Mindset, Fitness, Self-improvement, Crossfit, Wellness, Holistic Health

4.8 โ€ข 2.2K Ratings

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ 18 April 2023

โฑ๏ธ 69 minutes

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Summary

How can we increase the skill of adaptability? Thatโ€™s the listener question weโ€™re talking through this week, hitting on the reality of change, the role our ego and attitude plays, and what we can learn from Sesame Street.

EXPECT TO LEARN:

๐Ÿ“ How to incorporate training for a half-marathon into CrossFit ๐Ÿ“ If there should be an upper limit on daily protein powder intake ๐Ÿ“ The shift in routine Ben has made to prioritize more sleep ๐Ÿ“ What to say to someone who complains too much ๐Ÿ“ The new 30-day challenge weโ€™re kicking off

Thank you to our sponsors this week: Timeline Nutrition | LandKind

GET A QUESTION IN THE QUEUE:

Send Patrick a DM with your Five Factors questions!

ABOUT US:

๐Ÿ“ Ben Bergeron is a best-selling author, coach to 7 CrossFit Games champions, and founder of CompTrain. Find him on Instagram.

๐Ÿ“ Patrick Cummings is a long-time CrossFitter and podcaster. Find him on Instagram.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of Chasing Excellence. My name is Patrick

0:05.4

Cummings and I was always here with Ben Bergeron. Every week on the I just said

0:09.3

you're new, I don't know why I said that. Every week here on the show we dedicate

0:11.9

some time to exploring how we can live a life of better health and

0:14.1

increased fulfillment. We answer your questions about the five factors of health

0:17.2

that have deep on living a life of excellence and explore the strategies and

0:20.3

frameworks to help chase, to help us chase what truly matters. Thank you so

0:24.7

much for tuning into the show. How you doing Ben? I'm doing great. That was good

0:28.0

with the little flood. Now they know that that's a real real that's a real

0:30.6

live recording. That's not just like I mean plugged in. I want to start with just a

0:35.3

quick shout out. I came to the gym today with to find a package and I realized

0:40.8

that we actually we've got two books that listeners have written and sent us

0:44.4

sent us. And so I just want to give a quick shout out to both of them and a

0:47.9

thank you for sending them along. The first called a Champions Life by Lewis

0:50.8

Andrade, A-N-D-R-A-D-E. It is in Spanish and so I don't know what it's what it's

0:56.0

about but the subtitle is 40 sports stories to develop a success mindset. And

1:00.3

then the second book which we just got by Nicholas Bunny, B-U-N-N-E-Y, it's

1:04.6

called ABCD and it's subtitle is Finding Awareness through, sorry, Finding

1:09.5

Happiness through Awareness, Values, Principles and Actions. Both are great

1:13.2

looking books. And so I look forward to it. Well, I look forward to learning

1:17.0

Spanish so that I can read Lewis's and if high school Spanish is any

1:22.2

indication it'll take me about 400 years to get proficiency. Did you take any

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