Is CrossFit in 2023 Watered Down?
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
We’re answering a listener question about whether CrossFit affiliates are offering a “watered down” version of CrossFit, and whether that’s a good thing if so. We’re talking about the CrossFit Games, standardization across gyms, Hyrox, and more.
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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 Cummings |
| 0:07.3 | and as always I'm here with Ben Bergeron. Every week on the show we dedicate some time |
| 0:11.4 | to exploring how we can live a life of better health and increased fulfillment. |
| 0:14.8 | We answer your questions about the five factories of health that deep |
| 0:17.8 | on living a life of excellence and explore the strategies and frameworks to help us chase what |
| 0:22.2 | truly matters. Thank you so much for joining us and how are you Ben? I'm doing great. Thank you Patrick. |
| 0:28.0 | You were just asking me about something and I wanted to wait to tell you because I was going to tell you |
| 0:31.2 | when we started this episode anyways but my arms are covered in mosquito bites. Yeah it looks like |
| 0:37.0 | and it looks like I have like like chicken box. Yes. Because it's really bad and so we're recording |
| 0:41.4 | on a Thursday and this happened on a Saturday and I thought of you when this happened. I was |
| 0:46.6 | planting some trees in the yard. My wife was like, you plant the enough so whatever. So the project |
| 0:50.9 | was probably like two or three hours long and so it's in Maine and so the main it's Blackfly season |
| 0:55.3 | which just means like all the Blackflies are hatching and they're just like we have like |
| 0:59.1 | it's usually between Mother's Day and Father's Day that they're just like they're just bad |
| 1:03.5 | and so they came a little bit early this year and anyways my point of telling you the story and |
| 1:07.5 | why I thought it was funny that you noticed it was that I was so I was planting these trees and I knew |
| 1:12.4 | like the Blackflies were like surrounding me. I got pants on. Is it mosquitoes or Blackflies? Blackflies. |
| 1:16.8 | So the Blackfly bites? Yeah. Blackflies don't bite do they? These ones do. These ones do. |
| 1:21.4 | Dude your arms are like I know they're covered. Mangle. But but why I'm laughing is because as |
| 1:25.2 | it was happening my my my my wife was like you're stupid and I was like you're right. Don't be a |
| 1:29.6 | victim. I was like I'm gonna see if I can do this without complaining and without going inside to |
| 1:35.2 | like get bug spray or get us get a jacket on. And there it is folks. We've tipped over. We've |
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