Katrin: 'I Never Had Bad Training Days' - The Mindset That Built a CrossFit Champ
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
The 3 Big Questions We're Answering:
1. How can athletes effectively transition from competitive sports to new life stages while maintaining a healthy mindset and purpose?
2. What are the key lessons learned from high-level competition that can be applied to everyday life, particularly in terms of resilience and goal setting?
3. How does the importance of community and supportive training environments contribute to an athlete's success and overall well-being?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to the show. I am Patrick. I am here with Ben, but we don't matter today |
| 0:10.7 | because we're also joined by our friend Kathy David's daughter. Hello, Katrick. How are you? |
| 0:15.1 | Hi, guys. Thank you so much for having me on.. Thank you for taking some time to chat with us. |
| 0:21.4 | We thought it'd be fun to have you on. |
| 0:23.6 | I don't even remember the last time you were on. |
| 0:25.2 | You've been on a number of times, probably back in like the 2000, I'm going to guess, maybe like 18, 19 range. |
| 0:32.1 | But it's been a while since we chatted. |
| 0:33.2 | So you just announced at the end of last year that you were hanging up your, I don't even |
| 0:39.2 | know, what do you call a CrossFit athlete when they hang? |
| 0:41.4 | It's not cleats. |
| 0:42.6 | What do you do when you, what do you hang up when you're done competing as a CrossFit |
| 0:45.3 | athlete? |
| 0:46.3 | Your grips. |
| 0:47.3 | Hang up our trainers? |
| 0:49.3 | Your grips? |
| 0:50.3 | Yeah, your trainers. |
| 0:51.3 | Okay. |
| 0:52.3 | Either way, whatever you hung up, you hung it up in December. |
| 0:54.5 | You announced you're no longer competing in the sport of CrossFit. |
| 0:56.8 | So we thought it'd be fun to have you on, say hi, catch up with what's going on in your life. |
| 1:01.8 | And also talk through some of maybe the big lessons that you learned as an athlete that you are going to do your best to take into life post competition and see if we can't learn some of |
| 1:12.9 | those lessons through you and with you. So I would love to know just as an entry point to this |
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