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Chasing Excellence

Life-Changing Quotes (Hoppertalk #05)

Chasing Excellence

Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings

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

4.8 β€’ 2.2K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 17 August 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

HopperTalk is back this week. Patrick and I talk through the adult problems nobody prepared us for, whether Tia is the most dominant athlete in CrossFit Games history, things from the 90s that we miss, and more.

Find us on Social: Ben | Patrick

Questions Answered:

02:05 - What's a quote that's permanently changed the way you look at things?
11:10 - What is something free on the internet that everyone should take advantage of?
24:00 - What benchmark workout should appear in the CrossFit Games?
28:40 - What is the worst minor injury?
31:50 - What is an "adult problem" that nobody prepared you for?
37:50 - Is Tia Clair Toomey the most dominant athlete the CrossFit Games has ever seen?
40:50 - What has no right to be as difficult as it is?
54:00 - What is a simple, painful fact that people need to just get over & accept?
59:05 - What's something from the 90s that you miss?
63:54 - How many fist pumps are acceptable in a training session?

πŸ‘‰πŸΌ Ben Bergeron is a best-selling author, coach to 7 CrossFit Games champions, and founder of CompTrain.

πŸ‘‰πŸΌ Patrick Cummings is a long-time CrossFitter, podcaster, and creator of Functional Branding.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What does they quote on quote, adult problem that nobody prepared you for?

0:04.8

You first. So we might have been to talk about this if we didn't talk about on the podcast.

0:11.9

I think we talked about it personally, but when you become a parent,

0:17.6

when you become a dad, nobody talks about how often you're going to get kicked in the balls.

0:26.3

We are here because we know the outcomes in our lives are within our control.

0:33.6

That taking absolute ownership of how we eat, sleep, train, think and connect with each other

0:38.8

is how we'll optimize our health and happiness. That chasing excellence is how we grab hold

0:44.5

of what is possible. Our mission is to live on the run. Always chasing. Never stop.

0:51.2

Let's go. Hello and welcome back to another episode of Chasing Excellence. How are you, sir?

0:58.1

I'm very good, Patrick. Thanks. You are still on the cape. You're wrapping up. I think you're wrapping

1:02.4

up your yearly trip down to the Cape right? Yes. Yeah. We are about two weeks post games.

1:08.3

So wrapping things up. Awesome. Cool. So I thought it'd be fun kind of continuing that

1:15.3

in our last conversation, we talked about the games and sort of the the one or two week kind of

1:19.9

deep breath you guys take after the games. And so I thought we'd use that as an excuse to have

1:23.6

another hopper talk episode. Hopper talk is when I go onto the internet and I find interesting

1:30.8

conversations or interesting questions rather that might spark some friendly banter and some

1:36.1

friendly argument between the two of us. So that's what we're going to do again today. I got all

1:40.9

of these questions except for the CrossFit Focus ones on Reddit this time. Turns out Reddit can

1:46.4

be useful if you use it appropriately. And so I got all of these questions off Reddit. So if

1:51.2

anybody out there has interesting questions that kind of fit this mode or this format,

1:55.8

find me on the Instagram's PS Cummings, send me a DM and I'll add it to our list.

2:01.1

All right, ready? Rock and roll. Okay. All right, our first question today. I'll let you go first.

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