Life Gives Us Exactly What We Need (2:00 Drill #35)
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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01:30 - Getting a spouse into CrossFit 05:50 - Knowing if it’s too late to be a competitive Games athlete 10:30 - Making the best of a sub-optimal job choice 16:00 - Incorporating spirituality into the think factor 23:20 - Earning trust as a coach 29:00 - Raising children to embrace challenges 34:20 - Learning how to move better in the gym 37:30 - Training athletes who don’t eat meat 41:50 - Thanking new members of your gym
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About Us:
👉🏼 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.
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| 0:00.0 | We are here because we know the outcomes in our lives are within our control. |
| 0:10.4 | That taking absolute ownership of how we eat, sleep, train, think and connect with each |
| 0:14.9 | other is how we'll optimize our health and happiness. |
| 0:18.7 | That chasing excellence is how we grab hold of what is possible. |
| 0:22.8 | Our mission is to live on the run. |
| 0:25.6 | Always chasing. |
| 0:26.8 | Never stop. |
| 0:28.0 | Hello and welcome back to another episode of chasing excellence. |
| 0:33.2 | How are you been? |
| 0:34.2 | Doing so good Patrick. |
| 0:35.2 | Thanks. |
| 0:36.2 | It's good to see you as we said a few who knows when how many number of episodes |
| 0:39.9 | ago now, but we are actually doing this in person again. |
| 0:42.1 | So that's lovely. |
| 0:43.1 | So good. |
| 0:44.1 | So it's good to see you. |
| 0:45.1 | We have this week a two minute drill. |
| 0:46.3 | Two minute drill is when I go through my Instagram DMs and source incredibly good questions |
| 0:51.4 | from listeners, questions that they're very good, surprisingly good. |
| 0:59.2 | They're like, I see the questions and I'm like, I should have thought of that question, |
| 1:03.0 | but I rarely do it. |
| 1:04.0 | So thank you everybody out there for sending us your questions. |
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