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Chasing Excellence

Living with Integrity and Finding Balance, w/ Julie Foucher

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 16 May 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Should we sacrifice now for security later, forgo security later and enjoy now, or find a balance between the two? Friend-of-the-show Julie Foucher joins us to talk through that and listener questions about why she’s training now, how to handle rep shavers, and more.

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EXPECT TO LEARN:

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πŸ“ How hard it was for Julie to transition out of being a CrossFit Games athlete

πŸ“ Why β€œfeeling” fitter might be more important than chasing specific numbers

πŸ“ What parasympathetic lash-back is and why performers need to be wary of it

πŸ“ How to deal with rep shavers and workout cheaters

πŸ“ Our experience trying to cut our social media use by 50%

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OUR SPONSORS:

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πŸ”— Landkind

πŸ”— Timeline Nutrition

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GET A QUESTION IN THE QUEUE:

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πŸ”— Send Patrick a DM with your Five Factors questions!

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ABOUT US:

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

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

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:08.8

I am here as always with Ben Bergeron and we have a special guest. We've got a friend

0:13.0

of the show this week. Julie Fouche is joining us every week here on the show. We dedicate

0:18.4

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

0:22.8

We answer your questions about the five factors of health that I have deep on living

0:25.9

a life of excellence and explore the strategies and frameworks to help us chase what truly

0:30.0

matters. Thank you all so much for joining us and Julie. Thank you for joining us. For

0:34.9

the few folks who maybe don't know who you are, here's the very high level bio. You're

0:38.7

multi times, multi time, cross for games competitor, physician for wild health, which is a precision

0:43.9

telemedicine practice and you're a podcaster. What am I missing there? What else do you like

0:47.9

to add to your bio for folks who maybe don't know you?

0:51.4

That sounds great to me. Those are good. I like those. Cool.

0:56.2

All right. So Julie, thank you for joining us. We are as we have done with friends of

1:00.2

the show. We're just going to kind of fit you into our format here. So what we've got

1:04.1

coming up this week or this episode, we've got questions about current, our current health

1:08.4

and fitness goals, appreciating the highs of performance and the lows of everyday life

1:12.7

equally and dealing with rep shavers or workout this week is going to be a conversation about

1:18.3

how to balance our health with our ambitions and our work. And lastly, we'll wrap up our

1:23.9

most recent 30 day challenge. Ready? Ready? Let's go. We are going to start our episode.

1:30.7

We're going to start as we always do with our questions about five factors of health,

1:34.2

those few fundamental behaviors that most positively affect our performance vitality

1:37.2

and longevity, those five factors are how we eat, how we move, how we think, how we

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