Living with Integrity and Finding Balance, w/ Julie Foucher
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 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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📍 How hard it was for Julie to transition out of being a CrossFit Games athlete
📍 Why “feeling” fitter might be more important than chasing specific numbers
📍 What parasympathetic lash-back is and why performers need to be wary of it
📍 How to deal with rep shavers and workout cheaters
📍 Our experience trying to cut our social media use by 50%
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OUR SPONSORS:
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🔗 Landkind
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GET A QUESTION IN THE QUEUE:
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🔗 Send Patrick a DM with your Five Factors questions!
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ABOUT US:
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📍 Ben Bergeron is a best-selling author, coach to 7 CrossFit Games champions, and founder of CompTrain. Find him on Instagram.
📍 Patrick Cummings is a long-time CrossFitter and podcaster. Find him on Instagram.
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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. |
| 0:08.8 | 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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