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

and as always I am here with Ben Bergeron. Every week on the show we dedicate some time

to exploring how we can live a life of better health and increased fulfillment. We answer

your questions about the five factors of health that have deep on living a life of excellence

and explore the strategies and frameworks that help us chase which really matters. Thank

you so much for joining us. How are you sir?

I'm doing good. Thank you Patrick. Good good good. We are we are into the summer here. We've

got this episode. We've got listener questions about wall walks charting your own path in life,

feeding kids and athletes who know rep themselves to the top of the leaderboard. Our work that's

going to be a conversation about how to focus on the five factors when life gets in the way

and we will wrap up with a recap of your top 10 cross-foot games memories as we are getting

closer to your final cross-foot games. So without it was appropriate to maybe revisit the past.

So we'll wrap up the episode with that. But first our warm up we started to episode with your

questions about the five factors of health. Those few fundamental behaviors that most positively

affect our performance, vitality and longevity. Those five factors are how we eat, how we move,

how we think, how we connect and how we recover. Ready? Let's do it. First question in our move

categories from James. I hate this is a bit of a die of trap. I hate wall walks and I'm not sure

they are being utilized properly in CrossFit. I'm six six foot 220 pounds 43-year-old CrossFit

been doing CrossFit for about 10 years from my level one cert. On the CrossFit website it says

that wall walks are to introduce the basics of inversion. The athlete remains supported by three

points of contact. That sounds like an excellent way for someone to get used to going upside down.

Over the last few years wall walks have become a mainstay in most CrossFit programming that I have

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