[ 💪🏼 ] Negativity in Friendship, The Value of Mentorship, Grief, & More

Chasing Excellence

Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings

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

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

👊 Weekly Newsletter & the Chase Club

We’re jumping into questions from members of the Chase Club around maintaining healthy relationships, starting a personal training business, improving CrossFit competitiveness, and dealing with grief during workouts.

One listener struggles with a friend's negativity, while another seeks advice on becoming a personal trainer.

We also discuss strategies for identifying and overcoming weaknesses in CrossFit, and the importance of allowing space for grief in one's fitness journey.

All of these questions come from members of our Chase Club community, which offers premium content and support for those striving to chase excellence.

⌚TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Introduction and Funny Anecdote

01:02 Listener Question: Friendship and Negativity

10:38 Listener Question: Starting a Personal Training Business

15:02 Thanks to our Sponsors: Magic Spoon & Our Place

18:18 Listener Question: Improving Competitiveness in CrossFit

25:08 Listener Question: Coping with Loss During Workouts

30:02 Conclusion and Thanks

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ABOUT THE SHOW

We answer listener questions about health, fitness, fulfillment, and what it takes to chase what truly matters. New episodes on Tuesdays & Fridays.

ABOUT US

📍 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, writer, and podcaster. Find him on Instagram.

Transcript

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0:00.0	And the Hello and welcome back to Chasing Excellence a show about Chasing What Really Matters.
0:19.6	My name is Patrick Cummings. As always, I'm here with Ben Bergeron.
0:22.2	Thank you all so very much for joining us.
0:24.4	How are you Ben?
0:25.2	Doing great. Thanks for chatting, Pat.
0:27.6	I've forgot to tell you this before we started recording, so I'm just going to tell you now, because I think it's funny.
0:33.4	Michelle and the boys were with some friends the other day and I don't know how it happened but they were
0:36.8	talking about how I've got a podcast and this person who I don't really know that well she was asking my oldest son oh what's what's your dad's
0:43.9	podcast about and totally seriously said protein I was just so proud.
0:49.7	Oh it's so good.
0:55.0	We have a show about protein. But I am so happy that that's where you took away from it.
0:58.0	Whatever the hell I do in this little office.
1:00.0	Prote.
1:01.0	All right, this episode, we've got listener questions, where we take your questions with the five factors of health, those few fundamental behaviors that most positively affect our performance, fatality and longevity.
1:12.0	Specifically this time around we're actually
1:13.2	to take four questions from members of the Chase Club which is our
1:17.4	premium membership. You can learn more about that chasing excellence dot email
1:21.2	you can you can join us which we would. We're just wrapping up a book club.
1:24.8	We've got bonus content. We've got other things we're working on for the future.
1:28.0	So again, Chasing Excellence. Email.
1:29.7	One of the things I try to do, and I'm going to try to do better at, is when Chase Club members send us questions. I'm going to try to do better at is when
1:32.9	Chase Club members send us questions I'm going to try to bump them up to the top of
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