Prison CrossFit, How to Create Perspective, The Happy List, & More
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
We're answering three of your questions this week:
📍 Can a CrossFit athlete's performance become worse due to running, and if so, how much running is too much?
📍 Why is it important to stay informed about the news and politics, even if it can be seen as mostly entertainment and outside of our control?
📍 How can one build a relationship with oneself after spending many years focused on being who everyone else wanted them to be, especially after a divorce and at a young age?
PLUS:
📍 We're talking about when Ben went to prison to learn more about a program bringing CrossFit to inmates.
📍 We wrap up with another round of our Recommendation Roundup, where we talk about what we've been reading, listening to, and enjoying lately.
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| 0:00.0 | And when you are on your deathbed and you're looking back at your life, what is it that you're going to, |
| 0:06.8 | you know, that you're so grateful for and what are you going to be regretful of? |
| 0:09.8 | Using that to steer the direction of your life now is a really powerful way to navigate the |
| 0:15.8 | infinite number of possibilities that we have. It's beginning with the end in mind. |
| 0:20.0 | The future is in front of us and we can't change the past but we can change the future. |
| 0:24.9 | And for us to create that really strong relationship with ourselves, |
| 0:28.3 | understanding who we want to be, what is that thing we want to do? |
| 0:32.6 | Hello and welcome to another episode of Chasing Excellence. My name is Patrick Cummings. |
| 0:37.0 | As always, I'm here with Ben Bergeron. Every week on the show, we dedicate some time to exploring |
| 0:41.7 | how we can live a life of better health and increased fulfillment. We answer your questions |
| 0:46.2 | about the five factors of health. I have deep on living a life of excellence and explore the |
| 0:50.0 | strategies and frameworks to help us chase what truly matters. Thank you so much for joining us |
| 0:55.2 | this week. How are you been? I'm doing great. Thank you, Patrick. Good, my man. We have this episode, |
| 1:00.9 | some listener questions about how to best balance running and crossfit, whether we think ignoring |
| 1:06.7 | the news or current events leaves us unable to change things that need changing and building a better |
| 1:12.3 | relationship with oneself. Our workout this week will be a conversation about that time that you |
| 1:18.1 | went to prison. I'm just going to leave it that and then wrap it up with a round of our recommendations |
| 1:24.5 | where we'll just chat about whatever books, podcasts, activities. We have been enjoying |
| 1:29.5 | ready to get into the warm-up. Let's go. We start every episode with listener questions about |
| 1:35.2 | the five factors of health, those few fundamental behaviors that most positively affect our performance, |
| 1:39.8 | vitality and longevity. Those five factors are how we eat, how we move, how we think, connect, |
| 1:45.8 | and how we recover. First question is in our move category today. It says, I'm 42, |
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