[ ❤️🔥 ] The 3 Varieties of Deadlift, Redefining Our Purpose, Fostering a Gym’s Community, & More
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
We're answering questions from members of our Chase Club this week.
We’re exploring the nuances of incorporating children into gym culture and the role of various deadlift techniques in enhancing performance. We’re also talking about fostering a supportive community in your CrossFit gym and how to redefine your purpose and identity after becoming a parent.
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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.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to Chasing Excellence, the show about chasing what truly matters. |
| 0:04.8 | My name is Patrick Cummings. As always, I'm here with Ben Bergeron. Thank you for joining us. |
| 0:09.0 | How are you, my friend? |
| 0:10.4 | Doing really good. Thanks, Patrick. |
| 0:11.6 | We've got questions from our Chase Club members. The Chase Club is our premium membership |
| 0:17.3 | where folks can get ad-free episodes plus bonus content. Plus your questions jump to the top of the queue. |
| 0:23.4 | If you're interested, chasing excellence. |
| 0:24.7 | Email is the way to get there. |
| 0:26.3 | We've got four really good questions. |
| 0:27.6 | We're going to talk about whether the trap bar really is cheating. |
| 0:30.6 | If kids in the gym are a blessing or a disruption, how to redefine our purpose and self-identity |
| 0:36.2 | after kids. |
| 0:38.8 | And then last one is going to be keeping the fun alive inside a CrossFit affiliate. Speaking of CrossFit affiliates, I wanted to take two |
| 0:43.8 | seconds to let folks know about something new on the Comptrain side of the building. The |
| 0:50.4 | immersions are coming back to life. And I want to talk about this real quick for two reasons. |
| 0:55.2 | One, just because I know we have a lot of gym owners out there listening. |
| 0:57.9 | So I want you to let them know what the emergence are. |
| 1:00.4 | But two, because this podcast really wouldn't exist without the |
| 1:04.7 | emergence that we came up with in 2015 or 2016. |
| 1:08.8 | That was sort of the thing that you and I sat down and be like, |
| 1:10.8 | hey, we should do |
| 1:11.3 | something together and the emergence came out of it. And the podcast was like, hey, we should |
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