Imagine you have a five gallon bucket and at one couple inches up there's this little

spout and you have little army guys, little minions, little Lego guys at the bottom and they're

all doing their job of like filling out buckets and putting a rig right over the spout and dumping it out.

And as long as you're putting in the right amount, those guys get trained on how to do that really

well. You get really good at removing and flushing lactic acid out of your body. But if you go too

hard and you pour too much in there, well now those guys drown, they're done. The bucket can't

drain out and it overflows and you have a mess and those guys didn't learn how to flush out the

lactic acid. You're just going as hard as you can filling up the buckets overflowing,

but it feels good because you worked your hardest. You worked your hardest and there was no doubt about

it. Okay, that's not the goal. The goal is not to do that. The goal is to get better.

We are here because we know the outcomes in our lives are within our control.

That taking absolute ownership of how we eat, sleep, train, think and connect with each other

is how we'll optimize our health and happiness. That chasing excellence is how we grab hold of what is

possible. Our mission is to live on the run. Always chasing. Never stop.

Hello and welcome back to another episode of chasing excellence. How are you been?

I'm doing excellent, Patrick. Thank you. How are you doing?

You're back. I'm doing well. You're back in your office. I think it's been at least a couple

of weeks since we've seen you back in the office. It feels good. It feels good, but weird and strange.

Yes. If you're listening to this, it's the end of August and the game season and the recovery

period is over and now it's back to the normalcy but routine and the things that I love about

everyday life. Yeah. And one of those things is CrossFit New England is your work there,

as you're coaching there, are the athletes there. And that's the world that we're going to

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