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Chasing Excellence

The Three Key Priorities, w/ Jon Gilson

Chasing Excellence

Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings

Health & Fitness, Education, Health, Mindset, Fitness, Self-improvement, Crossfit, Wellness, Holistic Health

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

How do you set priorities when so many things feel important? That’s our question; we’ve got our friend Jon Gilson here to help answer it. Also, your questions about Zone 2 training, doing work we don’t hate, and outgrowing friends.

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EXPECT TO LEARN: 

📍 What Zone 2 training is and whether CrossFitters need to prioritize it

📍 What to think about when balancing financial security and interesting work

📍 Why it’s important to consider your friend group over the course of a decade

📍 The problem with the Rocks analogy we so often hear

📍 Why Ben thinks we should all be using kitchen scissors more often

GET A QUESTION IN THE QUEUE: 

Send Patrick a DM with your Five Factors questions! 

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 and podcaster. Find him on Instagram.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:05.1

Cummings and I was always I am joined this week by Ben Bergeron. We are also

0:09.4

joined by friend of the show John Gilson. Every week here on the show we

0:14.6

dedicate some time to exploring how we can live a life a better health and

0:17.8

increased fulfillment. We answer your questions about the five factors of health

0:21.4

that are deep on living a life of excellence and explore the strategies and

0:24.6

frameworks to help us chase what truly matters. Thank you so much for joining

0:28.9

us and thank you both for joining me today. How you guys doing? Doing good

0:33.9

path. Doing really good. Yeah. I'm excited about this. The two of you I

0:41.3

thought I was thinking about this prior to recording. I have not worked with

0:44.5

anybody more than the two of you. John you and I started again faster back in

0:50.4

again faster equipment back in 2005 2006 depending on when you want to kind of

0:55.6

count it. We did that out of our crappy little apartment in Brookline

1:00.2

Massachusetts and we grew it to something that I thought was really quite

1:04.5

special. Ben obviously you and I have been working together quite a bit since

1:08.3

again faster. This is really fun for me to have both of you on the both of you

1:12.2

on an episode. Beyond that just kind of like that split duality

1:16.4

from you there's there's John was a coach at CrossFit Boston was where I did

1:21.8

my first CrossFit workout like real CrossFit workout. I done them on my own

1:26.6

with Heather and stuff like that but that was the first affiliate I ever went to

1:30.2

and I can remember I mean we started back then it was like not like it is now

1:35.1

if you did CrossFit and you were within 60 miles you knew the other people you

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