The Value of the CrossFit Open, CNS vs. Muscular Fatigue, & More - w Cole Sager
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
We're joined by our good friend Cole Sager to tackle some of your questions this week!
We start by discussing whether Masters athletes, particularly women, can continue to lift heavy and compete in CrossFit well into their sixties, and how to navigate that intelligently.
We then dive into the differences between central nervous system fatigue and muscular fatigue, exploring how to identify and address each.
Our Workout this week is the value of the CrossFit Open for non-competitive CrossFitters - is it the best test of fitness, or are there better ways to assess our progress?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of Chasing Excellence, every week on the show, |
| 0:05.4 | who dedicated some time to explore how we can live a life of better health and increased fulfillment. |
| 0:09.6 | We answer your questions about the five factors of health, |
| 0:11.7 | and dive deep on living a life of excellence and explore the strategies and frameworks to help |
| 0:15.7 | us chase, which really matters. |
| 0:17.7 | Thank you, as always for joining us. |
| 0:19.3 | My name is Patrick Cummings. |
| 0:20.3 | I'm joined, as I always am by Ben Bergeron. We also have on the line from the West Coast, friend of the show, |
| 0:26.4 | Cole Sager. How the heck, how are you coal? |
| 0:28.4 | I'm good. I'm good. Happy to be here. |
| 0:30.0 | Good to see you. |
| 0:31.0 | Good to see you, Ben. How are you doing? I'm good, I'm good. Happy to see you. Good to see you. How are you doing? |
| 0:33.0 | I'm good. |
| 0:34.0 | Happy to be here. |
| 0:35.0 | What we've got today. |
| 0:36.0 | We've got a few listener questions to kick off the episode, |
| 0:39.0 | one about lifting heavy and competing into our 60s. |
| 0:41.0 | The other about the difference between CNS and muscle fatigue. |
| 0:44.9 | Our workout is going to be, we're going to talk about the Cross Fit Open, specifically if there's |
| 0:48.5 | value in it for those who aren't competing. |
| 0:51.8 | And we will wrap the episode up with a round of |
| 0:53.5 | recommendations each of us will give you all out there a few things to check out |
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