4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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We’re talking about when things don’t turn out as we hope, but do turn out for the better. We’re also answering your questions about CrossFit programming, protein intake, hard conversations with in-laws, and citing our sources.
EXPECT TO LEARN:
📍 Whether doing “double strength” before a metcon is a good idea
📍 Best practices for staying healthy while traveling a ton
📍 How to get enough protein in to gain weight
📍 What to do if you keep waking up in the middle of the night
📍 How to set better boundaries with family members
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, podcaster, and creator of Functional Branding. Find him on Instagram.
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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 as always I am here with Ben Bergeron. Every week on the show we |
0:09.7 | dedicate some time to exploring how we can live a life of better health and |
0:13.1 | increased fulfillment. We answer your questions about the five factors of |
0:17.4 | health that have deep on living a life of excellence and explore the strategies |
0:21.0 | and frameworks to help us chase what truly matters. Thank you so much for joining |
0:25.2 | us. How have you been? I'm doing great. Thank you Patrick. We've got in this |
0:28.7 | episode. We've got some listener questions about CrossFit Jim's |
0:33.0 | programming double strength, which I've never really heard of that phrase before |
0:36.5 | double strength, plus a Metcom. Questions about setting boundaries within laws |
0:41.1 | and staying on track when traveling a lot. Our workout is going to be a |
0:44.5 | conversation about how sometimes we get what we need even if we're not getting |
0:48.7 | what we want and then finally we're just going to do a quick chat about a |
0:54.3 | recent review on Apple Podcasts that I thought was actually kind of interesting. |
0:58.7 | So we'll do that quickly at the end. But first our warm up. We start each |
1:03.1 | episode with your questions about the five factors of health. Those few |
1:06.4 | fundamental behaviors that most positively affect our performance of |
1:09.2 | vitality and longevity. Those five factors are how we eat, how we move, how we |
1:13.7 | think, how we connect with each other and how we recover. Ready for the first |
1:18.5 | one? Let's go. As we do, we jump into the move category and move factor first. |
1:22.8 | This question is from Kyle. Do you feel like your average CrossFit class should |
1:27.6 | be doing a quote unquote double strength program as part of a normal as part of |
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