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Chasing Excellence

Vacation is not Recovery

Chasing Excellence

Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings

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

4.8 โ€ข 2.2K Ratings

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ 1 November 2022

โฑ๏ธ 51 minutes

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Summary

Weโ€™re broadening one of our Five Factors of Health, discussing how to keep cardio up when nursing a lower-body injury, creating a Five Factors scorecard, introducing a brand new format, and more!

EXPECT TO LEARN:  
๐Ÿ“ How to stop competing during every workout
๐Ÿ“ Whether cold exposure is a useful recovery strategy
๐Ÿ“ What to do about a loved one whoโ€™s stuck in their old training ways
๐Ÿ“ Why weโ€™re expanding one of our factors of health from sleep to recovery
๐Ÿ“ How we score ourselves across the five factors of health  

GET A QUESTION IN THE QUEUE:  
Send Patrick a DM with your Five Factors questions!  

ABOUT US:  
๐Ÿ“ Ben Bergeron is a best-selling author, coach to 7 CrossFit Games champions, and founder of CompTrain. Find him on Instagram.
๐Ÿ“ Patrick Cummings is a long-time CrossFitter, podcaster, and creator of Functional Branding. Find him on Instagram.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:05.0

and as always joined here by Ben Bergeron. Every week on the show we dedicate some time

0:10.4

to exploring how we can live a life of better health and increased fulfillment. We answer

0:15.4

your questions about the five factors of health. Dive deep on living a life of excellence

0:20.0

and explore the strategies and frameworks to help us chase what truly matters. Thank you

0:25.2

because always for tuning in. That was good. Thank you. First time I can read. Yeah. That

0:31.7

was a new intro. As a new intro, we are I'm very excited. I'm very excited. We can tell.

0:38.2

You can hear it in your voice. Yeah. We've been talking a bit about reconceptualizing

0:43.8

the show is not right, but maybe reformatting, bringing it, bringing some new life to a show

0:51.7

that we've been doing for 17, 18, 19, 20, 20, like six years, five or six years now.

0:56.7

It's smokes. Yeah. So we're about 250 episodes in and I thought that that was a good time.

1:01.3

This was your joke. 250 episodes in. Okay. Now season two. So in another five years,

1:06.7

we'll have season three. Something like that. And so I'm really excited. We've been chatting

1:12.5

about this for a bit. We have a new format, nothing that folks out there who have been listening

1:17.1

for a while won't recognize, but we are essentially going to take kind of all the different sorts

1:21.9

of episode formats we've done from two minute drills to hopper talks to deep dives to whatever

1:28.4

else we can come up with. We have come up with and we're going to try to find a home for

1:32.9

all of them inside of one episode. And so we won't over consistently going forward.

1:38.0

Exactly. All the episodes will actually have the same set of like, here's our hopper

1:42.4

talk, here's our two minute, here's our deep dive. They all live in. They're all going

1:47.3

to they've all got a new home here. Let's do it. Taking it. So we're going to do some

1:51.2

listener questions. We're going to do a deep dive on about the five factors, something

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