We’re Rewriting the Purpose of the Gym
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
We’re talking about how to know what a “healthy” body looks like in a world of Instagram, PEDs, and photoshop. We’ve also got listener questions about protein intake, getting more sleep, and coaching CrossFit kids, and more!
EXPECT TO LEARN:
📍 Ben’s thoughts on “self-help” 📍 How to get enough protein in during the day 📍 A few ways to get more sleep, even when super busy 📍 Why we want to start with the end in mind with training 📍 Why performance is correlated to capacity
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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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of Chasing Excellence. My name is Patrick |
| 0:04.8 | Cummings and as always I'm here with Ben Bergeron. Every week on the show we |
| 0:09.5 | dedicate some time to exploring how we can live a life of better health and |
| 0:12.9 | increased fulfillment. We answer your questions about the five factors of health |
| 0:17.2 | that have deep on living a life of excellence and explore the strategies and |
| 0:20.8 | frameworks to help us chase what truly matters. Thank you as always for joining |
| 0:25.4 | us this week. How have you been? I'm doing great. Thanks, Patrick. |
| 0:29.4 | We got to get it on lined up. A bunch of listener questions. We've got questions |
| 0:33.2 | about self-help, getting enough protein and whether it's better to prioritize |
| 0:37.3 | catching up on sleep when possible versus staying consistent with our sleep |
| 0:41.5 | schedules. We've got to work out today talking about getting a clearer sense of |
| 0:46.3 | what it actually looks like to be healthy in a world of performance and |
| 0:49.7 | enhancing drugs, Photoshop and social media and then we're going to do an old |
| 0:54.5 | hopper talk at the end that will I think let us both feel like crumpialed meant |
| 0:59.1 | for a few minutes, which we appreciate. All right, we're going to jump into our |
| 1:03.6 | workout. We started to work out. We start each episode rather with your questions |
| 1:07.1 | about the five factors of health, those few fundamental behaviors that most |
| 1:10.6 | proactively, that most positively affect your performance, vitality and longevity. |
| 1:15.7 | Those five factors are how we eat, how we move, how we think, how we connect |
| 1:20.3 | with each other and how we recover. Ready for the first one first? Let's go. This |
| 1:25.8 | is in the move category and it's from Alan. How do you level out muscular |
| 1:31.0 | imbalances between sides? For example, single arm row. I can do 10 reps, left arm, |
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