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Chasing Excellence

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Chasing Excellence

Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings

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

4.82.2K 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.

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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