[ 🏃🏽♂️ ] What Training With Intentional Intensity Actually Looks Like
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
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In this third installment of our series on programming for optimal fitness, we discuss creating a weekly workout framework and emphasize the importance of intentional intensity over maximal effort.
We explore various training zones and provide practical strategies for modulating intensity, ensuring consistent training while prioritizing mechanics, consistency, and then intensity.
We also delve into understanding individual rates of perceived exertion and offer insights on how programming can support sustainable workout practices.
⌚ TIMECODE:
00:00 Welcome to Chasing Excellence
00:13 Recap of Previous Episodes
01:20 Intentional Intensity in Training
04:28 Understanding Training Intensity Zones
07:48 Sustainable Weekly Training Framework
10:58 Thanks to our Sponsors: Our Place & LMNT
13:38 Programming for Different Needs
21:16 Teaching Rate of Perceived Exertion
31:43 Wrapping Up and Future Topics
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We answer listener questions about health, fitness, fulfillment, and what it takes to chase what truly matters. New episodes on Tuesdays & Fridays.
🤙 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, writer, and podcaster. Find him on Instagram.
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| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome back to Chasing Excellence, a show about Chasing What Truly Matters. |
| 0:34.8 | My name is Patrick Cummings, as always of here with Ben Bergeron. How are you Ben? |
| 0:38.4 | So good, Patrick. So good. Good to see you. Thanks everybody for joining us. We are going to dive back in over the last few |
| 0:45.4 | months we've been having a long conversation, a deep dive on programming. We've got two |
| 0:50.9 | episodes already in the can. This is going to be part three of three though of course we may continue this. I hold the right to do a part four if we need to but we've got to |
| 0:58.9 | So like the Rocky movies right there's that's right? Exactly. Exactly people like it. We're going to do it for it. Okay, so on July 30th, we did an episode called three hours a week to get in the best shape of your life. Part two of that conversation, August 13th, did an episode called Train at Intentional Intensity not |
| 1:14.3 | maximal intensity. I'm doing a very quick recap of what we covered in those two. |
| 1:18.3 | We're just going to assume that you're caught up we're not going to do too much |
| 1:21.6 | going backwards but in part one we did talk about a weekly |
| 1:25.2 | framework for getting into the best shape of your life, what a weekly program needs to look like or should look like on a day-to-day |
| 1:31.3 | basis in order to make sure we're hitting all the |
| 1:33.7 | things we need to hit and then in that second episode we talked about two big |
| 1:37.4 | concepts, cyclical threshold conditioning and intentional intensity. If you |
| 1:42.2 | haven't listened to those, press pause, go back, listen to those, |
| 1:45.6 | you'll be caught up. Where do you want to pick this conversation back up? What do you want to focus on now? |
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