Why Mat Fraser Retiring Sucks (2:00 Drill #24)
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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A special CrossFit Open edition of our 2:00 Drill this week! We're taking your questions about finding a coach, using CompTrain but missing the community in the gym, and my take on who gets to call themselves a competitor.
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| 0:00.0 | But for us, what's way more valuable to us? |
| 0:03.0 | Because we're not going to be doing this workout in competition. |
| 0:05.8 | We're just training for it. |
| 0:07.4 | Is, can you feel? |
| 0:10.6 | And that's the big word there. |
| 0:12.0 | Can you feel the red line? |
| 0:14.7 | Can you feel what 70% feels like? |
| 0:17.3 | Can you feel what 85% feels like? |
| 0:19.9 | Can you feel what 95% feels like? |
| 0:22.3 | And can you feel 100? |
| 0:24.9 | That way, when you get into another workout, |
| 0:27.1 | you know that feeling. |
| 0:29.4 | And though, idea behind all of us is we want to be at or around threshold. |
| 0:35.2 | Like, depending on the length of the workout, |
| 0:37.3 | as long as it's over five minutes, |
| 0:39.8 | we are going to be at our threshold. |
| 0:42.5 | The biggest, most overlooked aspect of our sport |
| 0:45.2 | is can you identify what that feels like. |
| 0:49.1 | We are here because we know the outcomes in our lives |
| 0:51.6 | are within our control. |
| 0:53.5 | That taking absolute ownership of how we eat, |
| 0:56.0 | sleep, train, think, and connect with each other |
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