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

Cummings and as always joined by Ben Bergeron every week here on the show. We

dedicate some time to exploring how we can live a life of better health and

increased fulfillment. We answer your questions about the five factors of health.

Dive deep on living a life of excellence and explore the strategies and

frameworks to help us chase what truly matters. Thank you so much for tuning in to

the show. I've had great Ben, I'm doing great, excited chat. As always we're

going to, uh, we've got coming up this episode. We've got listener questions

about lifting heavy as we get older, balancing entrepreneurship and family,

and enjoying the journey of getting healthy. Our workout this week is going to be

a conversation about stress. And we're going to wrap it up with another roundup

of the podcast books and activities we've been enjoying lately. Let us get

into it. We started episode with your questions about the five factors of

health, those few fundamental behaviors that most positively affect our

performance, vitality and longevity. Those factors, how we eat, how we move,

how we think, how we connect and how we recover. First question is in the move

category. As it always is, I don't have a name here, but I've been doing cross

foot for the last 10 years. I'm 41 now and feel like my strength is struggling

and I'm starting to get recurring injuries. Is there a point as we age,

where lifting heavy should be reduced? If so, what should my focus be going

forward? Uh, to answer that question, I would need to know two things. So, um,

should have very reduced. I don't know how much they're lifting now, right? So,

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