World-Class Health in 100 Words
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Modern medicine might define health as the absence of disease, but that's not a good enough definition for us. So we're offering our own, in a format that many CrossFitters will recognize. (See full episode description for text.)
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| 0:00.0 | I think there's very few people and probably very, very, very few people that listen to this podcast |
| 0:04.2 | that don't want what we're talking about, right? That don't want health, that don't want vitality, |
| 0:09.7 | that don't want fulfillment, that don't want to be proud of their bodies and capable, |
| 0:16.0 | functioning livelihood, late into their years. That's not going to just happen. It's not just |
| 0:23.6 | going to magically appear when you wake up the next morning because you thought about it yesterday, |
| 0:28.9 | because you think about starting a diet next Monday, it doesn't mean that you're going to be |
| 0:33.5 | healthier. It's like this thing of wishing, wanting, and hoping. It's the danger zone because |
| 0:40.7 | your body, if you talk to me about your plan to run a marathon, your body rewards you for the |
| 0:46.5 | spoken words of that plan. It sends off dopamine signals. You get feel goods out of it, |
| 0:51.8 | and you feel like you're moving in the right direction. Yet you have done nothing, zero, |
| 0:57.5 | less than nothing's happened yet. Until you start to go out for that very lace up your shoes |
| 1:03.1 | and go out for that very first run, and then you do it again the next day and the next day and so on, |
| 1:08.3 | now we're starting to go and it's that we need, need that intentionality behind it. |
| 1:15.6 | We are here because we know the outcomes in our lives are within our control. |
| 1:19.8 | That taking absolute ownership of how we eat, sleep, train, think, and connect with each other |
| 1:25.3 | is how we'll optimize our health and happiness. That chasing excellence is how we grab hold |
| 1:31.0 | of what is possible. Our mission is to live on the run. Always chasing. Never stop. |
| 1:39.2 | Hello and welcome back to another episode of chasing excellence. As always, I am joined by Ben. |
| 1:47.8 | How you doing, bud? Good, Pat. How you doing? I'm great. Good. Today we're going to actually |
| 1:53.7 | answer a question that somebody sent us. I think for a two-minute drill, but I was like, |
| 1:58.4 | no, that's too good. We're going to do a whole episode on this. Somebody asked us for just like |
| 2:03.2 | CrossFit has Greg Glassman wrote, world class fitness in 100 words. She was curious if we could |
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