Chasing Excellence

Before you decide to go keto or vegan or low carb or high protein, take a listen to this short conversation about the most important question you need to ask and answer, first principles, and starting with the end in mind. Find us on Social: Ben | Patrick 👉🏼 Ben Bergeron is a best-selling author , coach to 7 CrossFit Games champions, and founder of CompTrain . 👉🏼 Patrick Cummings is a long-tim...

Lauren Johnson is a mental performance coach for professional athletes and entrepreneurs. She joins us to talk about the difference between challenges and threats, the power of self-talk, separating facts from feelings, and more. Find us on Social: Lauren | Ben | Patrick 👉🏼 Ben Bergeron is a best-selling author , coach to 7 CrossFit Games champions, and founder of CompTrain . 👉🏼 Patrick Cummin...

Your questions are back in the spotlight! This time around, we're talking about how to make sure your ladder is up against the right wall, the pros and cons of an open gym period, lactate threshold training, and a bunch more. Find us on Social: Ben | Patrick 👉🏼 Ben Bergeron is a best-selling author , coach to 7 CrossFit Games champions, and founder of CompTrain . 👉🏼 Patrick Cummings is a long-...

We've talked about making sure our ladders are up against the right walls, but how do you also make sure you're climbing up the ladder? We dive into that here, talking about the system I use to chase fulfillment, from my big goals to my daily tasks. Find us on Social: Ben | Patrick 👉🏼 Ben Bergeron is a best-selling author , coach to 7 CrossFit Games champions, and founder of CompTrain . 👉🏼 Pat...

Sergey Young is an author and investor working to radically extend human health and lifespans. He joins us to talk about the definition of aging, the technology of the near future, creating lives worth extending, and more. Find us on Social: Sergey | Ben | Patrick 👉🏼 Ben Bergeron is a best-selling author , coach to 7 CrossFit Games champions, and founder of CompTrain . 👉🏼 Patrick Cummings is a...

Is comparison the thief of joy? That's the question we pose at the start of this week's episode, talking about intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation, what a true competitor looks like, and how to use our ambition for good. Find us on Social: Ben | Patrick 👉🏼 Ben Bergeron is a best-selling author , coach to 7 CrossFit Games champions, and founder of CompTrain . 👉🏼 Patrick Cummings is a long-time Cr...

We're getting into some best practices for delivering effective GPP programming. We're talking about programming for horsepower, why 18-minute WODs shouldn't be considered "long," and why we offer three different programming tracks to our members. Find us on Social: Ben | Patrick 👉🏼 Ben Bergeron is a best-selling author , coach to 7 CrossFit Games champions, and founder of CompTrain . 👉🏼 Patri...

We're revisiting one of our most popular conversations from the early days of the podcast, talking about why I prefer to keep my nutritional advice simple, the value of getting blood work done, & why both quality & quantity matter. Find us on Social: Ben | Patrick 👉🏼 Ben Bergeron is a best-selling author , coach to 7 CrossFit Games champions, and founder of CompTrain . 👉🏼 Patrick Cummi...

HopperTalk is back this week. Patrick and I talk through the adult problems nobody prepared us for, whether Tia is the most dominant athlete in CrossFit Games history, things from the 90s that we miss, and more. Find us on Social: Ben | Patrick Questions Answered: 02:05 - What's a quote that's permanently changed the way you look at things? 11:10 - What is something free on the internet that every...

We're talking through my experience at the 2021 CrossFit Games - from NoBULL's first year as the sponsor, to my thoughts on the programming, CompTrain's overall performance, and the young guns making a run for the podium. Find us on Social: Ben | Patrick 👉🏼 Ben Bergeron is a best-selling author , coach to 7 CrossFit Games champions, and founder of CompTrain . 👉🏼 Patrick Cummings is a long-time...

The 2:00 Drill is back, featuring your questions on the chasing excellence approach to dating, why we don't program strength-only days at CrossFit New England, choosing whether to go to the gym early or sleep in, and more. Find us on Social: Ben | Patrick Questions Answered: 02:10 - Approaching dating with an attitude of chasing excellence 04:20 - Differentiating one-upping and trying to relate 06...

In this edition of our 3x3, I'm talking through some of the small things that CrossFit New England does well, how I think about building stronger relationships, and ways to make our lives simpler. Find us on Social: Ben | Patrick 👉🏼 Ben Bergeron is a best-selling author , coach to 7 CrossFit Games champions, and founder of CompTrain . 👉🏼 Patrick Cummings is a long-time CrossFitter, podcaster,...

We're revisiting one of our most popular conversations from the early days of the podcast, talking about why it's important to determine our level of discipline and then never break the chain of daily success. Find us on Social: Ben | Patrick 👉🏼 Ben Bergeron is a best-selling author , coach to 7 CrossFit Games champions, and founder of CompTrain . 👉🏼 Patrick Cummings is a long-time CrossFitter...

We talk all the time about the five factors of health, but how do they apply to our kids? We're diving into that question, talking about how I ensure that my kids are eating well, how we set up the house to reduce food conflict, and more. Find us on Social: Ben | Patrick 👉🏼 Ben Bergeron is a best-selling author , coach to 7 CrossFit Games champions, and founder of CompTrain . 👉🏼 Patrick Cummin...

Your questions are back in the spotlight. We're answering questions about programming when you have limited time and equipment, why I don't think we need to establish a VO2 Max threshold for Games athletes, dealing with CrossFit skeptics, and more. Find us on Social: Ben | Patrick Questions Answered: 01:45 - Dealing with comparing ourselves to others 04:30 - Increasing coaching skills with limited...

Greg McKeown is the author of Essentialism and Effortless. He joins us to discuss why easy things aren't always trivial, having faith that the process will work, working backward from our optimal max, and a whole lot more. Find us on Social: Greg | Ben | Patrick 👉🏼 Ben Bergeron is a best-selling author , coach to 7 CrossFit Games champions, and founder of CompTrain . 👉🏼 Patrick Cummings is a l...

This week, we're republishing a conversation I had with Chris Williamson on his podcast, Modern Wisdom. We go deep on what it means to live a life of excellence, the hierarchy of mindset, living for the remembering self, and a whole lot more. [[]---[]]   Chasing Excellence is an audience-supported project. To go deeper & to help us do even more, consider: · Subscribing to our newsletter to get...

HopperTalk is back! This time around, Patrick and I are giving our thoughts on normalizing naps, what we'd change about CrossFit's early days, whether we think first impressions are usually accurate, our favorite Games events, and more! [[]---[]]   Chasing Excellence is an audience-supported project. To go deeper & to help us do even more, consider: · Subscribing to our newsletter to get our f...

Dr. Jonathan Fader is a performance psychologist who's worked with pro athletes in the MLB and NFL. He joins us this week to talk about earning trust, getting our mental reps in, why he sees life as a sport, and a bunch more. [[]---[]]   Chasing Excellence is an audience-supported project. To go deeper & to help us do even more, consider: · Subscribing to our newsletter to get our free posts a...

Our 2:00 Drill is back! We're answering your questions about learning how to relax without guilt, helping athletes fulfill their dreams, understanding the difference between discomfort & pain, & lots more! [[]---[]]   Chasing Excellence is an audience-supported project. To go deeper & to help us do even more, consider: · Subscribing to our newsletter to get our free posts and upgrading...

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.) [[]---[]]   Chasing Excellence is an audience-supported project. To go deeper & to help us do even more, consider: · Subscribing to our newsletter to get our free pos...

Michael Jordan didn't pay Tim Grover to be his trainer. He paid our guest to not be anybody else's trainer. The author of the new book, Winning, joins us to talk about why showing up is not half the battle and so much more. [[]---[]]   Chasing Excellence is an audience-supported project. To go deeper & to help us do even more, consider: · Subscribing to our newsletter to get our free posts and...

This rendition of our 3x3 has us talking through tips for creating useful BHAGs in our businesses and lives, ways to remember that we're all going to die, and my recommendations for improving mobility. [[]---[]]   Chasing Excellence is an audience-supported project. To go deeper & to help us do even more, consider: · Subscribing to our newsletter to get our free posts and upgrading to our Chas...

We've got some more great questions on this month's 2:00 Drill. We're talking through low intensity for CrossFitters, constructing a useful warm-up, what to say to an athlete right before a performance, and more! [[]---[]]   Chasing Excellence is an audience-supported project. To go deeper & to help us do even more, consider: · Subscribing to our newsletter to get our free posts and upgrading...

Peter Rahal co-founded RXBar inside of a Chicago CrossFit gym, eventually selling to Kelloggs. He joins us to talk about the original vision of the business, the power of dyslexia, building culture, and the messy process of figuring out what's next. [[]---[]]   Chasing Excellence is an audience-supported project. To go deeper & to help us do even more, consider: · Subscribing to our newsletter...