Chasing Excellence

We're diving back into our conversation about the future of CompTrain, talking this week about our Elite athlete experience, what we'll look for in future Dev Team members, and what the Training Academy will one day look like. [[]---[]]   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...

What is the CompTrain Academy? That's the big question we're answering this week. I'm talking about the origins of the idea, why it wouldn't have happened without a change in CrossFit's ownership and a new CEO at CompTrain. [[]---[]]   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...

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. [[]---[]]   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...

With so many people talking about how to chase excellence, it can be hard to continue moving forward when it feels like there's still so much left to figure out. Here are the strategies that have helped me keep perspective. [[]---[]]   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...

We're giving this new episode format a second go this week, talking through 14 random questions like where Lebron James might place at the CrossFit Games, what old person things that we do, pet peeves, and 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 upgrad...

Greg Everett is the founder of Catalyst Athletics and the author of the new book, "Tough." In this conversation, we dive into pursuing toughness by developing our character, our capability, our capacity, and our commitment. [[]---[]]   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...

We're reaching back into the grab bag of your questions for this month's 2:00 Drill, talking about helping kids with mindset, scaling businesses, my thoughts on the value of hypertrophy training alongside CrossFit, 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 an...

Steven Kotler is the author of 13 books, including "The Rise of Superman." His newest book, "The Art of Impossible" is a deep dive into how to achieve peak performance, and is out now. [[]---[]]   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 Chase Club to receive...

We're always getting questions about the books, movies, and podcasts we've enjoyed lately - so this week we're doing a 3x3 to help fill your bookshelves, Netflix queues, & Spotify playlists. All links are in the show notes! [[]---[]]   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...

Is the advice to "just do what makes you happy" a bad strategy? That's what we're talking about today, diving into what creates fulfillment, why we have to be careful about always opting for "fun," and loving the process. [[]---[]]   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 u...

The 2:00 Drill is back this week, answering your questions about discipline and consistency, why I no longer do certain movements in my training, and my advice for how to work with and lead "sled dogs." [[]---[]]   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 Cha...

We're testing out a new (fun?) show format this week called 10 Questions. Patrick and I share our answers to a handful of random questions, including popular things that are annoying and the most underrated CrossFit athletes. [[]---[]]   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...

Do you need to develop a killer instinct to get to the top of your chosen sport or profession? That's what we're talking about today, diving into my hierarchy of mindset and the 80/20 rule for tapping into the dark side. [[]---[]]   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 up...

In this month's rendition of the 3x3, I'm tackling not obvious things to do before opening a gym, lead more effectively, and ways to develop more of a growth mindset. [[]---[]]   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 Chase Club to receive exclusive content...

Back at the 2:00 Drill this week, answering your questions about the importance of heart rate, how to work with clients who aren't bought in, how Katrin overcame her back injury, and 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 to our Chase Club t...

This week, I'm breaking down the five traits all coaches need to strengthen to be effective: enthusiasm, curiosity, empathy, confidence, and subject matter expertise. [[]---[]]   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 Chase Club to receive exclusive content...

We're back at our 3x3 this week, talking self-fulfilling prophesies that don't serve us, ways to enter into difficult conversations, and the lessons I've learned the hard way. [[]---[]]   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 Chase Club to receive exclusiv...

What would I do if granted the ability to design and implement a high school health curriculum? That's the hypothetical we're talking about today, covering the different ways I'd introduce the Five Factors to the students. [[]---[]]   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...

We're home from the 2020 CrossFit Games and have lots of thoughts, hope for the future, and work to do. Here's my recap of our time out in Aromas. [[]---[]]   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 Chase Club to receive exclusive content. · Grabbing one of...

Author James Clear joins us this week to talk about opportunity costs, why reading is such a valuable habit, and why entrepreneurship is such a powerful engine of personal growth. [[]---[]]   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 Chase Club to receive excl...

We're jumping back into your questions this week, covering things like training for the CrossFit Games as a teen, how to warm-up for an early-morning workout, and the advice I hear all the time that I think is bad. [[]---[]]   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 upgradin...

Reflecting on the last six months of being in lockdown, today we're talking about being a realist, what to do when we're surrounded by negativity, and balancing being in the moment and anticipating the future. [[]---[]]   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...

I recently joined Greg McKeown on the Essentialism podcast, where we talked about measuring the most important things, learning about my leadership biases, and editing our lives to be sure there's space for the essential few. Here's our conversation. [[]---[]]   Chasing Excellence is an audience-supported project. To go deeper & to help us do even more, consider: · Subscribing to our newslette...

Post Stage 1 of the 2020 CrossFit Games, we're talking about the lessons I'm taking away from the weekend, the benchmarks I'd use to assess an athlete's capacity, and what I'm anticipating for the future of the sport. [[]---[]]   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 upgra...

There are best practices that every CrossFit coach can use to make their classes more professional and more effective. They include things like starting workouts better, not making eye contact, and using too many filler words. [[]---[]]   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...