Chasing Excellence

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1. Say This Before You Want to Quit

   5 november 2026 · 12 min

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   We're exploring how to mentally survive an endurance challenge so long and grueling that it can swallow your identity before you even begin. Lees meer

   By breaking a daunting event into a beginning, middle, and end - and leaning on simple mantras instead of staring down a finish line six hours away - we build awareness of what's actually happening in the moment, intention around pace and fueling, and the action to keep moving when doubt and drift creep in.

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   About the Hosts

   Patrick Cummings is the author of two kids' books and has been building and making things inside the health and fitness world for two decades. Find him on Instagram.

   Ben Bergeron is the founder of CompTrain, a longtime gym owner and coach, and the author of the bestselling book, Chasing Excellence. Find him on Instagram.

   About the Show

   Chasing Excellence is a show dedicated to the daily pursuit of health, happiness, and living with our hearts on fire. Episodes drop Monday through Friday.

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2. Rewrite The Belief, Rewrite The Result

   4 november 2026 · 13 min

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   We're exploring how our beliefs quietly set the ceiling on our actions - and why shifting what we believe is possible might matter more than any strategy we chase. Lees meer

   By tracing our results back through our actions to the beliefs underneath them, we build awareness of what's actually driving our outcomes, intention around which beliefs deserve to be rewritten, and action that moves us toward a life of health, happiness, and purpose - instead of drift, dissatisfaction, and disease.

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   About the Hosts

   Patrick Cummings is the author of two kids' books and has been building and making things inside the health and fitness world for two decades. Find him on Instagram.

   Ben Bergeron is the founder of CompTrain, a longtime gym owner and coach, and the author of the bestselling book, Chasing Excellence. Find him on Instagram.

   About the Show

   Chasing Excellence is a show dedicated to the daily pursuit of health, happiness, and living with our hearts on fire. Episodes drop Monday through Friday.

   See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

3. Right Now, You're Good

   3 november 2026 · 13 min

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   We're answering a listener's question about letting go of anger after being wronged, without slipping into a victim mindset that keeps us stuck in the past. Lees meer

   By leaning on the awareness-intention-action framework and honestly asking ourselves whether we have a problem right now, we build the circle-of-control muscle that turns injustice into acceptance instead of resentment.

   We also carry that same reframe - right now, you're good - into training and everyday inconveniences, trading catastrophizing self-talk for the steady, present-focused thinking that fuels a life of health, happiness, and purpose.

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   About the Hosts

   Patrick Cummings is the author of two kids' books and has been building and making things inside the health and fitness world for two decades. Find him on Instagram.

   Ben Bergeron is the founder of CompTrain, a longtime gym owner and coach, and the author of the bestselling book, Chasing Excellence. Find him on Instagram.

   About the Show

   Chasing Excellence is a show dedicated to the daily pursuit of health, happiness, and living with our hearts on fire. Episodes drop Monday through Friday.

   See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

4. The Confidence to Temporarily Train Less

   2 november 2026 · 7 min

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   We're answering a listener's question about staying consistent with training during a temporary stretch of long commutes and packed days. Lees meer

   Instead of forcing early wake-ups or risking sleep to hit normal training volume, we explore how to build awareness around what's actually controllable, intention around shorter, focused sessions, and action that still moves us toward a life of health, happiness, and purpose - even when the season makes consistency harder.

   The confidence to temporarily do less, done well, keeps us moving forward instead of drifting into giving up altogether.

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   About the Hosts

   Patrick Cummings is the author of two kids' books and has been building and making things inside the health and fitness world for two decades. Find him on Instagram.

   Ben Bergeron is the founder of CompTrain, a longtime gym owner and coach, and the author of the bestselling book, Chasing Excellence. Find him on Instagram.

   About the Show

   Chasing Excellence is a show dedicated to the daily pursuit of health, happiness, and living with our hearts on fire. Episodes drop Monday through Friday.

   See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

5. Excellence Is a Direction, Not a Destination

   30 oktober 2026 · 25 min

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   We're exploring how to replace vague dissatisfaction with real clarity - naming not just who we're becoming, but who we refuse to become, and the values that guide the thousands of small decisions in between. Lees meer

   Writing it down turns awareness into direction: once vision, anti-vision, and values are on paper, every day gives us something to measure our choices against, instead of drifting toward a life we never consciously chose.

   We're building a practice that trades busyness and drift for intention and action, one small decision at a time, on the way to a life of health, happiness, and a heart that's on fire.

   Read the original essay here.

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   About the Hosts

   Patrick Cummings is the author of two kids' books and has been building and making things inside the health and fitness world for two decades. Find him on Instagram.

   Ben Bergeron is the founder of CompTrain, a longtime gym owner and coach, and the author of the bestselling book, Chasing Excellence. Find him on Instagram.

   About the Show

   Chasing Excellence is a show dedicated to the daily pursuit of health, happiness, and living with our hearts on fire. Episodes drop Monday through Friday.

   See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

6. Turn Idle Time Into Mobility Time

   29 oktober 2026 · 11 min

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   We're digging into a listener question about why mobility and maintenance work is so easy to skip and so hard to prioritize. Lees meer

   By treating joint and soft tissue care as something we fold into time we already have - not time we have to find - we build the awareness to spot missed opportunities, the intention to make mobility a daily default, and the action that keeps us moving well and out ahead of the drift, stiffness, and breakdown that come with neglect.

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   About the Hosts

   Patrick Cummings is the author of two kids' books and has been building and making things inside the health and fitness world for two decades. Find him on Instagram.

   Ben Bergeron is the founder of CompTrain, a longtime gym owner and coach, and the author of the bestselling book, Chasing Excellence. Find him on Instagram.

   About the Show

   Chasing Excellence is a show dedicated to the daily pursuit of health, happiness, and living with our hearts on fire. Episodes drop Monday through Friday.

   See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

7. The Quiet Side of Toughness

   28 oktober 2026 · 16 min

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   We're exploring how real toughness isn't always about how much pain we can absorb - it's sometimes about restraint, facing down our own instincts instead of giving in to them. Lees meer

   With longtime weightlifting coach and author Sean Waxman, we build awareness around the small, unglamorous choices - going to bed on time, making the bed, having the hard conversation - that quietly decide the direction of our lives.

   Naming that choice is what moves us from drift toward intention and action, and toward a life of health, happiness, and purpose.

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   About the Hosts

   Patrick Cummings is the author of two kids' books and has been building and making things inside the health and fitness world for two decades. Find him on Instagram.

   Ben Bergeron is the founder of CompTrain, a longtime gym owner and coach, and the author of the bestselling book, Chasing Excellence. Find him on Instagram.

   About the Show

   Chasing Excellence is a show dedicated to the daily pursuit of health, happiness, and living with our hearts on fire. Episodes drop Monday through Friday.

   See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

8. Returning to the Gym After Injury

   27 oktober 2026 · 7 min

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   We're answering a question from a Chase Club member about returning to CrossFit after a serious wrist injury, three months away from training, and at 72 years old. Lees meer

   We explore why the goal isn't to get back to where you were, but to start building your next level of fitness - meeting today's body, today's pain, and today's limitations with patience instead of judgment.

   This is about choosing awareness over comparison, intention over rushing, and action that meets you where you actually are, rather than where you used to be.

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   About the Hosts

   Patrick Cummings is the author of two kids’ books and has been building and making things inside the health and fitness world for two decades. Find him on Instagram.

   Ben Bergeron is the founder of CompTrain, a longtime gym owner and coach, and the author of the bestselling book, Chasing Excellence. Find him on Instagram.

   About the Show

   Chasing Excellence is a show dedicated to the daily pursuit of health, happiness, and living with our hearts on fire. Episodes drop Monday through Friday.

   See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

9. Behind the Scenes of CrossFit’s Chaotic Formative Years (w/ Calum Marsh)

   26 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 2 min

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   We're sitting down with author Calum Marsh to trace the untold, complicated story behind CrossFit's rise - from Greg Glassman's fifteen quiet years before anyone noticed to the open-source meritocracy that quietly hardened into something closer to a religion. Lees meer

   We dig into how a genuinely brilliant idea can be undone by the very people a leader keeps closest, and we revisit the line that gave this show its name - chase excellence and the money follows; chase the money and you lose both.

   By holding up CrossFit's full story, the good and the ugly, we build the awareness to spot our own blind spots, the intention to protect the people willing to tell us the truth, and the action to keep choosing excellence over drift in our own lives.

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   About the Hosts

   Patrick Cummings is the author of two kids' books and has been building and making things inside the health and fitness world for two decades. Find him on Instagram.

   Ben Bergeron is the founder of CompTrain, a longtime gym owner and coach, and the author of the bestselling book, Chasing Excellence. Find him on Instagram.

   About the Show

   Chasing Excellence is a show dedicated to the daily pursuit of health, happiness, and living with our hearts on fire. Episodes drop Monday through Friday.

   See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

10. Stop Doing Health, Start Being Healthy

    23 oktober 2026 · 15 min

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    We're revisiting the difference between doing health and being healthy - the gap between the supplements, gadgets, and biohacks we chase and the simple, sustainable fundamentals that actually move the needle. Lees meer

    By naming that distraction out loud, we build awareness around what's essential versus what's just noise, intention around sleep, food, training, mindset, and relationships, and action that turns a few degrees of change into a completely different life - one built on health, happiness, and purpose instead of drift, dissatisfaction, and disease.

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    About the Hosts

    Patrick Cummings is the author of two kids’ books and has been building and making things inside the health and fitness world for two decades. Find him on Instagram.

    Ben Bergeron is the founder of CompTrain, a longtime gym owner and coach, and the author of the bestselling book, Chasing Excellence. Find him on Instagram.

    About the Show

    Chasing Excellence is a show dedicated to the daily pursuit of health, happiness, and living with our hearts on fire. Episodes drop Monday through Friday.

    See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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