Chasing Excellence
- Episódios
- 562
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- Último episódio
- 13 nov 2026
Sobre o podcast
Most people aren't stuck because they lack information. They're stuck because they know what to do and can't quite do it consistently. The slow drift keeps winning.
Chasing Excellence is for people who are already trying — working out, eating well, staying positive — but find themselves in the one-good-week, one-bad-week cycle.
Ben Bergeron, Patrick Cummings, and a crew of authors, thinkers, and doers explore the five factors of health — how we eat, move, think, connect, and rest — and what it actually takes to crowd out the drift and build the life you keep almost living.
New episodes every Monday and Thursday.
Beyond the podcast: the Chase Club brings together a crew for daily lessons, monthly challenges, and the real work of crowding out the drift. The ChaseTracker app helps you track the Five Factors daily.
Episódios 562
How to Actually Define Your Core Values
We're digging into how to actually stress-test our core values instead of just naming nice-sounding words on a wall.With author Robert Glazer, we work through the exercises and questions that separate real …
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We're digging into how to actually stress-test our core values instead of just naming nice-sounding words on a wall.
With author Robert Glazer, we work through the exercises and questions that separate real non-negotiables from vague aspirations - the kind that only reveal themselves when they're violated.
That clarity becomes a tool for awareness, intention, and action: knowing exactly what we stand for before drift forces us to decide in the moment.
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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.
Model a Life People Want to Move Toward
We're revisiting a conversation between Jamison and Athena Perez about the gap between what we say we believe and how we actually treat people when no one's watching.We explore how shaming someone into change …
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We're revisiting a conversation between Jamison and Athena Perez about the gap between what we say we believe and how we actually treat people when no one's watching.
We explore how shaming someone into change only pushes them further from the door, while living with visible integrity - care, consistency, and genuine joy - pulls people toward a better life instead.
By closing the gap between our public values and our private behavior, we build awareness of our blind spots, intention around how we show up for others, and action that draws people toward health, happiness, and purpose rather than shame, judgment, and drift.
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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.
What to Do Before You Start a Business
We're unpacking what it actually looks like to prepare for a business we can't start yet - using the months before we have land, capital, or customers to test the real model instead of just dreaming about …
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We're unpacking what it actually looks like to prepare for a business we can't start yet - using the months before we have land, capital, or customers to test the real model instead of just dreaming about it.
Drawing from a listener's question about building an organic-garden and teaching business from the ground up, we talk through why passion alone doesn't guarantee a sustainable business, and how running small, real experiments now beats waiting for someday.
It's a conversation about grounding ambition in reality - building awareness of what the numbers actually say, intention around the specific tests worth running today, and action that turns a someday dream into something we can actually sustain, instead of one more good idea left to drift.
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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.
Telling Ourselves Better Stories
We're exploring the mindset continuum - the spectrum that runs from a victim mindset through pessimist, optimist, and realist, all the way to a competitor's mindset.We dig into why the stories we tell ourselves …
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We're exploring the mindset continuum - the spectrum that runs from a victim mindset through pessimist, optimist, and realist, all the way to a competitor's mindset.
We dig into why the stories we tell ourselves shape how we experience hardship, and how becoming aware of which story we're telling is the first step toward moving up the continuum.
By training ourselves to meet adversity like a competitor looking for a worthy challenge, we build the awareness, intention, and action that move us toward a life of health, happiness, and purpose - and away from 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.
Zone 2 Training Isn't Magic, It's a Tool
We're breaking down zone 2 training - what it actually does physiologically, why elite endurance athletes build so much of their programming around it, and where it fits for the rest of us who aren't training …
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We're breaking down zone 2 training - what it actually does physiologically, why elite endurance athletes build so much of their programming around it, and where it fits for the rest of us who aren't training for a marathon or an ultra.
We're exploring the difference between what elite endurance athletes need and what builds real, well-rounded fitness for life - strength, mobility, speed, and the ability to move without pain - not just more time in an easy heart rate zone.
By treating zone two as one tool among many rather than the whole plan, we build awareness of what actually serves our training, intention around using it wisely, and action toward a life of health, happiness, and purpose - instead of drifting toward whatever's trending.
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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.
Create a Clear, Compelling Vision For Your Life
We're building a clear and compelling vision for our lives - pulling apart values, purpose, mission, and the one big audacious goal that ties them together.By getting specific about what we want our days to …
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We're building a clear and compelling vision for our lives - pulling apart values, purpose, mission, and the one big audacious goal that ties them together.
By getting specific about what we want our days to actually look like, not just what we want to have, we build awareness around what matters most to us, intention around the pieces that make a vision real, and action toward a life of health, happiness, and purpose - instead of drifting into another year without a clear direction.
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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.
Say This Before You Want to Quit
We're exploring how to mentally survive an endurance challenge so long and grueling that it can swallow your identity before you even begin.By breaking a daunting event into a beginning, middle, and end - and …
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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.
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.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Rewrite The Belief, Rewrite The Result
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.By tracing our results back through our actions …
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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.
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.
Right Now, You're Good
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.By leaning on the awareness-intention-action framework …
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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.
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.
The Confidence to Temporarily Train Less
We're answering a listener's question about staying consistent with training during a temporary stretch of long commutes and packed days.Instead of forcing early wake-ups or risking sleep to hit normal training …
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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.
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.
Excellence Is a Direction, Not a Destination
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 …
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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.
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.
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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.
Turn Idle Time Into Mobility Time
We're digging into a listener question about why mobility and maintenance work is so easy to skip and so hard to prioritize.By treating joint and soft tissue care as something we fold into time we already have …
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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.
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.
The Quiet Side of Toughness
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.With longtime weightlifting coach …
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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.
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.
Returning to the Gym After Injury
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.We explore why the goal isn't to get back to …
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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.
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.
Behind the Scenes of CrossFit’s Chaotic Formative Years (w/ Calum Marsh)
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 …
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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.
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.
Stop Doing Health, Start Being Healthy
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.By …
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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.
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.
Why Essentialism Really Means Embracing Trade-Offs
We're talking about Greg McKeown’s concept of Essentialism, exploring how choosing one clear focus over a dozen scattered priorities creates outsized results.Trade-offs aren't something to escape — they're how …
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We're talking about Greg McKeown’s concept of Essentialism, exploring how choosing one clear focus over a dozen scattered priorities creates outsized results.
Trade-offs aren't something to escape — they're how we build awareness of what matters most, set intention around where our limited energy goes, and take action that compounds instead of dilutes.
This isn't about emptying the calendar or chasing balance for its own sake - it's about filling our days with the few things we're truly unwilling to sacrifice, on the way to a life of health, happiness, and a heart that's on fire.
🎯 Learn more about our Focus Challenge 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.
Train Your Brain Like You Train Your Body
We're revisiting a conversation with best-selling author Cal Newport on cognitive health and exploring what happens when we treat our attention like an all-you-can-eat buffet of ultra-processed content.We build …
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We're revisiting a conversation with best-selling author Cal Newport on cognitive health and exploring what happens when we treat our attention like an all-you-can-eat buffet of ultra-processed content.
We build awareness around the gap between casual scrolling and true cognitive exercise, intention around cutting out what Cal calls "ultra-processed content," and action toward deep reading and focused thinking that build a life of health, happiness, and purpose - instead of the drift and mental fatigue that comes from consuming whatever the algorithm serves up.
🎯 Learn more about our Focus Challenge 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.
Track Phone Pickups, Not Screen Time
We're exploring why counting how many times we pick up our phone each day matters more than tracking total screen time.By paying attention to that one number — and setting a realistic weekly limit instead of …
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We're exploring why counting how many times we pick up our phone each day matters more than tracking total screen time.
By paying attention to that one number — and setting a realistic weekly limit instead of chasing zero — we build awareness of where our time, energy, attention, and money actually go, and we take action toward investing our focus in a life of health, happiness, and purpose, rather than letting it drift away one pickup at a time.
🎯 Learn more about our Focus Challenge 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.
The Practice of Noticing in a Busy Life
We're talking with installation artist Christina Watka, to explore the quiet practice of noticing — meeting life as it is, without judgment, right in the middle of the noise and chaos of raising young …
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We're talking with installation artist Christina Watka, to explore the quiet practice of noticing — meeting life as it is, without judgment, right in the middle of the noise and chaos of raising young kids.
Noticing sharpens our awareness of what's actually in front of us, builds the intention to slow down instead of letting ego fill the silence, and moves us toward action rooted in presence rather than distraction - away from the drift of rushing past our own lives.
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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.
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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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Two Daily Habits for More Focused Days
We're exploring two practices that turn scattered effort into focused work - planning the day before it starts, and reviewing it before it ends.By building our plan around what actually matters and asking five …
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We're exploring two practices that turn scattered effort into focused work - planning the day before it starts, and reviewing it before it ends.
By building our plan around what actually matters and asking five honest questions at the close of each day, we create awareness around how we're actually spending our time, intention around what deserves our focus, and action toward days that move us toward health, happiness, and purpose.
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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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Dopamine Culture Is Quietly Hijacking Your Focus
We're exploring Ted Gioia's idea of "dopamine culture" — how so many parts of life have drifted from slow, traditional pursuits through faster, modern versions into addictive, bite-sized hits of instant …
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We're exploring Ted Gioia's idea of "dopamine culture" — how so many parts of life have drifted from slow, traditional pursuits through faster, modern versions into addictive, bite-sized hits of instant gratification.
By naming where our attention actually goes versus where we want it to go, we build awareness of that pull, intention to protect the slower pursuits that actually fulfill us, and action toward a life of health, happiness, and purpose—instead of drifting into distraction and dissatisfaction.
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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.
You Can't Unsee This Food Insanity
We're exploring why our modern food environment is insane - and why once you see it, you can't unsee it.With our friend EC Synkowski, author of A Good Nutrition Book, we build awareness around how …
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We're exploring why our modern food environment is insane - and why once you see it, you can't unsee it.
With our friend EC Synkowski, author of A Good Nutrition Book, we build awareness around how ultra-processed foods are engineered to be everywhere and impossible to escape.
From there, we build intention around the choices that are actually within our control, and action toward a life of health, happiness, and purpose - instead of drifting toward 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.
You Don't Have to Quit to Feel Fulfilled
We're exploring how to find real fulfillment inside a job that already gives us balance and security, without needing to blow it all up for something new.By treating our work as a calling instead of just a …
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We're exploring how to find real fulfillment inside a job that already gives us balance and security, without needing to blow it all up for something new.
By treating our work as a calling instead of just a career, we build awareness around what's already working, intention around where we point our energy, and action toward a life of health, happiness, and purpose - even when the job we have isn't the one we imagined when we picture "meaningful work."
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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.
How to Know When to Change Course
We're exploring how to tell the difference between a challenge worth pushing through and a misalignment worth walking away from.By anchoring the decision in whether our values are actually aligned, we build …
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We're exploring how to tell the difference between a challenge worth pushing through and a misalignment worth walking away from.
By anchoring the decision in whether our values are actually aligned, we build awareness around what's really driving our discomfort, intention around when to work on our mindset versus make a real change, and action toward a life of health, happiness, and purpose - even when that change feels abrupt or uncertain.
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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.
Why Discomfort Means You're Growing (Not Failing)
We're revisiting a favorite conversation with Trevor Ragan to unpack his simple equation for discomfort: caring plus uncertainty.When we treat that discomfort as proof we're on the wrong path, we shrink from …
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We're revisiting a favorite conversation with Trevor Ragan to unpack his simple equation for discomfort: caring plus uncertainty.
When we treat that discomfort as proof we're on the wrong path, we shrink from the exact challenges that build us - but when we see it as a signal that the work matters, we turn it into fuel for growth.
We're building the awareness to name what we're feeling, the intention to reframe it as a rep instead of a red flag, and the action to keep showing up for a life of health, happiness, and purpose instead of drift.
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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.
Am I Building Grit Or Burning Out?
We're exploring how to know whether we're building grit or slipping toward burnout when life leaves almost no room for training.By understanding allostatic load and finding our minimum effective dose, we build …
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We're exploring how to know whether we're building grit or slipping toward burnout when life leaves almost no room for training.
By understanding allostatic load and finding our minimum effective dose, we build awareness of what our body and season of life can actually handle, intention around protecting the training we truly enjoy, and action that turns limited time into real progress - without letting drift and exhaustion win.
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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.
Life Is a Frisbee Balanced on a Pencil
We're exploring why we can't maximize every goal at once, and how picturing life as a Frisbee balanced on a pencil - instead of a seesaw - changes the way we chase what matters.By identifying the 20% of effort …
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We're exploring why we can't maximize every goal at once, and how picturing life as a Frisbee balanced on a pencil - instead of a seesaw - changes the way we chase what matters.
By identifying the 20% of effort that drives 80% of the results across our health, work, and relationships, we build awareness of where we're overextending, intention around the handful of things worth our full focus, and action toward a life of health, happiness, and purpose - instead of the exhausting pursuit of having it all that leaves us drifting and dissatisfied.
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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.
Person First, Process Second, Goal Third
We're exploring how to pursue ambitious goals without making our identity dependent on the outcome.By placing the person and the process ahead of the goal, we build awareness around what we can control …
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We're exploring how to pursue ambitious goals without making our identity dependent on the outcome.
By placing the person and the process ahead of the goal, we build awareness around what we can control, intention around the habits and character traits we want to practice, and action toward a life of health, happiness, and purpose - even when reality doesn't match our expectations.
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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.
Why Chasing Excellence Is Going Daily
We're kicking off an October Experiment, a shift from one longer weekly episode to short, daily episodes every weekday.Today, we explore why this change matters: showing up with something short to think about …
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We're kicking off an October Experiment, a shift from one longer weekly episode to short, daily episodes every weekday.
Today, we explore why this change matters: showing up with something short to think about each day keeps us focused on today's choices, instead of waiting for one big leap forward.
By building this habit of daily attention, we hope to help you build awareness around the small decisions that add up, intention around showing up consistently, and action toward a life of health, happiness, and purpose—instead of drifting through another week waiting for change to happen all at once.
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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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