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by Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
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.
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- Yesterday17 min
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 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.Keep Going🐾 Start your Free Trial of the ChaseTracker App❤️🔥 Free Newsletter & the Chase ClubReach Out✋🏼 What questions do you have for us?💬 Got feedback? Send Patrick a DM.About the HostsPatrick 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 ShowChasing 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.
- 2 days ago12 min
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 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.Keep Going🐾 Start your Free Trial of the ChaseTracker App❤️🔥 Free Newsletter & the Chase ClubReach Out✋🏼 What questions do you have for us?💬 Got feedback? Send Patrick a DM.About the HostsPatrick 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 ShowChasing 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 days ago12 min
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 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.Keep Going🐾 Start your Free Trial of the ChaseTracker App❤️🔥 Free Newsletter & the Chase ClubReach Out✋🏼 What questions do you have for us?💬 Got feedback? Send Patrick a DM.About the HostsPatrick 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 ShowChasing 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 days ago13 min
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 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.Keep Going🐾 Start your Free Trial of the ChaseTracker App❤️🔥 Free Newsletter & the Chase ClubReach Out✋🏼 What questions do you have for us?💬 Got feedback? Send Patrick a DM.About the HostsPatrick 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 ShowChasing 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 days ago6 min
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 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.Keep Going🐾 Start your Free Trial of the ChaseTracker App❤️🔥 Free Newsletter & the Chase ClubReach Out✋🏼 What questions do you have for us?💬 Got feedback? Send Patrick a DM.About the HostsPatrick 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 ShowChasing 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.
- 1 weeks ago25 min
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 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.Read the original essay here.Keep Going🐾 Start your Free Trial of the ChaseTracker App❤️🔥 Free Newsletter & the Chase ClubReach Out✋🏼 What questions do you have for us?💬 Got feedback? Send Patrick a DM.About the HostsPatrick 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 ShowChasing 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.
- 1 weeks ago11 min
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 - 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.Keep Going🐾 Start your Free Trial of the ChaseTracker App❤️🔥 Free Newsletter & the Chase ClubReach Out✋🏼 What questions do you have for us?💬 Got feedback? Send Patrick a DM.About the HostsPatrick 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 ShowChasing 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.
- 1 weeks ago16 min
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 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.Keep Going🐾 Start your Free Trial of the ChaseTracker App❤️🔥 Free Newsletter & the Chase ClubReach Out✋🏼 What questions do you have for us?💬 Got feedback? Send Patrick a DM.About the HostsPatrick 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 ShowChasing 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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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.
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