Chasing Excellence

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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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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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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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.

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.

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.
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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.

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.