Chasing Excellence: A Story About Building the World’s Fittest Athletes by Ben Bergeron

Author:Ben Bergeron
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lioncrest Publishing
Published: 2017-07-18T22:00:00+00:00

Notice that there’s nothing in there about winning, nothing about scores, nothing about personal records. Actually, since we began working together, we’ve never talked about winning the CrossFit Games. Never once has the subject been uttered.

We choose to focus on what’s inside our control, and what we can control is exactly what she defined as success. It’s what we can focus on this day, this hour, this minute. We can work into each and every moment with every ounce of effort and personal grit we can muster. In doing that, we’re truly successful in each moment. Results, when you live and work that way, are a foregone conclusion.

The flip side, the opposite mindset, would put us in a place where success would be determined by Katrín’s performance during one single week in July. The preceding fifty-one weeks are just hoping we can make success happen, and we have no idea where we stand. Her entire year, and her whole measure of value, riding on five days in July is not a great way to experience your best. The pressure of those five days would be mentally insurmountable. For Katrín, the pressure she feels when faced with an event at the Games that’s not in her wheelhouse, like the Squat Clean Pyramid, is exactly the same as the pressure of any other day. She simply gives all she has, in each and every moment.

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