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 inst...
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Chasing Excellence
Chasing Excellence is a show dedicated to dissecting what it means to live a life of excellence, both inside the gym & out. On each episode, we'll deep dive on various aspects of being an at...
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20 of 550 episodesReturning 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 trainin...
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 quie...
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...
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...
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 attent...
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...
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...
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 e...
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 fast...
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, autho...
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...
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 anchorin...
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 tr...
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 understa...
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 - c...
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 ah...
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 wh...
Why Smart People Keep Outsourcing Their Diet to Strangers (w/ EC Synkowski)
What if the problem with your diet isn't discipline — it's that you've never learned to think for yourself about food? In this episode, our...
Forever Fit | Why Your Fitness Feels Stalled (And Why That's Normal)
Plateaus, leaderboards, and the real reason most people stop making progress in the gym — we answer the questions you've been too afraid to...