Top 97 Quotes & Sayings by Rich Froning Jr.
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Your body is an amazing machine that adapts to just about anything. If you're constantly changing what your body needs to adapt to, it's amazing what your body can do.
I truly think the secret to the effectiveness of CrossFit is the community side of it: People suffer together, accomplish together, and support each other along the way.
I'm a Detroit fan in everything pro and I'm a Notre Dame fan in college.
Faith, family, and fitness - that's the order I try to keep things in.
One of the pillar ideas of how CrossFit thinks of physical fitness is how competent an individual is at cardiovascular/respiratory endurance, stamina, strength, flexibility, power, speed, coordination, accuracy, agility, and balance.
With intermittent fasting, I don't really eat breakfast. My eating window is 12:30-8:30 P. M. I eat for eight hours and then fast for 16.
The movements we do are complex but natural, they're picking stuff up off the ground, running, jumping, climbing - stuff that we were made to do, that we were created to do.
I've always worn my wedding band when I'm working out. A few years ago I realized how dangerous wearing a metal band could be and switched to silicone.
It's kind of a negative connotation that CrossFit gets. It's all dependent on the person and it has to be scaled accordingly.
I was a strength coach for over a year where our teams used CrossFit, and our football team won their first conference championship in 36 years!
Definitely stick with a program for more than a week or too. You've got to ride the program out - a lot of people like to hop around on things, but to get a real good base you've got to stick to a good strength program.
I love apple pie. If I see one, I'm going to eat the whole thing.
I want my kids to understand that when family needs something, I'm there. And, on a different note, all three of my kids are adopted.
Hard work is just something that my parents, when I was young, they made sure that we knew what hard work was and that it was okay to work hard and okay to sweat.
Luckily, I found CrossFit. I do a lot more legs now - that's for sure.
Swimming helps with recovery a ton.
Everyone always asks if I'm going to 'make my kids do CrossFit.' I'll never make them do anything. I will, however, make sure that they're physically active in some way, that they'll play some type of sport or do gymnastics or dance or something.
For anyone beginning CrossFit I would say find a local affiliate and get there. They have coaches and a community set up.
I don't take rest days.
Your body's an amazing machine and it's created to do stuff. See what you can get out of it.
Me and my cousin started doing CrossFit in my barn; I haven't looked back since.
In the morning, before my usual larger training session, I won't eat or drink anything before but water.
Everyone wants to look good, but with CrossFit you get so much more besides looking good.
I eat a lot of peanut butter and drink a lot of whole milk.
CrossFit is a very humbling sport and you can be really good at something and look like an idiot doing another movement. It's a nasty thing, but it makes it a little more fun.
I worked with a chiropractor who does some manual therapy, some acupuncture. The big thing is to do something on a regular basis, rather than waiting to get hurt.
I don't really document how many calories I eat or anything like that. I try to listen to my body.
I've got three kids, so there's not much downtime.
When I started out, nutrition wasn't a huge thing in my arsenal. Getting older, I'm getting a little smarter, thinking about longevity.
Every time I compete, I still get nervous. There are the nerves that are because 'oh this is really going to hurt,' then there's the, 'I have to go fast and I don't know how fast everyone else is going to go,' nerves.
I am a big supporter of the CrossFit community and enjoy helping people gain a better understanding of the CrossFit style of workouts.
I always enjoyed the training part of baseball. I went to play college baseball and decided it wasn't for me.
I think CrossFit is highly beneficial to any athlete, in any sport.
Enjoy the hard days, not every day is going to be fun but the days that are hard is when you get better.
I worked in a factory for six months and was a firefighter in Cookeville for several years. They paid my tuition, and I got a lot of life experience during that time that helped me grow up.
I don't really have a routine. I make it up on the fly, or whatever feels right, I'll do.
The problem I used to have is that I would eat in the morning, get busy training, and then maybe I'd have a shake or two throughout the day, but I wouldn't really eat anything. Then, at night, I would just kind of eat a larger meal or two, but by my second training session, I was usually kind of beat up or worn down.
I loved CrossFit before I even competed, I was just doing CrossFit. It was a completely different thing. You learn a lot about yourself and the people around you when you do it.
I'm completely of the opinion that anybody can do CrossFit.
I want my kids to understand that hard work is essential and that I wouldn't have them do anything that I wouldn't do with them.
I like coming home because nobody knows who I am. In Cookville, I'm Rich. I'm not a big deal. People like Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, they just can't live a normal life and you do feel sorry for those guys.
It's not even necessarily the will or want to win. It's the shame and embarrassment of losing.
My gift from God has been my talent, my genetics, and the people around me.
I use CrossFit to glorify God with the talents he's given.
I take protein and amino acid supplements, but I honestly don't know if they do anything.
Yes, when you win once, you feel you can do it again.
I put Christ first and everything else fell into place.
People get injured everyday doing simple things. The problem comes sometimes when people crank up the intensity on skilled movements before they are ready.
Sleep is huge for me. I don't set an alarm. I just wake up when I wake up.
Don't think about the 50 reps ahead of you, just the next 5.
I've been to CrossFit affiliates all over the world and the programming varies, the coaches are different, but it feels the same. Always welcoming, always fun. Whereas with a regular gym you go in, put your headphones on and don't talk to anybody.
I'm one of 32 first cousins on my mom's side, and 25 of us are boys.
It's how many times you get back up that defines you.
What I realized was that CrossFit wasn't what defined me as a human being, it was the sacrifice that Christ made for me and all of us that defined who I was.
The guys I work out with used to have a thing where if we didn't read our Bibles for 10 minutes a day we'd have to do burpees. By now we just figure everyone's doing the reading!
I eat a bowl of cereal to cap off the night. That's my dessert.
Identify your weaknesses, vary your training cycles, reevaluate and repeat.
I put way too much pressure on myself and put too much into CrossFit. It had become who I was. That's really when I figured out I don't want my identity to be CrossFit.
By kipping, you are able to generate power from the hip, transfer it through the body, then into your arms, creating a movement that originates in your core and moves to your limbs, and also generates more power.
The pre-CrossFit Rich Froning was a wuss.
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