Words matter. These are the best Rich Froning Jr. Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It’s a tough thing to work with two different genders. You’ve gotta learn how to talk to women and talk to guys.
Yes, when you win once, you feel you can do it again.
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!
In 2010, I put CrossFit on a pedestal and then, when I failed at it and got second, it was hard for me.
Throughout my partnership with Reebok, I’ve loved working closely with their product and design team in our shared mission of creating the best fitness products in the world.
Swimming helps with recovery a ton.
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.
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 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.
People get injured everyday doing simple things. The problem comes sometimes when people crank up the intensity on skilled movements before they are ready.
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 workout all day, but there is something about working out at night that I like.
I’ve been trying to take more care of my body, especially as I’ve got older.
You don’t want to be the weak link or the person who lets other people down.
I am extremely happy to be able to say I am with Reebok for the rest of my career.
Identify your weaknesses, vary your training cycles, reevaluate and repeat.
When I started out, nutrition wasn’t a huge thing in my arsenal. Getting older, I’m getting a little smarter, thinking about longevity.
Don’t think about the 50 reps ahead of you, just the next 5.
I use CrossFit to glorify God with the talents he’s given.
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.
I knew religion from an early age.
I’m a Detroit fan in everything pro and I’m a Notre Dame fan in college.
It’s not even necessarily the will or want to win. It’s the shame and embarrassment of losing.
When things get hard, I think, ‘Someone somewhere is working harder than me.’
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’m one of 32 first cousins on my mom’s side, and 25 of us are boys.
It’s kind of a negative connotation that CrossFit gets. It’s all dependent on the person and it has to be scaled accordingly.
The way CrossFit is – anyone, on any given day, could beat you.
The worldly stuff is not always going to be there and it could be taken away at any moment.
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 don’t take rest days.
I get to do what I love every day, and I’ve got a great group of people around me that I have fun with. And working out is something I’ll do for the rest of my life, so I might as well try to be as good at it while I can.
Faith, family, and fitness – that’s the order I try to keep things in.
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.
I love apple pie. If I see one, I’m going to eat the whole thing.
Some of the people on the teams I’ve been on need to be uplifted and kind of loved on. And some people don’t need that at all – they need to be pushed; more hyped up.
It’s how many times you get back up that defines you.
I don’t think I’ve ever actually prayed to win an event.
People don’t like squats, but it’s an essential exercise.
Doing something for someone else, or working for somebody else, helps you push yourself beyond what you think is possible, or beyond what is possible just doing something for yourself. My faith, my family, whatever, if you’re doing it for someone else, you’re always going to push a little bit harder.
Me and my cousin started doing CrossFit in my barn; I haven’t looked back since.
When Reebok first let me try out the Nano 10, I thought this was about as close to the perfect training shoe as you can get.
You may not be the best at one thing.You may not be the strongest or the fastest, but you’re also not going to be terrible at something. You practice everything.
Enjoy the hard days, not every day is going to be fun but the days that are hard is when you get better.
I eat a lot of peanut butter and drink a lot of whole milk.
For anyone beginning CrossFit I would say find a local affiliate and get there. They have coaches and a community set up.
Various kinds of fish provide an abundant source of protein and are often leaner than other animal sources, so if I want my bodyweight to come down a bit, I can focus a bit more on fish and a bit less on protein sources like steak.
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 think CrossFit is highly beneficial to any athlete, in any sport.
CrossFit prepares you for real life.
Over the years of competing as an individual, I got a little bit burned out and tired of competing for myself.
The pre-CrossFit Rich Froning was a wuss.
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.
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.
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 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.
Broccoli, spinach, celery, and the like are excellent low-calorie foods that are densely packed with vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, and fiber. Their ratio of nutritive value to calories can’t be beaten, and I eat them with most of my whole food meals.
Being on a team, you push a lot harder for other people.
