Quotes by Rich Froning Jr. - Page 2

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.
Rich Froning Jr. / Athlete
Fastest
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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.
Rich Froning Jr. / Athlete
Acupuncture
Therapy
Big Thing
Manual
Regular Basis
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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.
Rich Froning Jr. / Athlete
Hard Work
Okay
Sweat
Sure
Work Hard Work Sweat
Parents
Work Hard Work Parents
Just Something
Work Hard
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Lean steak cuts provide an excellent source of high-quality protein, and the taste is second to none! Chicken and turkey are great as well, but I prefer steak myself.
Rich Froning Jr. / Athlete
High Quality
Protein
Steak
Chicken
Cuts
Turkey
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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.
Rich Froning Jr. / Athlete
People More Need
Hyped
Uplifted
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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.
Rich Froning Jr. / Athlete
Adapt
Body Needs
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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.
Rich Froning Jr. / Athlete
Figured
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The CrossFit games, the four-time Fittest Man on Earth isn't about me. It's about Him and the talents that I've been given. It's my way to glorify Him through what I do.
Rich Froning Jr. / Athlete
Glorify
Man Me Way
Talents
Fittest
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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.
Rich Froning Jr. / Athlete
Accomplish
Effectiveness
Together Community People
Suffer
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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.
Rich Froning Jr. / Athlete
Jumping
Movements
Picking
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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.
Rich Froning Jr. / Athlete
Fitness
Partnership
Closely
Shared
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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.
Rich Froning Jr. / Athlete
Humbling
Nasty
Good Look Fun
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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.
Rich Froning Jr. / Athlete
Yourself People Doing
Different Thing
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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.
Rich Froning Jr. / Athlete
Firefighter
Life Experience
Tuition
Life Time Experience
Factory
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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.
Rich Froning Jr. / Athlete
Big Deal
Brady
Coming Home
Normal Life
Sorry
Life Home I Am
Tom
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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.
Rich Froning Jr. / Athlete
Arms
Limbs
Power Your Body
Generate
Hip
More Power
Transfer
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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.
Rich Froning Jr. / Athlete
Nerves
Everyone Else
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In life, you don't really know what's coming at you. Like a firefighter, or police officer, or anyone else working in the emergency field, they don't know what's going to come at them. You gotta be ready for anything.
Rich Froning Jr. / Athlete
Firefighter
Police Officer
Anyone Else
Emergency
Officer
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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.
Rich Froning Jr. / Athlete
Get A Real
Hop
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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.
Rich Froning Jr. / Athlete
Life Love Good
Have Fun
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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.
Rich Froning Jr. / Athlete
Protein
Steak
Abundant
Sources
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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.
Rich Froning Jr. / Athlete
Fitness
Accuracy
Agility
Balance
Competent
Coordination
Endurance
Flexibility
Ideas
Individual
Physical Fitness
Speed
Stamina
Physical
Pillar
Thinks
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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.
Rich Froning Jr. / Athlete
Dance
Active
Gymnastics
Type
Always Will Anything
Always Will Way
Physically
Sport
However
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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.
Rich Froning Jr. / Athlete
Coaches
Headphones
Programming
Always World Your
Affiliates
Varies
Welcoming
Whereas
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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.
Rich Froning Jr. / Athlete
Beaten
Broccoli
Calories
Celery
Excellent
Fiber
Meals
Minerals
Spinach
Vitamins
Foods
Packed
Ratio
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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.
Rich Froning Jr. / Athlete
Session
Worn
Just Kind
Meal
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