Rich Froning Jr.

“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.”

“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 don't really have a routine. I make it up on the fly, or whatever feels right, I'll 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.”

“CrossFit prepares you for real life.”

“I take protein and amino acid supplements, but I honestly don't know if they do anything.”

“Over the years of competing as an individual, I got a little bit burned out and tired of competing for myself.”

“Identify your weaknesses, vary your training cycles, reevaluate and repeat.”

“When things get hard, I think, 'Someone somewhere is working harder than me.'”

“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.”

“Me and my cousin started doing CrossFit in my barn; I haven't looked back since.”

“I'd, you know, I'd believed in God my whole life. And then started thinking about it. I was like, 'Am I living like - this stuff I'm reading - am living like we are called to live; to put Christ first, and to live for Christ? Maybe I'm not living like I'm supposed to.'”

“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.”

“I workout all day, but there is something about working out at night that I like.”

“Your body's an amazing machine and it's created to do stuff. See what you can get out of it.”

“I don't take rest days.”

“A lot of people who do CrossFit eat a strict paleo diet, but I don't subscribe to any specific way of eating. If you burn enough calories, you don't need to.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Being on a team, you push a lot harder for other people.”