Quotes from Rich Froning Jr.

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 a Detroit fan in everything pro and I'm a Notre Dame fan in college.

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.

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.

In training, you listen to your body. In competition, you tell your body to shut up.

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.

I eat a lot of peanut butter and drink a lot of whole milk.

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

Enjoy the hard days, not every day is going to be fun but the days that are hard is when you get better.

It's not even necessarily the will or want to win. It's the shame and embarrassment of losing.

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.

My gift from God has been my talent, my genetics, and the people around me.

When I started out, nutrition wasn't a huge thing in my arsenal. Getting older, I'm getting a little smarter, thinking about longevity.

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.

CrossFit prepares you for real life.

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!

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.

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 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 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.

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

I am a big supporter of the CrossFit community and enjoy helping people gain a better understanding of the CrossFit style of workouts.

It's how many times you get back up that defines you.