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The WODcast Podcast

575 Rich Froning - the Fittest Man in History

The WODcast Podcast

The Wodcast

Health & Fitness, Sprinting, Functional, Crossfit, Weightlifting, Fitness, Gymnastics, Crossfitgames

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Rich Froning Jr. is an American professional CrossFit athlete known for his achievements participating in the CrossFit Games. He became the first person to win the CrossFit Games title of "Fittest Man on Earth" four times with his first-place finish in the 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 CrossFit Games.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Wadcast podcast. I am your host Eddie Ifte. Here I am live from my kitchen.

0:10.0

Yeah, I have a new studio, but I'm going to be still doing the show mostly here.

0:17.0

I don't think I can do the show that I do. This is a fitness, health, strength, conditioning,

0:25.0

crossfit, you know, all things healthy. And I live a multi-dimensional life, I guess you could say.

0:33.0

I'm not a partyer, but my comedy podcast is a bit of a party.

0:38.0

And my new podcast is being done out of a place called Jam in the van.

0:43.0

And I don't think I could ever have podcasters or broadcasters or athletes that come on this show come there.

0:53.0

It would never want to speak to me again. Today's episode is an incredible episode with an incredible guy.

1:01.0

Not only has he won the CrossFit Games multiple times as an individual and then been considered the fittest man in the world.

1:10.0

But he's also won it multiple times on the team with team mayhem, mayhem madness.

1:17.0

I forget what they call themselves, but they are just ridiculous and unbeatable.

1:22.0

But the guy is just an awesome guy. One of the best, I'm going to put him in my top three favorite guests.

1:30.0

I just love talking to him. And I wanted to talk to him because he just did the Leadville 100 bike race, which is,

1:36.0

if you don't know about it, Google it, learn about it. It's one of the hardest races in the world.

1:41.0

One day race, three in the morning. And that's why I sound like that.

1:48.0

I have to get up in like three hours to get on an airplane to go to Atlanta to do shows.

1:54.0

So I hope you enjoy this episode with Rich Froning. If you want to hear some of the stuff that I have to tell you about,

2:01.0

who won the saga, saga blood restriction, blood flow restriction cuffs, stay tuned right now.

2:11.0

If you want to find out where I'm performing live, stay tuned right now.

2:16.0

And if you want to hear about our sponsors, stay tuned right now.

2:20.0

If you care about the show, if you like the show, I don't know if you listen here.

2:24.0

Do you listen or just a lot of podcasts I go to, I fast forward straight to the show.

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