Rich Froning & Angelo Dicicco on The Power of Having Great Training Partners - 211
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
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🗓️ 18 May 2016
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
"I'd take good training partners over a great coach any day" - Rich Froning
Rich Froning is 4-time Fittest Man in the World and CrossFit Games Champion, as well as a member of CrossFit Games 2015 Affiliate Cup winning team CrossFit Mayhem Freedom.
Angelo Dicicco is the 1st 14/15 CrossFit Games Teen champion.
Both are from Cookeville, TN.
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| 0:00.0 | This week on Barbell Shrug, we travel to Cookville, Tennessee to interview the world's fittest man, |
| 0:05.2 | Angelo Dittico, along with the other world's fittest man, Rich Froning. |
| 0:09.4 | Hey, this is Rich Froning, you're listening to Barbell Shrugged for the video version, |
| 0:12.7 | go to BarbellShrug.com. Hey, I see you sitting there lonely by your keyboard. If you want to, |
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| 0:28.4 | We'll send you some cool free stuff and make sure to check out over time. It's a sweet place with a bunch |
| 0:33.7 | of sweet stuff. And last but not least, I know you're trying to find a bitch in T-shirt to get |
| 0:38.6 | your mom for a birthday head on over to merch.barbellshrug.com. Yeah, I think, yeah, so I am starting to |
| 0:49.2 | downregulate right now. I'm getting tired. You can tired? No, I'm just kidding. We kind of, |
| 0:55.6 | yeah, you kind of had a blowout earlier. You did have a little other hand. Sure, several |
| 1:01.1 | tracks you did. Yeah, well, what y'all do tell us about what y'all did? Well, he was supposed to do |
| 1:05.9 | what I did today. He technically didn't. He did it a little bit faster than I did, but it was, |
| 1:10.4 | it was cleaning jerk, 380 pounds per time. And he won by a couple of minutes, by like 15 minutes. |
| 1:17.6 | I finally got it, but he finally got it too. Yeah, we both cleared our, uh, P-R, our cleaning jerk |
| 1:22.6 | today. Good day. Yeah. After we swim, we both swim today. I swim a little bit. I swim like a quarter |
| 1:26.8 | of what y'all did. I did probably like 500 meters total. But you're also not used to the volume |
| 1:30.3 | that we swim. So I did, I did way more kicking today than I have ever done in my life. Yeah, |
| 1:34.0 | kicking so in my hip flexures were pretty tired. How much did y'all swim today? Uh, I think it was |
| 1:38.3 | like 2000 yards. I think we were in the yard pool. 2000 yards is usually the room when we swim |
| 1:43.6 | is 2000, whatever pool we're in. Yeah. Because I know I got in that pool and we did, what is, |
| 1:48.9 | what is like the cross section of that? You were probably doing like 20 yard, uh, in the whole 25s, |
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