Rich Froning: Dominating That Fittest Man on Earth Title, Balancing Family & Career, and Building His Business Empire

The Ready State Podcast

Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Rich Froning has dominated the title of “Fittest Man on Earth'' by winning four consecutive CrossFit Games men’s titles, and five Affiliate Cup Championships. The former firefighter from Cookeville, Tennessee, took up CrossFit in 2009 and made his Games debut a year later, finishing second overall. In 2014, after his fourth consecutive win, Rich stepped away from the individual competition to focus on his growing family, only to come back a year later starting a run of six additional podium finishes with Mayhem Freedom between 2015 and 2021. In addition to world-class athlete, Rich has added entrepreneur and media brand to his portfolio; launching Froning Farms, Buffalo Brew Coffee, and Mayhem Athlete Programming business ventures. Rich is also an integral part of the ever-growing CrossFit Mayhem and Froning Farms YouTube channels, and two podcasts: Froning and Friends and Into The Storm. • This episode of The Ready State Podcast is sponsored by Momentous. Kelly first learned about Momentous when a national champion cyclocross athlete sent him a bottle of PR Lotion as a thank you gift. When one of the best athletes on the planet hands you a tool to unlock your own athletic suffering, you pay attention! Fast forward to today and Momentous is the largest supplier of nutritional support to college, pro-sports teams, and the military in the world. Micronutrient and functional nutritional support isn't a gimmick, it's a performance advantage. Whether you are looking for a high quality daily vitamin, collagen supplementation, or NSF certified protein to support working tissues, no one does it better. For more info, go to thereadystate.com/momentous and use code "TRS" for 20% OFF your first purchase.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Kelly Starrett.
0:06.5	And I'm Juliette Starrett.
0:08.0	And you're listening to the Ready State Podcast.
0:11.0	You got it.
0:13.0	You've been to stop it.
0:15.0	This episode of the Ready State podcast is brought to you by Momentus.
0:20.0	I want to talk about how I use
0:23.1	Momentus as a secret weapon to get micronutrients and macronutrients into my kids. True fact. I watch
0:29.3	you do it. It's called the $14 pancake. Tell me more about that. Well, what I try to do in the
0:34.7	morning sometimes is realize that this is one of the few opportunities where I can cram as much nutrition and control into my kids' diet.
0:41.1	So I make them breakfast and I make the $14 pancake, which is the best eggs I can afford, the best butter I can afford, like good fats.
0:50.1	And then I sneak in momentous protein, momentous collagen, momentous creatine, and I open up vitamin D capsules in there too. Oh, I've never seen you do the capsule, the vitamin D thing. I know, I'm super sneaky. I don't want my kids to be all weird. But what ends up happening then is that I make this super nutrient dense pancake, and I'm like, hey kids, who wants pancakes? Ha ha. Meanwhile, they're going to the Olympics and I don't even know how. Well, the thing is with kids is if something doesn't taste good, they won't eat it, even if they know it's good for them. And this tastes so good. They eat it right up. Yeah, and the real key here is that we're thinking about support, nutritional support. There's never in lieu of, but I feel like in these moments, I have a
1:29.3	real opportunity to improve the ball. And that is the protein pancake. To get all the ingredients
1:34.5	you need to make a protein pancake, go to the readystate.com slash momentus and use code
1:40.6	TRS for 20% off your first purchase. Ultimate Pancake.
1:45.5	This episode of the Ready State is brought to you by Virtual Mobility Coach.
1:50.0	This may sound crazy, but last year, I kind of tried to clone my husband.
1:53.2	Awesome.
1:53.7	Only kind of, though.
1:55.0	You see, Kelly gets dozens of requests every day for help.
1:58.2	And even though he wants to give everyone his personal attention,
2:00.8	there just aren't enough hours in the day. So I typed in wants to give everyone his personal attention, there just
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