Rich Froning Jr., 4x Fittest Man on Earth

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais

Sport Psychology, Finding Mastery, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Business, Self Help, Michael Gervais, Health & Fitness, Mindset, Psychology, Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 25 July 2018

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

This week’s conversation is with Rich Froning Jr., dubbed the Fittest Man in History after winning four back-to-back individual CrossFit Games championships (2011-2014).

He also won the worldwide Open for three consecutive years (2012-2014), and when he retired from individual competition after the 2014 season, he captained his affiliate’s team, CrossFit Mayhem Freedom, to two back-to-back Affiliate Cup championships in 2015 and 2016.

When I mentioned to a couple of my friends that Rich was coming on, they raised their eyebrows and nodded, "That’s going to be a great one.”

Rich’s point of view comes from being recognized as the best in the world at his craft.

It’s clear Rich understands winning – and the costs associated with it.

In Rich’s words: “To be the best in the world at anything, you’re not balanced. You can’t be balanced.”

So if you knew that ahead of time, would you still pursue it? It’s a great question and why I love these conversations so much.

They really make you think about who you are and what you value most – at least they do for me.

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0:00.0	I woke up every morning to be the fittest man on earth. I wanted to I wanted to win at all
0:06.2	costs no matter what I sacrificed a lot. When I woke up every breath I took, every waking hour,
0:13.4	my goal was to win the Crossway games,
0:14.8	and I sacrificed a lot.
0:16.6	Would I change that?
0:17.3	Probably not. All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast, I'm Michael Jervais. And by by Trade and Training I'm a sport and
0:33.7	performance psychologist and also the co-founder of Compete to Create and my
0:39.0	partner there is head coach Pete Carroll the Seattle Seahawks where we're
0:42.2	taking his insights about how to switch on a culture
0:44.5	and my insights about how to train the minds of people who want
0:47.1	to be their very best.
0:48.1	And we're taking those practices into business.
0:50.3	And it's been phenomenal.
0:51.7	It's been a blast.
0:53.0	Okay, and the whole idea of this podcast is to learn from people who are on the path of mastery to better understand what they're searching for,
1:01.0	to understand their psychological framework framework which is how they understand
1:03.7	themselves and events and basically their worldview and then we also
1:07.4	want to dig to understand the mental skills that they've used to build and refine
1:11.4	their craft.
1:12.4	Finding Mastery is brought to you and refine their craft.
1:13.0	Finding Mastery is brought to you by Vitruvian.
1:15.6	Vitruvian is on a mission to help people live longer, stronger lives.
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