http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/30/health/crossfit-fittest-man/?c=&page=3
They trademarked it too. If you call anyone else the world’s fittest man they’ll sue your ass.
I’m sure there’s someone in the WWE that might think differently.
I like that even CNN felt the need to ask: what kind of supplements are you taking? When you are that full of PEDs you can’t even deny the question just dodge it.
I like how he says he gets up at 9 or 9:30.
Once upon a time you’d go to the gym to get better at a sport, now going to the gym is a sport in itself! Crossfitters get a lot of stick, but I don’t think it’s all that bad. If Crossfit wants to make it as a brand then they need to hype it up and make it into a bit of a circus, especially since the sport in itself is quite generic and intangible. I can’t see it lasting though.
“Supplements” is *not *equivalent to PEDs. Protein, caffeine and creatine are all perfectly legal, and they’re three of the most powerful substances for giving any person a workout boost. If you mix up Infinit or Gatorade, you’re taking a “supplement” – aka something that doesn’t occur in specific levels in a normal diet. I take an iron pill to fight anemia; am I a doper?
I’m not saying Rich doesn’t take something else. We have no way to know. But slamming him and the entire sport based on one clickbait question is a bit silly, don’t you think?
Plus, he sounds about as grounded (or more) than anybody on this forum. Get up at 4:30 to swim? You’re a gentleman, scholar, hero to your family and model Ironman! Get up at 9 to go to the gym? What a joke of a sport! Get up at 6:30 like a normal person? Fvckin’ lazy.
Eat dinner with his wife and adopted baby? WHAT’S HE TRYING TO HIDE?!?
The hypocrisy on ST never stops amazing me.
Reebok is betting a big part of their company on Crossfit so they are hoping you are wrong. I am guessing you have not seen Reeboks big push in this segment. It is a brand for them, sneakers and all.
I have done Crossfit before and it is just like anything else, as hard as you want to push yourself. I know Crossfitters bring a lot of it on themselves but no worse than pretty much any other adult onset activity athlete does, especially us! I think people who mock it as not being a sport though are only deluding themselves, if you really look at it then it’s just as legit as any sport that requires competency in several disciplines…
You can still say that you’re fitter than The Fittest Man 
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I like how he says he gets up at 9 or 9:30.
That was my favorite part too.
Good on him. He’s worked hard and won the “world championship” for the 4th year in a row. Dont care what time he gets up in the morning - he’s a professional, he’s supposed to structure his day to best suit his training.
I dont agree with the fittest on earth title (actually I dont really care - they can call themselves the fittest endurance sport athletes in the world for all the difference it would make to me) but theres no doubt he’s the best at what he does and he seems grounded to me (I’ve also seen a couple youtube clips).
Are you really this naive? Please google athletic supplements. The first link will be a crossfit sponsored page with a picture of a women drinking this: http://www.t-nation.com/store/products/surge-recovery.
Of course supplements don’t have to be PEDs but in the context of the interview they aren’t talking about caffeine. Language is nuanced and what’s important it the unsaid meaning rather than the literal one. My point was that the “supplement” culture is so intertwined with crossfit that even CNN felt it was a reasonable question to ask.
I’m not naïve. I just don’t know why it matters enough to call him out on a forum not related to his sport. We aren’t allowed to speculate about PED use by endurance athletes on ST, so I don’t get the double standard of bashing him and every other crossfitter by association.
The vast majority of people who simply do crossfit don’t have the inclination or money to supplement the way you’re implying.
And if you still hold CNN as a paragon of journalistic standards, you should rethink where you get your news. However, I guarantee BBC would ask the same thing. It IS a reasonable question, but CNN is writing a personal interest story, not an expose.
We aren’t allowed to speculate about PED use by endurance athletes on ST, so I don’t get the double standard of bashing him and every other crossfitter by association. //
I wouldn’t bash hism personally, but his sport. Do we really think that a professional sport that has virtually no testing, has folks in it with different sensibilities that virtually all other pro sports? I think the closest example here is body building. We know that drugs are extremely effective in that sport( like they are in cross fit), and there is no testing, in fact encouraged and needed to even attempt to compete. Until they join the league of real sports and sign onto the WADA code, and test like other sports, then we can only imagine how fit a human being can be and compare them. Right now i watch it like i used to watch body building, always with the knowledge in the back of my mind that i could not do what they do because i would not take what they take…They don’t represent the real bar for us to dream of pulling ourselves up onto. Well most of us anyway…
There is not one thing that suggests he is taking anything. I have a good friend who is a bodybuilder and injects more crap than you can believe. He watches crossfit and said 100% that he is clean from the way his muscle bellies look to his actual strength numbers (many clean athletes have posted better numbers than him). When you take anabolic steroids and lift heavy weights your muscles develop in a specific way and looks a certain way, you can tell pretty quickly. Almost every article i have read written by steroid users has said Rich Froning is 100% clean, they have not been so kind to many of the other competitors though. Look at natural bodybuilders, Froning is much smaller than many of them as well and his weight to height ratio is not unnatural (there is an interesting chart on the max weight to height one can be without steroids, normalized by bodyfat %). I had the chance to meet him last year and talk for awhile, amazingly humble guy who really did not want to talk about himself at all and asked about how everybody else was doing and took a real interest in each person. He is also not that big at all in person, pictures can make people look much larger than real life.
And just so we are clear:
- never failed a drug test (he was actually tested out of competition this year quite a lot unannounced, pee and blood)
- never had a sudden burst of improvement
- always same bodyweight (if you were running cycles you would see swings in weight and look)
- experts who dope say he is not doping
- All personal traits say he would not dope (yes he could be an amazing liar)
- All achievements are within reason of a clean athlete
…therefore he is full of PED’s ?
You should really be escorted off this forum.
I like how he says he gets up at 9 or 9:30.
The guy has several million dollars in endorsements and makes $250k+ one weekend a year by winning his *sport’s *championship. He makes a living working out, a damn good one, why does it matter when he wakes up? Are triathletes better men because they don’t have the opportunity to sleep in?
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Are triathletes better men because they don’t have the opportunity to sleep in?
no, but we shave our legs.
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Are you really this naive? Please google athletic supplements. The first link will be a crossfit sponsored page with a picture of a women drinking this: http://www.t-nation.com/...ducts/surge-recovery.
Of course supplements don’t have to be PEDs but in the context of the interview they aren’t talking about caffeine. Language is nuanced and what’s important it the unsaid meaning rather than the literal one. My point was that the “supplement” culture is so intertwined with crossfit that even CNN felt it was a reasonable question to ask.
Scan the first few pages of this forum and count how many threads are about “nutrition”, ie. sports supplements. I think next we should talk about how ridiculous their $50 workout/boardshorts are, while we wear our $200 bib shorts.
I get that crossfit is a bit goofy and an over-marketed hypefest but when people go to all the extra effort to bag on it you come off looking equally as silly.