No Wonder Day 1 Felt Like A Rest Day…

You Need To Watch This Vid

Yeah, on the Games site, it’s titled “Days in the Life of Rich Froning”, but there’s also a good junk of Dan Bailey in there.

Even if you don’t have the time to watch the ENTIRE vid, catch some of it. Skim through parts.

Source: games.crossfit.com

Let’s just get a few things out of the way…first of all, the half-assed face censoring was a waste and made the vid look ridiculous in the beginning. Second, the interviewer was annoying as fuck. Gotta give Rich and Dan props for handling that assclown well. It just shows they’re legit guys.

So yeah, as I was watching this earlier today, I couldn’t help but think about their WORK CAPACITY. Holy shit. It’s one thing to work out multiple times in a day. It’s a whole ‘nother story when you’re dealing with heavy and intense loads every time.

Now that I look back at that post-workout interview at the end of Day 1 of the Central East Regional, Rich was serious about his “rest day” comment. He wasn’t trying to sound like an cocky guy. He wasn’t trying to show off. He was just telling the truth.

Rich Froning Jr Rest Day

Yeah, the edits on that interview (the rewinds, etc.) for the Update show made him seem like an ass. It’s easy to put a lot of emphasis on that one line he said. Now, I believe it. Rich and Dan are truly on another level.

It makes me wonder what the “Silent Assassin” Graham Holmberg does for his training.

For serious…watching this made me want to work out. Gotta wait 12 hours for that…shit…

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regularDude

Thanks for the link, watched most of it. Dude is an animal. But he is like many other elite athletes (pros) that I’ve read about or known personally. I laughed about his “stresses” [aka, having a wife nag him, a dog that pees on the floor… real tough life. Eat, sleep, lift]. At one point I was a top level age-group athlete in Ironman triathlons, this probably equated to Regional Qualifier. The Pro’s would be similar to Games athletes. To go from Regional qualifier to Games athletes is a whole different level, hard to do with a full time job, kids and other stresses/obligations in life. Props to those that do and olympic athletes that hold down jobs too. Thanks again, found it entertaining and funny.

Randy

It is impressive yes but people should realize the loads and perceived effort of each workout he does in the day is NOT as intense (as in; maybe 80% effort instead of 99%) thus why the volume can stay high. It’s smart training, not training to “fall on the floor and make a sweat angel” style every time. It’s still impressive. However, realize the effort he puts in to each workout is not shooting for a PR every time or 1rm.

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