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A review by kimball_hansen
First: What It Takes to Win by Rich Froning
3.0
3.5 stars. Dang it, he didn't narrate it. Minus half a star, Rich! You got your priorities wrong if you can't narrate your own audiobook. I picked up this book without knowing a thing about him or how famous he was at CrossFit. I think he jumped the gun like [a:Lindsay Stirling|1393414|Lindsay Stirling|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] by publishing a memoir way too dang early in life. Especially since he won two more CrossFit games after this. But maybe if read in it's time it would have been valuable.
I'm not that big of a CrossFit fan, primarily because I hate CrossFitters (on a related note I hate cat owners more than cats themselves or I hate Apple owners more than the Apple devices themselves) But These guys are strong. Can't believe he increased his snatch to over 300 pounds in just a few short years. Too bad this sport is a young man's game more so than any other.
He's pretty religious. Like Tim Tebow religious. And I think he should have joined the Navy and been a SEAL. I wonder what he does now with his life since CrossFit athletes peak early and retire early. It's not an old person's game like other sports.
At least this book helped me realize I don't want to be a fireman anymore (even though I hate firemen but I envy their day on two days off schedule. On that note, though, his excuse of firefighters being away from their home 4 months out of the year is invalid because any job you have you're away from your home for 4 months out of the year, it doesn't matter if it's 8 hours of a day shift or doing a 24 hour shift.
In the morning he works out for an hour or 2 then another workout in the mid-day. He doesn't go full speed though.
There's always a cost to consider for being better in a particular area. Like running for an hour will take away from other physical activities you could be working on.
I wish I could recommend this to Talmage but he'll never get around to reading it.
I'm not that big of a CrossFit fan, primarily because I hate CrossFitters (on a related note I hate cat owners more than cats themselves or I hate Apple owners more than the Apple devices themselves) But These guys are strong. Can't believe he increased his snatch to over 300 pounds in just a few short years. Too bad this sport is a young man's game more so than any other.
He's pretty religious. Like Tim Tebow religious. And I think he should have joined the Navy and been a SEAL. I wonder what he does now with his life since CrossFit athletes peak early and retire early. It's not an old person's game like other sports.
At least this book helped me realize I don't want to be a fireman anymore (even though I hate firemen but I envy their day on two days off schedule. On that note, though, his excuse of firefighters being away from their home 4 months out of the year is invalid because any job you have you're away from your home for 4 months out of the year, it doesn't matter if it's 8 hours of a day shift or doing a 24 hour shift.
In the morning he works out for an hour or 2 then another workout in the mid-day. He doesn't go full speed though.
There's always a cost to consider for being better in a particular area. Like running for an hour will take away from other physical activities you could be working on.
I wish I could recommend this to Talmage but he'll never get around to reading it.