Who Is Rich Froning's Wife, Hillary Froning? Net Worth In 2022

Rich Froning Jr, known just as Rich Froning, is a professional CrossFit athlete from America.

He is known for all his achievements in participating in the CrossFit Games. He was the first to win the title of Fittest Man on Earth four times, and that too in a row.

He won the title by first placing in the CrossFit Games in 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014.

In every year since then, barring 2020 for obvious reasons, the man has led a team from CrossFit Mayhem to finish first place in the team category of the CrossFit Games.

Besides making a living off of CrossFit, the athlete has won more than $1,050,000 in prize money from the four times he has won the CrossFit games. Froning owns the affiliate gym Crossfit Mayhem and also operates it. The gym is located in Cookeville, Tennessee.

He is also a member of the CrossFit Level 1 Seminar Staff.

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Who Is Rich Froning's Wife, Hillary Froning?

Rich Froning is married to Hillary Froning, and they wed on June 18, 2011, outside Hillary's uncle's farm.

What has been mentioned to the public are their many fertility problems. Hillary Froning has created a small social media empire from her experiences.

She runs a website called Forever a Froning, which talks at length about her infertility journey and her stories about the process of adopting her three children.

According to the woman herself, she is a Christian wife and has a lot of belief in her religion.

This belief is shared by her husband too. Hillary Froning believes that it is her mission to speak the truth and share her story of adoption and motherhood to inspire others to follow God's calling.

How Did Rich Froning And His Wife Meet?

According to Rich Froning's wife, Hillary, they met when she was in her sophomore year at Tennessee Tech University.

They had gone to the same high school and had a lot of mutual friends, but for some reason, their paths never crossed until one summer in college.

They met at a salon while both were getting their hair done. 

Due to their busy schedule, the two could only go to the salon during the morning. Hillary managed a local tanning salon while Rich worked at a fire department.

So, Hillary went to her 8 a.m. hair appointment on a Saturday summer morning without grooming.

The two met that morning, and although they'd never had a conversation before, they hit it off, dated a little over two years, and married on June 18, 2011.

How Many Children Does Rich Froning Have?

Rich Froning has three adopted children: Lakelyn, Trice, and Violet, with his wife, Hillary.

The couple found out they couldn't have children naturally soon after marriage. They struggled with infertility for many years, which was particularly hurtful for Hillary, as she wanted to become a mom.

Thankfully, the two decided to adopt, and that's how they got their three adorable children, Lakelyn, Tricem, and Violet. The family lives in Froning Farms, where they raise bison in their hometown of Cookeville, Tennessee. 

While Rich runs the gym, Hillary runs a boutique named 31TwentyFive which she owns with her sister.

How Old Is Rich Froning?

CrossFit athlete and trainer Rich Froning was born on July 21, 1987, and is 35 years old.

He was born in Mount Clemens, Michigan but moved to Cookeville, Tennessee, where he currently resides.

After he moved to Cookeville, he attended Cookeville High School. While in high school, he became something of an athlete. He played baseball and became an all-district, all-region second baseman. He was also proficient in and a part of the football team.

He graduated in 2005 and received a baseball scholarship to Walters State Community College.

However, Froning soon ended his baseball career and worked at his hometown's fire department. He continued his studies at Tennessee Technological University. A professor at Tennessee Tech introduced Froning to CrossFit in 2009, and he soon developed a passion for it.

Froning started doing CrossFit workouts in his barn and began coaching and competing in 2010.

How Much Is Rich Froning's Net Worth?

As of 2022, Crossfit trainer Rich Froning's net worth is approximately $5 million.

Froning has regularly competed at each of the CrossFit Games since 2010. He qualified for the 2010 Southeast Regional competition through the Sectional Qualifiers, a precursor to the online-based Open.

Froning won the Regional and qualified for the fourth CrossFit Games, held at Carson, California's Home Depot Center. At the 2010 Games, his first game, the Crossfit athlete earned five top 5 finishes. These finishes included two event wins.

Froning also never dropped below 13th. He was the leading athlete heading into the final event.

However, the rope climb portion of the games in the final event exposed a weakness in his technique. As Froning did not know how to wrap his legs and feet around the rope, the athlete was forced to attempt the rope climbs only using his arms.

This method left Froning exhausted, and he fell from the rope multiple times.

His 12th-place finish in the final event opened the space necessary for Graham Holmberg to move up to the top spot. The 2010 Games podium had Holmberg first, Froning second, and Chris Spealler third. In the next year, 2011, Froning again suffered as he had a poor start at the Games in the Beach event, which is known for featuring the first ever ocean swim.

However, he performed consistently well in most other events, winning three events, including the event that featured rope-climbing, and placed second in three other events.

Froning topped the leaderboard and had nearly a hundred points more than second place Josh Bridges, Which led to him winning his first CrossFit Games title.

After the 2011 Games, Froning won every stage of the Games seasons from 2012 to 2014. These wins included the worldwide Open, Regionals, and Games, and this winning streak lasted until he retired from Individual Competition.

In the 2012 alone Games, Froning won three events (Chipper, Elizabeth, and Isabel), beating second-place Matt Chan to win again this year.

Froning and Annie Thorisdottir, the winner of the women's competition, made history by being the first athletes to win the CrossFit Games twice.

In 2013, Froning started poorly again in the swimming event and finished in 30th place. 

However, the athlete made up for it by performing well in most other events and winning the last three. Froning once again topped the leaderboard, beating Jason Khalipa to win for the third time, becoming the first-ever three-time winner of the Games. He faced a strong challenge from newcomer Mat Fraser at the 2014 Games.

The athlete struggled in the Triple-3 event due to the heat and had to walk part of the run course.

At 37th place, it was Froning's worst-ever finish in a CrossFit Games event.

Still, the athlete finished strongly with three consecutive event wins on the final day to win a fourth consecutive title.

Froning then retired from individual competition after these Games, but in the half-decade that he competed in his four consecutive CrossFit Games, the man set the standard for the "Fittest Man on Earth."

The name came from a documentary released in the summer of 2015 called "Froning." The documentary filmmakers from CrossFit, Inc. coined the phrase when they called Froning the Fittest Man in History.

Since his retirement, Froning has qualified for Regionals as an individual.

However, the athlete has chosen only to participate in the team competition as part of the "Mayhem Freedom" team.

According to Froning, he doesn't necessarily like winning but hates losing more.

In 2015, after retiring from individual competitions, Froning started competing as part of the CrossFit Mayhem/CrossFit Mayhem Freedom team at the Games.

The athlete has been a constant in the team since 2015, although other team members have changed. Froning's team won all the team competitions at the Games from 2015 to 2021, from 2017 when it came second, and in 2020 when no team competition was held.

Rich Froning's Diet And Training

Being known as the fittest man on Earth, many people have been curious about Rich Froning's diet and training. 

Froning does not adhere to the two most popular diets in the CrossFit community: The paleolithic diet and the Zone diet. 

According to the trainer,  he does not adhere to a specific diet plan or count his calorie intake, making him a rarity in the CrossFit world. Froning has stated that he eats large amounts of peanut butter and drinks whole milk. Both actions do not adhere to the standards of the Paleo diet. 

During the day, Froning typically does not eat excessively, but he eats a large meal at night and drinks a lot of protein shakes.

According to Froning, he works out multiple times a day, and unlike other athletes and trainers, he prefers not to take any days off from training. Froning does not have a coach for his training, nor does he employ a programmer to write his workouts.

Instead, the athlete often finds an exceptional athlete to be his training partner, the most popular being Games athletes Dan Bailey and James Hobart.

Some of Froning's methods are discussed in his 2013 memoir, First: What It Takes to Win.

Rich Froning has also written another book called Froning: The Fittest Man in History, published in 2015. Frinung is fiercely Christian and has a tattoo that says "Galatians 6:14."

Galatians 6:14 asks that many never boast except on the cross of Jesus Christ. He shares his faith with his wife, and the two have stated that they love and cherish the Lord and their religion and believe they have to spread their faith.

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