re: CrossFit Open Results Thread (NSFW)

Thanks for the add in the OP, my 72 looks pitiful compared to the rest of y'all's hahaha. My DU's hurt me. I could snatch 55lbs all day long. Hoping for some box jumps and deadlifts in the future open WODS. Still need the bands for my pull ups, I can do two strict pull-ups then I'm needing a band, still learning the kip

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alaciamarsh

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If you don't have double unders 72 is great. All about battling through. You don't get DUs by not doing them Lot of people at my box were in the same boat too so you are not alone. Most people who post scores just happen to be people who do crossfit often

I am pretty damn good at gymnastic movements. When I drop about 10 pounds, I can do strict muscle ups on the rings, string bar muscle ups and all that. On just strength I am good at hand stand pushups

All that said, I can't do butterfly or kipping pullups

Hope so. Gotta figure out my hands. I got up there and over the top but had to regrip to press out. Really working on false grip but its so fricking awkward

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I am 5'9 200lbs but im 37 years old. Its very hard to maintain anything at this fricking age

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Tell me about it!!! I'm 5'7" 206 & 38 years old with 2 young kids and a wife who doesn't get my obsession with exercise. I'm pumped to get in the gym 3 days a week.

Even with all that I think I do pretty well a C&J off 255# and a 195# snatch. I don't recall what my thruster PR is, but front squat is pretty decent at 305. Just dropped about 12# in the last month on a fairly strict paleo diet.

Gonna try to redo 14.1 tomorrow, shooting for 275

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I hate the false grip too. If I have to string MUs together right now, I do first false than do frontward facing hands. Typically I just do singles though. So much easier

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Why? Once you get the hang of it it basically just turns muscle-ups into a deep dip.

If you can get comfortable with the flase grip muscle-ups are a joke.

First of all... Nice asses. Next, do yall go to a crossfit gym or just a regular/home gym and do the workout?

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I don't lift heavy unless it is programmed into our WODs and didn't work out between football in HS and Crossfit 3 years later. I just got lucky since I strict press 215-225 and front squat 335. Makes life a heck of a lot easier. If I ever wanted to be elite strength though, I need to fix my mobility (trying). Be happy you are 6' 180 because I fight weight gain unless I eat super healthy. Also strength means extra pounds and it isn't fun doing box jumps/pull ups/MUs at 200+

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GenesChin,

You should take this as flattery if they are in fact real, but I will tell you (and I think I've said it before so atleast you're consistent with your stories) that your numbers are insanely difficult to believe . If they are in fact true, you should a year really busting it and watching your diet and see how you could place because you have a legit shot.

I get stares by most people because I can strict press about 170 (it's my all-time goal in life to strict press my BW, I'm hoping to by the end of this year). I can't even imagine strict pressing 2 plates on each side. You're a helluva lot stronger than anyone I know if you're being serious !

We really are exact opposites. Most of my family is like 150. I swear I have the genetics of a Kenyan marathon runner. My diet to get to 180 is something like 12 eggs a day (no joke), 4 glasses of milk, 2 shakes, and chicken or steak for lunch and dinner. I have to eat myself sick to gain a pound or two on month it seems. It definitely helps with the box jumps though, white boy got hops!

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Next, do yall go to a crossfit gym or just a regular/home gym and do the workout?

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As I mentioned, I abandoned set Crossfit workouts in a sponsored gym about a year ago in favor of my own programing. I still scan the boards once a week, and if I see a workout I like I'll do it at the gym I go to. Outside of a few obscure things like the atlas stones or rope climbs, you can adapt most everything if they have a couple of Olympic plates and a platform at your gym.

As someone said, though, Crossfit gyms are an awesome place to meet people. You have to accept that half of them will be the cult paleo-weirdo tools, but a good bit of them are just former athletes who like competing and staying active.