re: 2015 Crossfit in-game thread: Road to the Open.. 15.5.. The end is near.

Yeah I think he said he knocked out rd 1 in 1:20 and rd 2 in 2:00 said he just pussy footed on rd 3 and finished with 13 reps on the chest to bar

The Outlaw Way has a pretty good video on how to tackle 15.2 and it's all based on trying to keep your HR under control by breaking everything down in small sets.

R1: 5 reps, break, 5 reps
R2: 4 reps, break, 4 reps, break, 4 reps
R3: 5 reps, break, 5 reps, break, 4 reps
R4: 4 reps, break, 4 reps, break, 4 reps, break, 4 reps

...and so on.

They had a HR monitor on someone while they tried multiple rep ranges and found that trying to go unbroken in OHS caused the HR to spike 15-20 bpm higher than someone doing smaller sets. The same with butterfly chest to bar pullups.

The amount of break time you take is based on how fast/slow you are performing your reps.

You may get to a point where you just have to do as many as you can due to time, though.

Just did 15.2 about 2 hours ago. Improved on last years score but only by 2. Went from 76 to 78.

Tried to go and do it yesterday, but last minute daddy duty came up on my way to the gym. Was trying to give myself 2 days to recover if it didn't go as well as I had hoped. Still going to give it another shot Monday.

Had a guy destroy his score from last year. He improved ~ 35 reps. We're about the same age (actually, he's a few months older), both about same shape and I had about 8-10 reps on him last year. Frustrating that I improved so little compared to that.

I realize I'm a week behind
But just did 15.1 and 15.1A.

I follow Outlaw from a week behind since I can't always workout on the same set days. And I'm not gonna make regionals so I don't care about submitting my scores for the open.

But I got 124 for 15.1A and 255 for 15.1B

I definitely should've gone harder on 15.1A. I was too worried about my hands ripping, and I went at too steady of a pace, to the point where I never really went all out.

But, I doubt I would've got 255# had I pushed harder, so it evens out I suppose.

Yeah. It's tough to get the feeling for OHS in the beginning.

It still feels awkward for me and I've done them for months now.

My shoulders are toast from that workout. I can feel it in my core. Tomorrow should be interesting. I want to get at least 6 miles in tomorrow morning.

I don't know how I'll do on this tonight. I am not great at kipping bar movements but I can smoke the OHS. I am hoping that my 10k prep of 5RDS of 800m/5MuscleUps as my CF warmup every day will give me some much needed endurance.


I want to say last year I got some 70 something. Missed RD2 by about 4 reps

about to go hit 15.2 disappoint in 15.1 with 155 and 245 clean & Jerk arms were spent. Hopefully improvement from 152 score from last year

I'll probably set a date sometime in September to retry all of the 2015 Open workouts.

Deload week on 5-3-1.

Tues, Thursdays, Saturdays now agility and sprinting.

Sunday rest