24.3: Observations after a morning in the gym

[coalb]

@cinderedsoul Back squatting 365 at 165 lbs is fucking impressive.

 

[cinderedsoul]

@coalb Thanks, that means a lot! I was discouraged when I spent November to mid January on the Texas method and only gained 30 pounds on my squat but I guess 30 pounds is a lot when you’re 31 and been doing CrossFit 7 years

 

[1corithians13]

@buckswordbearer I thought since I knew I wouldn’t finish I wanted a good tiebreak score so I’d send it on the first piece. I also mistakenly thought the stimulus of thrusters and C2B would feel like the more common stimulus of thrusters and PU so held in for waaaay longer than I should.

Huge mistakes.

 

[kscottp]

@1corithians13 what do you mean by held in? like went too hard, or didn't push hard enough

 

[1corithians13]

@kscottp Sorry, held on as did not break up sets when I should have so went too hard

 

[drag3049]

@buckswordbearer Cannot agree with this more. Second part is a TRAP of a workout. Any rest after the 1min is immediately gone after the thrusters. Started to get really brutal around 3rd round of that.

14:38 was my time

 

[samye1]

@buckswordbearer Wheel house athlete here, short and by some CrossFit unicorn miracle was graced with thruster aptitude, and I agree with everything you said.

 

[scorpius22]

@buckswordbearer I got 131 reps. I’m terrible at stringing BMU so I just do singles. Key for me was not fail any so I had to be sure to not be too fatigued going it. I also don’t butterfly. Shoulders don’t like it so I don’t bother. For reference My Fran time is about 4:30 so figure if I really pushed the first five rounds I could have done it in about 5:30-6:00 . Instead I broke everything 5/5 and even a couple c2b rounds 5/3/2. I finished the five rounds at 7:47. Part 2 I broke the 135# in round one 3/3/1 to be safe. Took 2:00 to do the BMUs (not including transition). Did second set of thrusters 4/3 as I was more confident. Second set of BMU in 1:40. Had 10 seconds for a few more thrusters.

 

[amisraelhai]

@buckswordbearer Thrusters are terrible when you don’t have the mobility to get in the front rack. Which also makes c2b harder as well. So this workout just sucked for me.

 

[sonia5555]

@amisraelhai I feel you.

 

[nosparrowfalls]

@buckswordbearer What do you substitute if you aren’t able to do bar muscle ups?

 

[heavenstudent]

@nosparrowfalls You no rep attempts until the clock runs out. That’s your score.

 

[firstfruits]

@heavenstudent That’s my score too!

 

[arapkoech]

@nosparrowfalls Doing RX

 

[ceecee111613]

@buckswordbearer Love this post! This was exactly my plan going in. I have a sub 4 Fran and can string 10 C2Bs but I knew that would blow me up on the 2nd part. I treated the first half as an every 90 seconds workout and did singles the whole way on C2Bs. Added a few extra seconds on the last two rounds but still finished at 7:47.

My goal was 2 rounds into the second segment. Went 4-3 and singles. Ended up with 4 thrusters in the 3rd round. Unless you can't do the heavy thrusters or the MUs, the first segment absolutely doesn't matter, unless you kill yourself.

 

[sonia5555]

@buckswordbearer Great post.

 

[bburns4667]

@buckswordbearer My strength is gymnastics, so I broke the thrusters into 5s and went slowwww. Focused on going UB on C2B which paid off. Had a full almost 7 minutes to focus on the next part.

 

[monniep36]

@buckswordbearer Thank you!!!