Well, I only got 111 reps. The deadlift just totally gassed me even though I broke it up into sets of 5's until I hit 30. After that I had to do singles. The wall balls frustrated the heck out of me because my legs and arms
Felt fine. I just couldn't breath. Oh well.

I mean...its obvious the 17.5 hint is THRUSTING a knife....

and we can safely assume double unders will be a part of the equation

Also probably safe to infer that we will feel like a knife has been thrust into our thighs.

dead meat

lol

gambochaman said:

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I mean...its obvious the 17.5 hint is THRUSTING a knife....

and we can safely assume double unders will be a part of the equation

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The real question is will we have DB thrusters or barbell thrusters?
I worked on DB Thrusters last Saturday and they are brutal. at 6'2" and 175 lbs, I really could only do them in sets of 6-8 while getting below parallel and getting a good and controlled lock out overhead. Sets of 10 were really tough. As a comparison, I did quite a few barbell thrusters at 115 yesterday and those were definitely easier.

This is what we did today. I need to list it to help convey the bind I'm in at the moment.

5 sets
2x Sq Clean, Front Squat, Jerk
5 sets
1x Sq Clean, Front Squat, Jerk

3rounds
16 lunges with 135lb barbell
6 weighted dips (seconds down, 1sec at the bottom)

27,21,15,9
Cal Row
Dbl Thruster (50lbs)

We did 15.5 with dumbells last week. I feel your pain. WAY worse than it was with a barbell.

That many DB thrusters is serious!!
I did more DB thrusters today after our metcon and I didn't want anything to do with more than 8 thrusters at a time!

AggieT said:

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We did 15.5 with dumbells last week. I feel your pain. WAY worse than it was with a barbell.

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Did that too and 16.5 this on Sunday w/ DB. It was terrible

10 rounds. 9 thrusters. 35 double unders.

Seriously.

FML. DUs will kill me. Thank God there's a 40 min cap...

Well, at least is not an outrageous number of reps in each round
Ladies freaking killed it
Im happy with it...nice and simple

Currently in top 7% of men but DUs are my nemesis.. hope i can stay top 10

90 thrusters and 350 dubs. Will be The most I've ever done of each movement in one sitting if I finish.

If I'm still doing double unders at the 25 minute mark, just shoot me.

Sara S. On how to do this workout "just go until you're done". It's that easy.

jbanda said:

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Sara S. On how to do this workout "just go until you're done". It's that easy.

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Well...no **** sherlock lol

I read 17.5 and see 90 thrusters. Ugh!

Not worried about DU's. Been mastering those since i was on the 5th grade jump rope team.

Yeah my biggest concern isn't the thrusters. it's failing on the large number of double unders when I get fatigued.

I would have rather had a time cap at 20 min or so, rather than 40 min. This is going to take forever.

Means they want people to finish this

Really good stuff from wodprep.

Well, I didn't get time capped! 35:38 Rx.

I was able to do all of the thrusters unbroken, and then just chip away at the DUs. I must have jumped at least 700 times to get it done, but in the end I'm satisfied.

19:23

My cardio is so ****, felt better working then I did between rounds when my head was spinning. Didn't help that I did box squats at 365 first.

I'm ashamed to say that I didn't finish. Unbroken on thrusters for 1st 5 rounds and then broke them up into 5/4's. I simply cannot do double unders. I was doing single, double under, single, double under but could only string about 5 together. I puked a bit after round 8 and got all the way to 13 double unders on the 10th round.

I may try this again but this one hurt and I know I'm gonna be sore AF!

For those wondering... I am going to wait until the submission deadline for 17.5 (or most likely Tuesday morning) to rank the results from 17.4. I'm hoping in that time htownag will input his scores for both workouts. If not, I will drop him from the rankings and rank everyone else.

13:51 rx
Paced it well and felt good
Unbroken thruster thru 7, 5/4 in rds 8-10

The biggest thing on this one is the breathing....gets really hard after 3-4 rds

Got some good ideas on how to improve monday

19:24 Rx. Only two fails on DU. Broke Thrusters up 5/4 from the start.

Sets 1-3 = fun
Sets 4-5 = difficult
Sets 6-7 = no more fun
Sets 8-9 = can't breath
Set 10 = death by heart attack

14:33 RX.
I didn't feel like I had any energy from the start. Debated on stopping after round 3 because I just wasn't feeling right but figured it'd be good to get a baseline for a retest.

26:55

Just can't DU for the life of me, and Castro is a *****

15:27 RX. Went unbroken on the double unders on all but the 9th round. 5-4 on the thrusters on all be round 8. Nice and steady on the thrusters. Just wish I could go a little faster on them.

29:28 Rx. My strategy (min 1 9 thrusters, min2 35 dubs and so on...) blew up in my face after round 4. I was super on the fence about doing 17.5. Said F it. Pride didn't let me skip it.

And so another open concludes.

9:13 Scaled. All unbroken. Admittedly, the scaled weight was really light, I just wish I could do double unders.

I skipped 17.5. 17.4 did a number on my lower back... Does anyone have a recommendation for a belt?

I'm definitely in worse shape this year than last, and it pisses me off. Serious lack of effort (attendance) for the past six months. I'm now incredibly motivated to get back in the gym and get back in fighting shape. Not an excuse, but it's crazy the amount of time that young kids consume.

My Open performance this year was pathetic and eye opening. In that sense, the Open is beneficial for tracking how much you have improved, but also how much you haven't. Next year...