I hope you are right Bostonwolf

I'm predicting Castro will pull out a girl WOD. Heavy Diane. 21-15-9 HSPU and Deadlifts, but at 275/195. Or maybe Karen.

Did it this morning. Got 138RX. Wow...that was tough! Wish I'd gotten to the HSPUs but WBs are a killer for me.

Finally a workout I can do!lol not meaning its easy by any means but with my limited shoulder ability I cant do alot of the workouts without extreme modifying

I got 143RX. Gaheligh WBs suck *kitten*

Got to HSPU at Rx with 14 seconds and couldn't get up. Ugh. I was going to try it again same day but never got motivated enough to get my butt back into the gym. I really had Wall Balls!

58rx. This is the first time I've done deadlifts at this high of a volume at 155 soo that was fun. And wall balls were just awful for me. I got no-repped so many times that it took me several minutes to even get 3 :0! It's a hard life when you're under 5ft tall blegh.

165 reps Rx here on Friday. I finished rowing at the 9:15 mark, figured I'd take 45 seconds to catch my breath (laying on floor next to my rower) then spent 3 minutes trying to lock out a HSPU. I prefer to do these facing into the wall, but rules had you facing outwards so I had to try to do the best I could knowing I didn't have that form down. I fell on my face more times than I can tell you, but in the end, I was happy with my score.

This was my first time doing RX. I went in to the gym with scaled in mind, but was convinced to do RX. Got 129. Not thrilled. If I had a 10 lb wall ball I know I would have done much better. Thoughts on this? Which would have been a better option? (because I waited until monday to do it, I can't do it over).

mandiegold941 wrote: »

This was my first time doing RX. I went in to the gym with scaled in mind, but was convinced to do RX. Got 129. Not thrilled. If I had a 10 lb wall ball I know I would have done much better. Thoughts on this? Which would have been a better option? (because I waited until monday to do it, I can't do it over).

I think it depends on two things -

1. What's your reason/goal is for doing the Open.
2. What is your overall ability to do Rx workouts vs. the scaled one.

For #1, if you're just doing it for the fun of trying different WODs, and you want to get a great workout in, then doing them scaled might make sense. See #2.

For #2, if you are not able to do the majority or any of the WODs Rx, then I think it doesn't really make sense to benchmark yourself at that level. I think then you should do scaled, or even less than scaled if you need to. If however you can do the majority of the exercises Rx, with maybe 1-2 overall that you can't do at all, then Rx I think makes more sense, unless per #1 you're just out to get the best/longest workout in you can.

In my case, with the exception of Muscle Ups, and to some degree HSPU, I can do all the exercises that have come up, at the Rx weights (or at least beginning weights in case of 16.2) so that was not a problem. On top of that, my goal was to benchmark myself and see where I ranked in with the larger community (more curious than anything) and then going forward, each year see if I improve on my overall ranking (within my box and at large) and score. So to that end, in 16.2 I recorded a score of 85 (I didn't get our of first 4 minute round because I was too slow on TTB and DUs - which are both known weaknesses for me), and in 16.3 I recorded a 10 (can't do Muscle Ups). Those will both be on my short list to work on more than normal this coming year. CTB hurt me in 16.1, not as much as those others, but it's also on my short list.