Any Crossfitters?

Jumping right in! The open is fun, (assuming your box does something cool for it) Last year was my 1st experience with it, looking forward to this year.

@rbyo makes a great point. Since I'm training through one injury or strain or another, I scale quite a bit, especially overhead movements and pull-ups currently. You can scale the movement and still get a great workout in. However, that's fine for an everyday workout, but if you compete in the Open there are movement standards that will be scrutinized i.e. Where the bar starts and where it ends. (How you get it there isn't so much of an issue.) This is especially the case with overhead movements like cleans, jerks, presses, squats etc.

OP since it's your first open it might be worth taking the $10 ref course. I did and I'm not planning on competing in the Open. You also might want to download and read the rule book once, takes less than an hour.

Been doing CrossFit for almost 2 years now, but was off for the past 6 months recovering from shoulder surgery. I was just cleared to start lifting again, so I'm back in the box doing 5 days a week. I didn't think I'd be back in time for the Open. I did the non-scaled Open last year, but this year I'll be doing it (unofficially) with lots of scaling involved since certain things I'm not allowed to do for another 3 months (pull-ups and bar work being the biggest one). It will still be fun regardless. Feel free to add me as a friend. My wife is a huge CF fan, and now goes 6 days a week, though it took her almost a year of watching me before she decided to give it a shot. She's on here too if you wanted to add her as a friend.

Good luck all!

@Keladelphia is my favorite crossfit competitor.

_incogNEATo_ wrote: »

@Keladelphia is my favorite crossfit competitor.

Awww well you're my favorite powerlifting competitor @_incogNEATo_


@IceQueen1986 It's awesome that you've only been doing CF a few weeks and registered for the open! It's a great way to really get involved in the CF community. Have a blast with it! It's so fun to look back at each years Open to see how you've grown once you've been doing it for a few years.

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This year is my first Open - the first workout has been posted and while it will be difficult, the movements are all things I can actually do. I'll be doing Rx - but there is no way I finish within the time cap.

I did better than I expected - 190 reps. On to 17.2.

OMG Yes! started Crossfit the 7th of November here in Iceland and I've been doing this for 3 months. It's the best thing I've done for myself. We have some crazy competitors and it's AMAZING to watch them do the Open Wod again, and again and again. I swear those girls have a death wish lol.

I did it twice
First attempt: 225 reps - 19:59
Second attempt: 225 reps - 17:43

I loved it! I can't wait to do 17.2 on Friday

Good luck to all who are partaking in the Open. I'm a newbie to Crossfit and I tried 17.1 scaled workouts this week. Loved it! I'm amazed and inspired of the age and fitness levels competing.

I did middle scaled and almost got my first pull-up. Fun though!

Thank you! Awesome job @Gimsteinn ! Good luck on Monday! You can do it.

Any predictions for 17.3?