YEP THAT PRETTY MUCH SUMS IT UP!!
Well then now that I've got your attention...I'll add a little more too it! Dave Castro deserves a swift kick in jimmy for allowing that little number to be the start of the OPEN WODS for 2012! Yes it was terrible! Whether you got 30 something or 161...it was terrible! Obviously, the guy who got 161 is pretty darn fit...check out his other fitness highlights....(Thanks Chris for finding this gem!)
(ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?! What are they doing in Russia for crying out loud!!! Just because Rocky beat Drago doesn't mean they have to make fun of the song by dancing like that to it!! )
Anyways..back on track...Reebok gave CF all the advertising power they needed to pump this thing up for a full year. They more than doubled the participation level in OPEN then last year. I'm not saying the WOD wasn't good...I'm saying it wasn't creative!!! You pump it up, pump it up and you can't even deliver a classic couplet/triplet to start the thing off with!
I'm sure we will see some pretty good ones in the weeks to come...just had to get that off my chest!
OPEN WOD 12.1
7:00 AMRAP of BURPEES!!!
= 88
- If you couldn't already tell...I stunk it up on this one! I tried 2-3 rounds earlier in the week to try and find a "work & rest" pace and that didn't work. So my plan was to find a pace and stick as close to it as I could for the whole 7:00 without stopping. I did that as best I could. I don't remember taking any breaks. I did have to step up 3 times. I don't feel I left anything in the tank.
Bottom line is my conditioning just isn't where it should be. I'm stronger than I was back in September-October, but I'm also about 10-15lbs heavier than I was then and that's when my conditioning and diet was at it's best. Hopefully, I can have a better showing in the next 4 weeks.
Berry, might be surprising, but I completely disagree with you on this one. One workout. One test of fitness. We will undoubtedly see programming testing a wide range of metabolic pathways and modal domains. Some workouts will favor different body compositions and movement strengths; and this, while certainly not a favorite of most, was simple and accomplished a precise objective. A particular test of fitness does not need to more complex than it needs to be. I will however concede that lack of creativity, but then again, there is more to come. If three weeks pass and we do not see couplet and triplet AMRAPs with movements consisting of gymnastics, calisthenics, olympic lifts, and plyometrics work, then you have a point.
ReplyDeleteDisagree with me on what? It sounds like you agreed with me on everything.
ReplyDeleteI said that it was a terrible WOD (as in tough), but still a good Crossfit WOD. (Paragraph 3, line 3)
And that it was very uncreative following all the hype they have given the games this year through TV air time and other advertising. (all of paragraph 3 and the one liner following it)
Couplets & Triplets are coming...I'd be shocked they break that rule in all the AMRAPs we are about to have.
Ok, I guess we agree on some elements, but you thought it was not a good workout to begin the Open. Possibly, but I bet CrossFit HQ got incredible attention for the sport by this particular workout (to people that would otherwise not give much thought to CrossFit), because of one word that appeared on all social media radars (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) across the world: "burpee"
ReplyDelete( http://www.google.com/trends/?q=burpee,+crossfit+games&ctab=0&geo=all&geor=all&date=2012-2&sort=0 ).
Anyways, better stuff to come...tonight!