CrossFit Open 12.1 this Saturday afternoon
Ever wonder what a CrossFit Competition feels like? Here’s your chance, to come watch as fellow members of the community attack Open WOD 12.1. We will be hosting this workout here, at CrossFit Somerville at 1:30 PM on Saturday February 25th. Bring friends, family, anyone you want. Come show your support and add to what will certainly be an energetic atmosphere!
Squat Clean: 3-3-3
WOD:
“Jeremy”
21-15-9
Ohs (95/64)
Burpees
Being a father of a 15-month-old baby, I felt compelled to find more about this beautiful boy from the picture. Not difficult to guess his name. What is not so easy is to recover from what I am feeling right now, after having read this passage from the main site (crossfit.com):
“Wednesday 2006 07 19 – Three year old Jeremy Bloniasz lost his life in a tragic accident Thursday, July 6th. To Jeremy’s parents, Kelly and Jeremy, the
entire CrossFit family offers our deepest sorrow. In young Jeremy’s honor the following kid’s workout will be known from here on as “Jeremy.”
I think I will recover from this strange feeling by doing this WOD with you, by doing our best. I believe that every time we do this WOD, we send our blessings to his family. Let’s do it. God bless Jeremy.
<3
Dear all,
Please watch this very short video on how crossfit can save lives:
http://media.crossfit.com/cf-video/CrossFit_ISR_1.wmv
Excellent work, 5:30 and 6:30 crews. Cal and Damien both went Bodyweight on their Squat Cleans, and then Cal pushed it even further to a double-PR, OVER bodyweight, at 110#. Fuck yeah!
Rachael walked out of here feeling ready to kill a bear after she pushed through some heavy OH Squats with extreme determination; Tim reported the same feeling post-WOD. For my money, NOTHING feels better than pushing the weight all the way up on OHS and fighting to keep those shoulders active. Great work by everyone to take it to the limit of your capabilities and still perform with good mechanics!
I did this WOD (with Tim watching from his volume training pullup work) after the 6:30 class left.
6:27 RX. Went unbroken on every set, but Cal still beat me by a few seconds. You’ll have to ask Tim about my range of motion, but I’m confident it was solid.
(And thanks for posting the video, Marcus.)
woo, thanks for the ego boosts, JT and 6:30 class! you guys are awesome.
one of last year’s open workouts was AMRAP 5 of squat clean and jerk, but each separate movement counted as 1 rep, so all you needed was the squat clean to stay in it. i didn’t compete last year, but my sister, who is pretty much the same build as me (but she’s a hell of a lot stronger and scrappier than me…)got knocked out by this one. so getting 110# squat clean makes me PSYCHED to know that if something like that comes up again this year, i’ll at least get 1 rep!
wod: 6:17 at 55#. Somewhere between 55# and 65# my overhead squat gets really, REALLY bad. One of the many things I need extra work on is OHS in higher volume.
Overhead squats & burpees are probably my absolute worst, slowest movements so naturally spent all day dreading this. But, even though I still need a TON of work on both: some progress –
5/20/11 – 11:06 @ 33#
2/24/12 – 9:15 @ 50#
For any interested:
A few of us will be watching and cheering Brian on Sunday morning at 9 am as he does his open workout. Following that, we will be heading to a park close by to practice some skills on rings and parallettes and anything else we can think of. Feel free to join us for skill work, comradery and coffee!
awesome, im in…. i think.