Week two of the Open…while I’m still doing burpees, they aren’t part of the WOD this week. Instead, it’s everybody’s favorite… the snatch ;-P
Workout 12.2
Proceed through the sequence below completing as many reps as possible in 10 minutes of:
30 Snatch (M 75 / F 45 lbs)
30 Snatch (M 135 / F 75 lbs)
30 Snatch (M 165 / F 100 lbs)
Max Rep Snatch (M 210 / F 120 lbs)
Its been quite a while since I’ve done snatches (looking back at my PRs, my max snatch was 155# back in 2010 when I was working with Billy) and I didn’t get into the gym earlier in the week to practice them either. But come Sat morning, I took my first trip up to NorCal Crossfit Mountain View’s new location finally to hit the WOD…
Result: 44 reps
Over-all I”m pretty happy. With a max of 155#, I figured I wouldn’t even worry about trying to get to the 165# set and I figured the 135# would be challenging. I took me a little while to comfortable with the movement at that weight, and did miss a few reps. But I did finally get it and managed to make it about 1/2 way thru the set.
One thing I noticed was that neither myself, or anyone else, ever did a full snatch. We were all doing power snatches. And watching so many folks get the bar to their head but failing the rep, makes it very apparent how much more we could do if we just drop under the bar… but that’s easier said than done.