18.2 and 18.2a!

As noted in the announcement this was a burner! I also really struggled with whether to try this Rx or not. I could have done the movements as written. Ultimately, I did it scaled and that was a good decision. I barely made it into 18.2a and would not have had I done it Rx. What was this 18.2 CrossFit Open workout?

In 12 minutes complete the following:

1 dumbbell squat (2 35# dumbbells)

1 barfacing burbee

2 of each

3 of each

4 of each

5 of each

6

7

8

9

10 of each…

Then with any time remaining get to a 1RM Clean – this is 18.2a.

The first 5 rounds moved along pretty quickly l, but after that things started to slowly fall apart. The burpees got really hard, if you need help with the math there were 55 of each movement and round 8 is when you hit the halfway mark on the reps. I started out doing strict burpees but started doing more stepbacks or stepovers in rounds 6 and 7. I finished the last round with less than a minute and was able to squeeze in 3 cleans in that time finishing with 120 on the bar. That last minute was intense with loading the bar and cleaning it.