The CrossFit Open season has begun!! There have been loads of changes from HQ, but they still came up with a legit workout, that at first glance seems simple, but man does it hurt!

19.1 is a couplet of 19 Wall Balls and 19 Calorie Rowing for 15 minutes getting as many reps as possible (AMRAP). Easy peasy or something! The 15 minutes is a long time for these two intense movements. The Rx was a 20# wall ball at a 10′ high standard.

I completed a total of 218 reps (each calorie is one rep) in the 15 minutes. That is 5 rounds and 28 reps. I might have started off a little fast, finishing the first round in about 2 minutes. But I broke up the wall balls into a set of 10 and a set of 9. I didn’t think about it until I was judging my partner, but I should have been watching the calorie/hour to try and be consistent each round. It was slowly taking me longer on each round to do the calories starting at about a minute and ending at about 80 seconds. I think in the last two rounds I ended up breaking the wall balls into sets of 5 and one random round in the middle I dropped the ball as sand fell in my face on the first rep. The last round I dropped the ball with 1 rep to go, oops! My judge said I had good form throughout and I didn’t get any no reps. A spectator said that I was shooting them way higher than I needed to be. There was a random little box right above the 10′ mark that I kept shooting it into, that seemed like an easier target than an arbitrary line as I got tired!

Don’t get me wrong it was no joke, but I didn’t feel it until after my partner was done and I had to walk around more to put stuff away! Oh man!

Who is ready for 19.2?