Hi, everyone. Nicole Carroll here.
Let's take a look at 18.2.
For the couplet, remember, it's ascending,
so you need to mentally prepare for this to get harder as you go.
You're trying to get the squats and the burpees done in as little time as possible.
This is to leave yourself some time to recover and clean,
but also because that couplet's worth a lot.
It's scored separately, and it's the tiebreak
in the event that another athlete hits the same lift as you.
That said, devastating yourself on the couplet is not smart.
You don't want to be forced to take a ton of recovery time,
and ideally, you're starting your first clean within a minute of finishing the couplet.
In your warm-up, you want to work up to your opening lift,
but remember, that weight is going to feel a lot heavier after the couplet
than it did in your warm-up,
so you want to choose an opening weight that you're very very confident you can hit.
If you get multiple attempts on the cleans,
it is much smarter to compress your rest
and take smaller jumps in weight
than it is to take longer breaks and go for larger jumps in weight .
I love this workout because it perfectly expresses and tests
one of CrossFit's core tenets, which is being balanced across capacities.
This means there should be a little something fun in there for everyone.
So enjoy yourself, and good luck!
Warm up really really well for the clean.
You can do a little general warm-up
and just clean, clean, clean, clean, clean,
and I wouldn't even be afraid,
I mean, sure, you don't want to do your heaviest lifting sesh ever,
but get up to your opening load,
maybe even a little bit beyond.
Go hard on the couplet.
And you can't— You have to know yourself as an athlete
a little bit.
You obviously don't want to be blown out to the point where
you're on the floor like you just did Fran,
and it takes you 2 minutes
to recover, and you taste blood.
You know? You can't go that hard.
But that's a score. It's a score, and it's a tiebreak for whoever else gets the same load as you.
185— There's a ton of women that are going to get that load,
so my couplet
is going to end up making a big difference.
When you get to the lift,
it's better to take shorter rest
and more lifts,
taking smaller jumps
I think,
than trying to take big rests and big jumps,
because,
you've just taken a big break,
a big a 7-minute, 6-minute, whatever, 8-minute, however long, break
doing that work,
so you're generally very very warm,
but you've not been practicing up to, what's now, a very heavy lift.
Yeah, so when I went to
get the first 185, I thought,
"OK, I have to hit this
so I can get 190."
And I fu—
I missed it.
And then I thought—
The very next thing I thought was,
"Right, respect the load. You have to respect this weight."
Just thinking about something like that,
it took my mind out of the lift at the moment,
and it's not an easy lift for me,
even though I was feeling really really good.
I do think I have 190 in me.
That was the wrong thing to think.