Open 19.2 goes live at 8PM! Get ready for some fun! Here's the current team rankings for the 2019 MTM Open. Remember, it's 1 of 5 workouts, the championship is up for grabs to every team! 1 NickErin CNate 2 DmacShawnJon 3 JohnRandyTravis 4 KPMichaelLarissa 5 Jake HJeffJennah 6 MarisaJAbateBrett 7 DriaKellyChristel 8 BeachPaigeMichael D. 9 JTTomErin K 10 KurtBrittanyDrew 11 JimboCelesteJustin 12 MikeBethany/MichelleBruce 13 SandyKylaJenn S Sorry for the poor formatting, it's harder than you'd think to import a spreadsheet into an HTML blog post like this! I'll be providing a link to the leaderboard spreadsheet in the next few days so that everyone can obsess over the raw data! Bench Press 1

Were you feeling really sore after 19.1? Did you find yourself saying something like "I haven't pushed that hard in a WOD in a long time!" Lots of us felt that way...and that's a problem! When you start CrossFit every workout is hard. They're all exhausting and they're all challenging with the new movements and the different ways you're challenging your body. That's what makes it work. Then along the way we get better. Pull ups aren't as hard, we string some double unders together, we started throwing around RX'd weights and we start to become at risk of losing that intensity. I'm not going to get into the nitty-gritty but INTENSITY is where all the results live. It's the hardship that

Keep shaking that nonsense off from the Open! Haven't signed up for SugarWOD yet? Don't delay! Push Up 5s 4x2 - 1s Pause at the bottom of each squat WOD 5 AMRAPs 150m Row 10 SA DB Hang C&J (50/35) - Burpee Box Overs (24/20) - 20 T2B 20 Lunges - Wall Climbs

Great job to everyone on 19.1! It was a brutal WOD and everyone pushed hard to get the most out of it! Also, Congrats to MTM Friend, Joey Tortora, who's team qualified for the 2019 CrossFit Games this weekend! Finally, and most importantly, we're adding a service to MTM - SugarWOD. Go to the App store, download SugarWOD, select MTM CrossFit as your gym, and get to having an awesome time! SugarWOD does 2 main things: WOD tracking for you and a whiteboard for the gym. This means you will be able to keep track of your workout scores, lifts, PRs, etc right from your phone as well as see how others did throughout the day! Why the change? We're looking to add more and more to your workout expe

The Time is now, the Day is here. We're into the 2019 Open! The CrossFit Games, and by extension The Open, has always always had a fatal flaw: It's about finding the fittest on earth. That goal has nothing to do with being exciting, unique, fun, or a good show. It simply has to do with testing as many different variables as possible. As the Games grew somehow the events changed (especially on the team side) to be more spectacle and more show. Some are awesome like the various Swim and Bike events while others are down right painful to watch, like the 4hr marathon row snooze fest. This has left many many of us long term CrossFitters with a false sense of entitlement surrounding The Open -

Today is the day! The Open announcement is tonight at 8pm! Remember, the MTM Open is for fun, so HAVE FUN! Get together with your team and bust out the WOD on Friday (any class time) or Saturday at 9AM. Can't get everyone together at the same time? No worries, just get the workout done as you can. Bench Press for load: #1: 1 rep @ 90% #2: 3 reps @ 85% #3: 5 reps @ 80% #4: 8 reps @ 75% #5: 15 reps @ 70% WOD 4 AMRAP 30 Double Unders 100' Farmer's Carry (2/1.5p) - Rest 2 Min - 4 AMRAP 30 Bike Reps 10 HSPU - Rest 2 Min - 4 AMRAP 30 Lunges 10 DB Snatches (50/35)

Past the hard part of the week! On to the best part! 12 OTM 3R: 3 Squat Cleans & 2 Split Jerk (Warm Up for Technique) 3R: 2 Squat Clean & 2 Split Jerks (Increase but still Technique) 3R: 1 Squat Clean & 2 Split Jerks (Start Working Up in Weight Each Min) 3R: 1 Squat Clean & 1 Split Jerk (Building each min to a heavy Single) WOD 500m Row 15 C&J (165/110) 10 Muscle Ups

Great job yesterday! This week is going to be a little different because of the Open starting up. Which, no, doesn't mean we're not hitting those push up 5s! We are however at the 3rd week of our drop-set lifting. So next week we'll be going a little easier and then testing a heavy 1RM towards the end of next week or beginning of the following. Push UP 5s 8x2 WOD 15 AMRAP 10 OHS (135/95) 20 Burpee Box Overs (24/20)

The Open starts this week! We've got 13 or 14 teams. Still want to sign up? Get to the gym! All you need to be a part of the Open is do the workout on Friday or Saturday. Plan on working out on Friday? Then you'll be doing the Open workout anyway! All you need to do is sign up for a team! Today's Workout is a version of Eva. Eva T was one of the original CrossFit badasses way way way back in the day along with being an Olympic Skier. The success Coach Glassman had training Eva T, and her improvement in skiing as a result of that training, was part of the original argument for CrossFit as an effective training methodology - and that those physical improvements would translate beyond t

Its been a great week! Tough workouts met with great effort and enthusiasm! The Open starts in a week so we'll be shifting a little of our lifting to accommodate it. Sign up on the Whiteboard for a team! Bench Press 1 - 88.5% 2x3 - 82.5% 2x5 - 75% WOD Teams of 2 18 AMRAP 2+2 Squat Snatches (135/95) 2+2 Wall Climbs 40 Partner WB Sit Ups

Sign ups are on the Whiteboard at the gym, get your team now! 8 OTM 8 Burpee Box Overs (24/20) WOD "Cindy" 20 AMRAP 5 Pull Ups 10 Push Ups 15 Air Squats

It's been a brutal week so far! Keep it up, turn it up to 110%! The Open Rundown: - Open WODs released Thursday Night by CFHQ, Programmed for Friday's WOD - Open Event Saturday 9AM-Done (No 10AM), 11AM Free Class is a go - Team of 3 (1 RXd, 1 Scaled, 1 Either) - Team Sign Up on the Whiteboard today, fill in your team or join a team with a vacant slot. Here's the Deal: We're doing the MTM Open for fun. We'll do the same WODs CrossFit HQ releases Thursday Night. It'll be programmed as the gym's WOD all day Friday, then we'll do our Open Event Saturday morning at 9AM. You can do the workout at whatever time works for you, but it if possible plan on getting together with your team and doing

Fran with Burpees...Ouch! But you didn't let that stop you, you came in gave it your all and did your best! Push Up 5s (3x3) WOD 2 Rounds - 2 AMRAPs - 1 Min Rest Row (Cals) Box Overs (24/20) Power Snatches (135/95) T2B OHS (135/95)

Welcome to a brand new week! How are you going to make this week count? Back Squat 1 - 90% 2x3 - 82.5% 2x5 - 75% WOD 21-15-9 Squat Clean Thrusters (95/65) Pull Ups Burpees

Great work on a tough Open WOD yesterday! The Open starts in 2 weeks, how are your teams shaping up? Starting Monday we'll have a team sign up on the Whiteboard. Bench Press 1 - 88.5% 3 - 80% 2x5 - 75% WOD Teams of 2 6 Rounds - Complete the full round then switch 7 Bar Muscle Ups (90s Max) 50 Air Squats 500m Row (Or 100 Bike)

Crushing the week isn't for the weak. How are you improving? What steps are you taking to get where you want to go? 9 OTM 9 Burpees WOD Open 18.4 21-15-9 Deadlifts (225/155) HSPU - Then - 21-15-9 Deadlifts (315/205) 50' HS Walk (5' Segments) 9 Min Cap

Awesome job on yesterday's WOD! We're going to keep turning it up all week! Get ready! It's time to start getting your OPEN Teams together! How? Find 2 friends, one of you has to do all the WODs rx'd, another all scaled, and the last can do either. We'll have a team sign up at the gym later this week! 12 OTM 3R: 1 Power Snatch, 1 OHS, 1 Squat Snatch 3R: 3 Squat Snatches 6R: 1 Squat Snatch WOD 100 Lunges 80 Sit Ups 60 Box Jumps 40 Toe 2 Bar 20 SA OHS (1.5/1p) 10 Wall Climbs

Great job on the squats yesterday! We're gonna keep pushing hard today with another intense WOD. Push Up 5s (3x3) WOD 5 AMRAPs - 2 Min Rest Between 12/9 Cal Row 2+2 Squat Clean Thruster (135/95) - 25 Double Unders (12 Attempts) 1+1 Muscle Ups - 10 Burpees 5+5 DB Snatches (50/35)

The MTM Open: Starts - Feb 21 for 5 weeks Teams - of 3 (!) any gender mix, 1 athlete must be a scaled athlete and 1 must be Rx'd! Scores will be averaged across the athletes to rank teams WOD programmed on Fridays with 9AM OPEN events Saturday Morning. Time. To. Get. Excited! Post Activation Potentiation (PAP) - Without getting too technical, the heavier you lift the more muscle your central nervous system has to recruit to lift it. Once the central nervous system is primed with a heavy weight it keeps firing muscles at the higher level for a period of time. We're going to take advantage of that over the next squat and bench cycles with drop sets. You'll warm up with 3-5 sets working up

And just like that the week is over and the vortex has past! Come in, warm up and push hard! The Open starts in 21 days - We're going to do teams of 4 in the MTM Intramural Open. Full details on Monday! 7x1 Bench Press WOD Teams of 2 18 AMRAP 7 Lengths Shuttle Run 9 Burpee Box Overs 13 KBS (1.5/1p) **Complete the full round then switch**