The 2019 CrossFit Open is almost over. The 19.5 live announcement is tonight and in a couple days all of the focus will be on the remaining Sanctional events and the CrossFit Games.
With 19.5 coming right up, we have gathered five facts about the final week of the CrossFit Open.
In 2011, the Open was actually six weeks.
2011 was the first year of the Open. In that first year the Open actually spanned six workouts. The next year, 2012, it was shortened to five weeks where it has remained ever since.
Thrusters have always been in the final week.
We all know it. Thrusters have always been in the final workout of the Open. Whether paired with chest-to-bar pull-ups, rowing, burpees or double-unders, thrusters have been at the heart of every “.5” Open workout.
Last year there was almost an exception, but the fans of CrossFit made sure thrusters were part of the Open in 2018.
It has always been a couplet.
The final Open workout each year has been a couplet. Whether it was an ascending ladder of thrusters and chest-to-bar pull-ups or 21-18-15-12-9-6-3 of thrusters and burpees, there have only been two movements in the final WOD.
Last year the community voted on 18.5.
Dave Castro opened up the programming for 18.5 by allowing fans to vote which workout would close out the 2018 CrossFit Open. The three workouts to choose from were [1] a 7-min AMRAP of thrusters and CTB pull-ups via an ascending ladder, [2] a “4-minute gated” workout of 15 thrusters and 15 CTB pull-ups and [3] a “3-minute gated” workout of overhead squats and CTB pull-ups via an ascending ladder.
Fans ended up voting for #1, the 7-min AMRAP of thrusters and CTB pull-ups.
The first “for time” workout was 14.5.
Prior to 14.5 no Open workout was “for time”. The Open had relied solely on AMRAPs up to that point. That is, until Dave Castro shocked the CrossFit world with a couplet of thrusters and burpees (21-18-15-12-9-6-3).
Check out the announcement from that year (the video starts at the announcement).
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