Noah Ohlsen was the one consistent name in the top 5 of the CrossFit Atlantic Regional. Not only was Ohlsen in the top 5, moved up to 1st after Event 3 and never looked back. But last night, we found out that this dominant performance almost never happened.
According to Ohlsen, “A little over two weeks prior to the competition, I tore my right pec doing intervals of dumbbell snatches and ring dips. While it was minor, it was so painful that I couldn’t even do a burpee, let alone support myself on the rings.”
Ohlsen and his coach, Max El-Hag of Training Think Tank, focused on letting his pec heal while trying to maintain his fitness. Finally by Wednesday Ohlsen was able to do slow, strict dips. However, he still was unsure whether he would hold up through 45 ring dips in a competition.
Luckily, Ohlsen’s pec held up and he finished Event 2 “unscathed”. It was his worst performance of the weekend, 13th, but it wouldn’t matter as the rest of the weekend went to plan and he stayed above the pandemonium that would go on with the rest of the leaderboard (i.e. Ben Smith’s comeback and Travis Mayer’s Event 6 heroics).
