Open 17.5
Ten rounds of nine thrusters and thirty-five double-unders for time. A relentless Open classic with a 40-minute cap.
- Format
- For Time
- Time cap
- 40 mins
- Level
- advanced
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Open 17.5 is a for-time workout by Fiz, built from 2 movements, with a 40 mins cap. It is set at advanced level.
About Open 17.5
Open 17.5 is ten rounds of nine thrusters and thirty-five double-unders. It closed the 2017 qualifying season and it is one of the cleanest repeatable tests in the catalogue: two movements, a fixed structure, and a load light enough that the workout is genuinely about capacity rather than strength.
Ninety thrusters at a light bar is not a light workout
The load looks unthreatening and it is, for the first three rounds. The trouble is that ninety thrusters is a lot of reps at any weight, and they are broken up by three hundred and fifty double-unders that keep the heart rate pinned rather than letting it settle. The result is a workout with no natural rest anywhere in it. Every round is short enough that stopping feels avoidable and long enough that by round six it stops feeling that way.
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Nine unbroken, ten times
The target is simple to state and hard to hold: nine unbroken thrusters every round. Athletes who achieve that finish several minutes ahead of athletes who go unbroken for five rounds and then break into fives and fours. To make it possible, go slower in rounds one to three than feels right and rest for a beat before picking the bar up rather than mid-set. On the rope, a steady cadence with no trips beats a fast one with two, and the hands drifting wide as you tire is the single most common cause of a miss.
What's a good Open 17.5 time
Ten minutes is a strong 17.5 and the sharp end went under seven, with fourteen to twenty covering most people. What makes it worth writing down is that both movements respond quickly to training and the structure never varies, so a repeat three months later tells you something specific. If your time drops and your thruster sets held, that is capacity. If it drops because you stopped tripping on the rope, that is skill. Very few workouts separate those two cleanly, and this one does.