Open 23.1
A grueling chipper from the 2023 Open. Row, toes-to-bar, wall balls, cleans, and muscle-ups.
- Format
- AMRAP
- Time cap
- 14 mins
- Level
- advanced
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Open 23.1 is an AMRAP workout by Fiz, built from 5 movements, with a 14 mins cap. It is set at advanced level.
About Open 23.1
Open 23.1 is a fourteen minute effort through sixty calories on the rower, fifty toes-to-bar, forty wall balls, thirty cleans and twenty muscle-ups. It opened the 2023 qualifying season, and it is built as a ladder of difficulty rather than a ladder of reps.
The workout gets harder as the reps get fewer
Read the movement order and the design becomes obvious. Each block has fewer reps than the last and each is harder than the last, so the descending numbers are not relief, they are a warning. Nearly everybody reaches the wall balls. A smaller group reaches the cleans. The muscle-ups exist so that the top of the field has somewhere to separate, and for the majority of athletes the real score is how deep into the fourth block they get before the clock stops.
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Row slower than you want to
Sixty calories is the only part of this workout where going fast feels good, and it is the place that most reliably ruins the rest of it. Athletes who attack the row arrive at fifty toes-to-bar unable to hold a rhythm, and toes-to-bar is a movement that punishes a wrecked grip more than almost anything else. Row at a pace you could hold for twice the distance, break the toes-to-bar into planned sets from the first rep, and treat the wall balls as the place to make time, because they are the last movement in the workout that most people can do continuously.
What's a good Open 23.1 score
Finishing all two hundred reps inside the cap is an elite result. Reaching the cleans is a strong score for a competitive athlete, and getting through the wall balls, roughly one hundred and fifty reps, is a good result for a consistent recreational athlete. Because the blocks get harder rather than easier, your score here is a fairly precise statement about which skill is currently your ceiling, which makes it an unusually informative workout to repeat.