Tommy V
A Hero WOD honoring Senior Chief Petty Officer Thomas Valentine, a Navy SEAL killed in a training accident in 2008. A descending ladder of thrusters and rope climbs.
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Tommy V is a for-time workout by Fiz, built from 6 movements. It is set at advanced level.
About Tommy V
Tommy V is a descending ladder of thrusters and rope climbs: twenty-one thrusters and twelve rope climbs, then fifteen and nine, then nine and six. It honours Special Warfare Operator Senior Chief Petty Officer Thomas J. Valentine, a U.S. Navy SEAL who died in a free-fall parachute training accident in Arizona in February 2008.
A heavy barbell against a lot of rope
The thruster load here is heavier than most conditioning workouts use, which changes the character of the whole piece. Twenty-one thrusters at that weight is a genuine strength effort, and it comes first, before twelve rope climbs that need the grip and shoulders it just spent. That order is the whole difficulty: every rope climb in the first block is done on arms that have been holding a front rack, and every thruster in the second block is done on a grip that has been climbing.
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The first twenty-one decides the workout
Go into the opening thrusters with a plan to break them, probably into three sets, and stick to it even though the first eight will feel easy. Athletes who push for a big unbroken opening set arrive at twelve rope climbs with nothing to hold on with, and twelve climbs done badly can take longer than the entire rest of the workout. On the rope, use a proper foot lock every single cycle and descend under control rather than sliding. The last two blocks are short enough to push once you can see the end.
What's a good Tommy V time
Eighteen minutes is a strong Tommy V and thirteen is near the top of the field, but a lot of people who attempt it as written are closer to forty, and the reason is almost always that they went unbroken on the opening twenty-one thrusters. Scale the barbell rather than the rope volume if you need to. A heavy front rack draining the grip before you touch the rope is the entire mechanism of this workout, and a light bar turns it into an ordinary couplet that happens to have rope climbs in it.