The 2016 CrossFit Games Open 16.2 was just announced and it's a doozy! If you loved our 16.1 strategy, you'll love our 16.2 strategy. Check out our breakdown below:

16.2

25 toe to bar
50 double unders
15 squat cleans (135/85)

If you can't complete one round in 4 minutes, your score is the total amount of reps completed in 4 minutes. If you can complete it all in 4 minutes, you get another 4 minutes to complete the following:

25 toe to bar
50 double unders
13 squat cleans (185/11)

If you can complete that in 4 minutes you get another four minutes to complete:

25 toe to bar
50 double unders
11 squat cleans (225/145)

If you can complete that in 4 minutes you get another 4 minutes to complete:

25 toe to bar
50 double unders
9 squat cleans (275/175)

If you can complete that in 4 minutes you get another 4 minutes to complete:

25 toe to bar
50 double unders
7 squat cleans (315/205)

If you can complete that your score is the TOTAL TIME it takes to complete that last clean.

Important notes: you DO NOT need to stop if you complete the round before the 4-minute window is up, you can continue on immediately into the next round. Also, you can have help loading your bar and also have multiple bars preloaded.

16.2 scores to beat

Dan Bailey: 19:58
Bjorgvin Karl Gudmundsson: 428 reps (2 short of finishing)

16.2 strategy

Ho. Lee. Eff. I'll be honest: this might be one of my favorite Open workouts ever. It's an absolutely devastating combination of strength, muscle endurance, and poise and it's beautiful.

This workout is going to tear some people up. Here's the deal: pick SMART sets on the toe to bars because that's going to be a huge key to this workout. At this point you should already have double unders so if you can pace yourself well through the toe to bar you're going to have time and focus to knock out the double unders no problem.

As far as the cleans go, singles, singles, singles. Quick, well-paced singles will be the key to continuing on through this workout all the way from the very beginning. If you can have someone help load the weights for you, then do that for sure. Obviously, that will make a MASSIVE difference for your time and ability to actually get into the bar more quickly.

Here's how you fail this workout: big sets on the toe to bar, big sets on the cleans. 

Have fun out there!

More 16.2 tips

The Lifting Fix:

TZ Strength:

Although the cleans are challenging, much of this workout is about managing the toes-to-bar correctly. Stay within your capacity, breaking sets as needed but keeping rest disciplined, so that you are able to maintain your pace across rounds. These are going to add up fast. By the time you get to the fourth round, you’ll have already done seventy-five reps. That’s no joke.

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