Dave Castro has stored up his annual custom of offering weekly clues forward of every of the 2024 CrossFit Open exercise bulletins. And, as custom dictates, the clues have been head-scratchers.
His 24.3 clue is a video of a canine tearing right into a rooster leg, filmed from beneath.
Inside an hour of going up on Instagram, the video had greater than 1,000 feedback, with many merely poking enjoyable on the seemingly random clip. However amongst these, there have been a number of individuals genuinely making an attempt to decipher Dave’s newest submit.
A repeat of a two-part Open exercise from 2021—21.3 and 21.4—is proving to be one of many extra in style selections.
CrossFit Open exercise 21.3 sees you deal with three rounds of 15 entrance squats, 30 reps of a gymnastic motion and 15 thrusters for time, with a compulsory minute of relaxation after the primary two.
Every spherical, the gymnastic motion will increase in problem. In spherical one it’s toes-to-bar, in spherical two it’s chest-to-bar pull-ups and in spherical three it’s bar muscle-ups. There’s a 15-minute time cap.
Instantly after the quarter-hour is up, you may launch into 21.4. Right here, you might have seven minutes to hit a fancy of 1 deadlift, one clear, one dangle clear and one jerk utilizing the heaviest weight doable.
Different commenters have gone for a extra linear strategy to guessing—”Time to let the large canine eat! Deliver on the heavy barbell.”—whereas a number of urged the inclusion of a rooster leg meant our decrease our bodies are in for a battering.
Present third-fittest lady on earth Arielle Loewen additionally chipped in, writing: “Rooster wing = bar muscle-ups. Canine = You gotta have that canine in you to do good on this exercise.”
The ultimate exercise of the 2024 CrossFit Open will probably be revealed this Thursday throughout a dwell announcement present. This will probably be streamed on the CrossFit Video games web site and YouTube channel, with the present beginning at 11.30am PST (7.30pm GMT) and the exercise being unveiled about half-hour in.
Arielle Loewen will then go head-to-head with six-time CrossFit Video games champ Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr because the pair turn out to be the primary individuals to face the exercise.