The 2023 CrossFit Open provides athletes with varied specialties an opportunity to excel. Within the case of Graciano Rubio, that specialty is clearly, clearly, and overtly, an unbelievable amount of strength and a capability to determine gargantuan lifts that don’t appear replicable by every other CrossFitter on the planet.
Workout 23.2 was a two-part problem introduced on Feb. 23, 2023, in Midland Park, NJ. Half A was a mix AMRAP (as many rounds as doable) of accelerating burpee pull-ups and shuttle runs, and Half B comprised a max thruster established in a five-minute time cap. Whereas making ready for this exercise, Rubio printed a video to his Instagram web page whereby he hoisted a jaw-slacking 183.7-kilogram (405-pound) thruster. Test it out beneath:
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Rubio wore a lifting belt and wrist wraps throughout the above elevate. He managed to safe the weight overhead and had such command of it that he did a cheeky entrance kick to cap the elevate, sustaining the load momentarily on one leg.
2023 CrossFit Open — Exercise 23.2
For reference, right here is exercise 23.2:
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Though the outcomes weren’t but official on the time of this text’s publication, Rubio topped the CrossFit leaderboard for Half B of 23.2 with a 170.1-kilogram (375-pound) thruster.
Whereas that’s 30 kilos lesser than he locked out in training, it was nonetheless essentially the most vital elevate throughout all CrossFitters collaborating within the Open worldwide after quarter-hour of burpee pull-ups and shuttle runs blowing up coronary heart charges and engines in all places. Listed here are the top-scoring athletes from Exercise 23.2 Half B:
2023 CrossFit Open Exercise Outcomes — Exercise 23.2 | Half B — Males’s Rx’d Division
- Graciano Rubio — 375 kilos
- Brett Pressley — 360 kilos
- Martin Feiferlík — 337 kilos
- Griffin Roelle — 336 kilos
- Jacob Pfaff — 330 kilos
- Ioannis Papadopoulos — 330 kilos
- Rodrigo Daniel Orlando — 330 kilos
- Throstur Olason — 328 kilos
- Maximilian Vargas — 328 kilos
- Andrew Hearn — 327 kilos
Rubio ranked 72,402nd worldwide in Half A, reaching 119 reps. Take a look at Rubio’s workout-winning thruster within the video beneath:
[Related: 2023 CrossFit Open Workout 23.1 Results — Emma Cary and Roman Khrennikov Top the Leaderboards]
Exercise 23.3 To Come
The ultimate exercise of the 2023 CrossFit Open can be introduced on March 2, 2023. 2022 CrossFit Video games runner-up Mal O’Brien will go head-to-head in opposition to Danielle Brandon at CrossFit Omaha in Omaha, NE.
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