The Difference A Year Makes - Recap of 15.3 Re-Test

The Difference A Year Makes – Recap of 15.3 Re-Test
Written by Hunter Britt

Last week we gave everyone a chance to tackle event 15.3 from last year’s CrossFit Games Open. This is an event we think is likely to come back in 2016, so we were extremely excited to see countless PR’s coming in. Here is a short list of some of the impressive improvements that we saw come in through the blog comments…all reflective of the athletes’ hard work and consistency in the gym!

Invictus Athlete Program

Charlie Wells +314 reps (315 – crushing muscle-ups now!)
Allison Roman +160 reps (161 – progress!)
Alan Hicks +177 reps (191)
Joey Burns +84 reps (474)
Sean Cather +71 reps (422)
Jennifer Haley +56 (306)
Kyle McDermid +55 reps (485)
Gary Featherstone +53 reps (433)
Alyssa Christian +38 reps (356)
Barrett Danz +29 reps (474)
Jeffrey Perez +28 reps (484)
Andrew Malek-Zadeh +23 (498)
Jonathan Stuart +21 reps (502)

Special congratulations to Charlie Wells and Allison Roman for not only beating their score, but going from 1 rep each during last year’s Open to improving their scores by 314 reps and 160 reps, respectively. Great work on the improvement guys!

Competition Blog

Kyle Krancher +157 reps (314)
Libby Lee +152 reps (315)
Jane Robertson +126 reps (286)
Michael P +111 reps (494)
Steven Jaimes (Invictus San Diego) +106 reps (477)
Dean Akin +104 reps (474)
Gary Stallings +100 reps (423)
Anthony Oriotti +99 reps (349)
Brandon Palmer +88 reps (441)
Christina Harris +86 reps (300)
Sean Ranney +85 reps (456)
Tulle Weisbjerg +53 reps (371)
Josh Marshall (Invictus San Diego) + 35 reps (501)
Leif Erik +30 reps (475)
Matt Irwin +10 reps (484)
John Bartlett +9 reps (496)

Also, for impressive performances, congratulations to Josh Marshall and Steven Jaimes. These two attend our competition classes here at Invictus, show up everyday, and work their tails off. Josh broke into the 500’s for reps and Steven managed to complete 3+ rounds and finish with an improvement of 106 reps.

There were also some huge PR’s from our in-house Invictus Athletes. A large portion of those PR’s were due to the improvement on the muscle up portion of the workout, thanks to the gymnastics training provided by our very own gymnastics coach, Travis Ewart. Here are the improvements seen:

Invictus In-House Athletes

Heather Hippensteel +109 reps (472)
Maddy Myers +103 reps (577)
Nuno Costa (7x Games Team Athlete) +74 reps (609)
Hunter Britt +65 reps (628)
Holden Rethwill +43 reps (517)
Lauren Fisher +31 reps (508)
Bryce Smith +23 reps (495)
Tino Marini +16 reps
Jack Bernstein +14 reps (518)
Kim McLaughlin +155 reps (315)
Lisa O’Kane +155 reps

Huge shout out to Nuno Costa, who is a 7x Games athlete as a member of our team, will be competing in his 8th season of CrossFit and continues to crush massive PRs. He is the model of consistency and smart training. He leads by example and is as inspiring as any athlete we’ve had the pleasure of working with.

Best of luck to everyone as we continue to near the Open and enjoy the time you have in the gym. We are very excited to watch your progress so keep us updated on how you are doing by posting daily on the blog!