Nicole Carroll’s Tips for Week 3 of the Open

Here we are: the final workout (or is it workouts?) of the 2021 NOBULL CrossFit Open. Create a solid game plan and stick to it. Focus on how you’ll minimize rest during 21.3, and how you can prevent wasting time and having to make too many decisions during 21.4. Success in this one starts with the warm-up. You’re going to go from light load and metabolic stress immediately into a heavy lift. You have to prepare for this in the warm-up. Get a feel for the lifting complex and grease the groove — especially for the clean and jerk. Warm up squat cleans, power cleans, and whatever kind of jerk you’ll be using in the workout. At a minimum, during the warm-up, you should hit the heaviest weight that you are 100 percent confident you can hit in the workout. You should set up for at least three lifts: • One weight you can definitely hit. • One weight that is challenging but doable. • One weight that is a stretch, but you’ve got it on a good day, and maybe, just maybe, the magic of the Open will carry yo