CrossFit Open 18.0, Pressures of Programming and Fighting Mat Fraser - Dave Castro - #003

Dave Castro opens by explaining where 18.0 came from: an idea he says had been floating in his head for years, doing a workout before the Open itself starts, which CrossFit had never prioritised executing. Reebok asked him to build an event around it, and the result was a pre-Open announcement. His description of the design constraint is the useful part. The workout had to be "true for CrossFit": simple, with two movements that are common to the Open but carry a different twist, a dumbbell snatch with a new standard and a burpee over the dumbbell.