Battle in the Valley 2023; Finding the fittest pound for pound athletes in the West

Event 2 of the 2023 Battle in the Valley is: “Axle Rows”

Event 2 is your floater workout. At the beginning of the workout, one athlete will be seated on the rower with legs fully extended. The other athlete will be standing tall behind the axle bar. The weight on the axle bar will be chosen by the team. Once the event begins, the weight on the bar cannot be changed.

At the call of 3,2,1, GO, the team will have 6 minutes to accumulate as many calories as possible on the rower and the total weight lifted on the axle bar deadlift. Teams can switch as often as they would like in the 6 minutes.

Touch-and-go or singles for deadlifts are allowed. If dropped from the top, the bar has to come back to complete rest before the next rep can be executed.

Your floater workout will have two scores. Total poundage lifted (weight x reps) and total calories rowed.

Event 2 of the 2023 Battle in the Valley is: “Axle Rows”

Event 2 is your floater workout. At the beginning of the workout, one athlete will be seated on the rower with legs fully extended. The other athlete will be standing tall behind the axle bar. The weight on the axle bar will be chosen by the team. Once the event begins, the weight on the bar cannot be changed.

At the call of 3,2,1, GO, the team will have 6 minutes to accumulate as many calories as possible on the rower and the total weight lifted on the axle bar deadlift. Teams can switch as often as they would like in the 6 minutes.

Touch-and-go or singles for deadlifts are allowed. If dropped from the top, the bar has to come back to complete rest before the next rep can be executed.

Your floater workout will have two scores. Total poundage lifted (weight x reps) and total calories rowed.

Event 4 of Battle in the Valley 2023 is

“Burn it Down”

On the call of 3, 2, 1, each team will complete a rep scheme of

21-15-9

of

Echo Bike cals

Synchro Box Jump

And

Synchro alternating dumbbell snatch

Both partners will bike at the same time.

For the synchro box jumpovers, both partners must be on the same side of the box at the same time before proceeding to the next rep. Box height will be at 30 inches for the men and 24 inches for the women for the RX division and 24 inches and 20 inches for the Masters and scaled division. Both the masters and scaled can step over if desired.

For the synchro alternating dumbbell snatch, both partners must have the dumbbell overhead at the same time. The weight of the dumbbell will be 70 pounds for the men at 50 pounds for the women for the RX division. Both the masters and scaled divisions will use 40 pounds for the men and 30 pounds for the women. 

This workout has an 8-minute time cap. One second will be added for each incomplete rep.

If there is any time remaining, teams will bike for cals. Every 5 cals takes 1 second off your team's total time.

Hopper Triplet 

At the beginning of the workout, each athlete will be standing tall behind their barbell

On the call of 3,2,1 GO, Teams will complete a rep scheme of

10,8,6,4,2

Thrusters at 70% of the individual’s body weight, rounded to the nearest 5 lbs.

Bar muscle ups

And

5,4,3,2,1,

Of wall-walk + wall-facing handstand pushup

The workout will be completed waterfall style, with partner 1 completing the thrusters first, then partner 2 completing their thrusters, then moving in the same fashion for the bar muscle-ups and wall-walk + wall facing handstand pushup.

For Scaled and master’s divisions, the teams will complete the same rep scheme of

thruster weight at 50% of the individual’s bodyweight. rounded to the nearest 5 lbs.

Chin over the bar pullups

And burpee wall walks.

Time cap for this workout is 12 minutes. One second will be added for each rep not completed. 

Event 1 of the 2023 Battle in the Valley is: “Where Da Weights At?

At the start of the event, both team members will be standing behind their empty barbells.

At the call of 3,2,1 GO the team will have 12 minutes to establish a two-rep max touch & go clean & jerk and a two-rep max touch and go snatch. The team will decide which member completes what lift.

Any full version of the clean and jerk is allowed and any version of the snatch is allowed. No hang cleans or snatches allowed. Complete control must me shown at the top of each rep. Team members may assist their partner in loading and adjusting weight up or down as desired. A minimum of 5-pound adjustments may be made. (2.5 on each side)

Once the first team member has reached their two rep max in their chosen lift, then the other member may load their bar and continue the process until time expires.

For example, if partner 1 uses 8 minutes to establish their 2 rep max, then their partner only has the remaining 4 minutes to hit their 2 rep max.

The athlete can rest and/or regrip at any point during the narural path of the lift. The bar cannot rest on the ground. As long as the bar breaks contact from the ground before time expires AND the complex is completed successfully, that lift will count.

Score is total weight lifted divided by total team body weight.