20.5 Mobility & Warmup Guide
20.5 Mobility & Warmup Routine Mobility work to save your shoulders & help you fly through those wall balls. There’s plenty to test your shoulders in this workout, so we want to ensure good positions especially under fatigue. There’s also a lot on squatting during the 120 wall balls so we want to move any potentially restriction in the hips and ankles, so you can move efficiently and ensure you don’t waste energy or miss reps. Mobility Video: We’ll start … read more
20.4 Mobility & Warmup Guide
20.4 Mobility & Warmup Routine Make sure 20.4 doesn’t crush you This workout will crush you if you don’t warm up effectively. Mobility Video: This mobility & warm up guide will make sure your shoulders are open and your wrists are properly prepped to make the jerks easier. We’ll also help improve your mobility for those clean and jerks as well as those dreaded pistols by working on your glute activation and ankle dorsiflexion. Weighted Mobility: After the mobility guide … read more
Mobility, Warmup & Strategy CF Open 20.3
Open 20.3 Mobility, Warmup and Strategy Guide Are you fitter than 18.4?: Open workout 20.3 requires a lot of pretty heavy deadlifts. Activating and mobilising your posterior chain will help you survive a lot of hip hinging. The HSPU movement standards and handstand walks mean we’ll need to open the shoulders and mobilise the upper back to help you feel long and decrease the likelihood of no reps as you fatigue. On the plus side, this is a very different … read more
World Record Deadlift 500KG
This weekend Eddie Hall broke the deadlift World record and deadlifted 500kg. Eddie became only the second man to lift 500KG in a sanctioned competition. The first was GLC2000 athlete Tiny Meeker who bench pressed 500kg back in 2013. [embedyt] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9Y4o_BqC0A[/embedyt] Tiny Meeker’s Story Tiny had an almost career ending car crash where he thought he may never be able to bench press again: Tiny says “I’ve been using GLC2000 years. Over 5 years ago I gave GLC2000 the ultimate … read more
Interview: Emma McQuaid
Talking training, overcoming injuries and mental preparedness with the 12th fittest women in the Crossfit Open Emma McQuaid is one of the fittest women in the UK, Europe and according to this years Crossfit Open placings, now the World. Whilst on a Regionals training camp in the USA we get a chance to chat with Emma about her impressive performance in the Athlete Games, and how she is preparing for her second Meridian Regional. You’ve had quite a few months … read more
Jamie Verden
Competitive Crossfit After An ACL Rupture As a competitive athlete I have put my body through a whole whirl wind of stressful situations, not only physically but mentally. For sure competing at a high level takes its toll and after years and years of competitive football, rugby and CrossFit something had to give! I suffered with a ruptured ACL which put me out of action for a good while along with patella tendonitis; this was not the recipe for success. … read more
Sonny Webster
94KG U23 British Snatch & Total Record Holder When I am training I always struggle with knees, especially when volume ramps up ahead of a competition. I heard lots of really positive things about GLC2000, so wanted to try them in the lead up to the IWF Houston Worlds. My preparation for the Worlds went great, and all my joints felt really good considering the training volume I was doing, especially my knees. Overall I was pretty happy with my … read more
Spencer Whiteley
‘GLC2000 helps keeps my aches at bay, and keeps me crossfitting’ My name is Spencer Whiteley and I have been doing CrossFit now for just short of three years. I stumbled across Crossfit as I found a box whilst looking for a new gym soon after leaving the Army after 15 years service. I left the Army due to the result of a near fatal injury whilst serving in Iraq in 2007, for which I needed to spend 3 years … read more
Tez Anderson
“Long term knee tendinitis left me unable to squat” I’d been struggling with tendinitis in my left knee for a long time. I’d continued to train and put up with the discomfort during my workouts and soreness for the next couple of days after. Over time my body naturally compensated and began to cause issues with my right hip. It started to affect more than my training and recovery, both my knee and hip began to hurt if I drove … read more
Dean Hurley
[column-half-1][/column-half-1][column-half-2] ‘My knee and shoulder problems have improved massively in just one tub of GLC2000.’ I’ve been struggling with knee pain for a number of years. Over the past 6 months it has been progressively getting worse, I even started getting pain doing simple things like walking up the stairs. This had a huge effect on my CrossFit training. A couple of years ago I had an operation to realign my patella in both knees. I’ve also had poor shoulder … read more
Tim Hickford – Saxon Crossfit
Crossfit coach & athlete reversing knee pain when squatting & lunging “I have always struggled with knee pain when heavy squatting or lunging. No amount of mobility, knee sleeves or physio seemed to improve the issue. As I began lifting more and more what was once an annoying dull ache developed into acute pain which prevented me from lifting. I was introduced to GLC2000 in summer 2014 when GLC2000 contacted me with regards to stocking the supplement at my box, … read more
Allison White
Shoulder pain used to keep my up at night I’ve been suffering ongoing shoulder problems for years. I’d get terrible pain and weakness, certain movements proved especially painful like snatch, toes to bar and even burpees hurt! They were also sore at night often waking me and ruining my sleep, I was not only in pain but exhausted too. It became a vicious cycle of resting my shoulders then training them only for them to become sore again. I became … read more
Richard Hornsey
‘It’s a game changer for CrossFitters’ I’m a 32 year old male that’s battled through all sorts of aches and pains for years through my career in the army and through CrossFit trying to keep up with my 22 year old training partner. I can honestly say that without GLC2000 I would not be able to train at the intensity that I do and in some cases even peel myself out of bed I a morning! It’s a game changer … read more
Lianne Thomas
‘I stopped taking GLC2000 and noticed my mobility began to decrease again’ I started taking GLC2000 back last year. Having competed at sport from a very young age, the impact had finally taken its toll on my joints so arthritis kicked in early. Arthritis is becoming more and more common in athletes and so quality supplements like GLC2000 are key. It was only when I stopped taking GLC2000, that I realised how good it had actually been. I tried a … read more
Carl Coates
Crossfit All Out member testimonial ‘I couldn’t reach full depth on my squat before GLC2000’ I’m 48yrs old and I’ve been doing CrossFit for around 16 months now. I have struggled with knee & elbow joint pain, which has meant I’ve not been able to get full depth on squats & had severe pain in my knees when running. I was introduced to GLC2000 at battle of the beasts. At first I was a bit unsure about it, thinking it’s … read more
Freya Lees
[column-half-1][/column-half-1] [column-half-2] ‘There’s nothing that treats aching joints as well’ I started taking GLC2000 about 18 months ago after being recommended to by my CrossFit coach. I have always found staying injury free a challenge frequently experienced aches and pains due to my physically demanding job in the Royal Air Force in addition to my intense CrossFit training programme. I have now realised I need to look after my body to make sure I maintain both of these without sustaining … read more
Crossfit West Dublin
GLC2000 – NOT JUST FOR THE ELITE ATHLETE By Lorna Heyes – Owner of Crossfit West Dublin GLC2000 has helped elite competitive Athletes across the globe, across a wide range of sports, however GLC2000 is not just for the high end athlete. Why should ordinary regular recreational athletes like myself miss out on the benefits GLC2000 brings. As Owner of CrossFit West Dublin I have seen and tried many supplements during my sporting and Coaching life, since I was feeling … read more
Jordan Wallace
“By the end of the my fourth week of taking GLC2000 there was a lot less discomfort in my wrist and my range of motion had improved noticeably” During the 2014 Crossfit Regionals I injured my wrist during a handstand walk which was the 2nd workout. It was painful throughout the rest of the two day competition, and the next day I could barely move it. Four months after regionals and there was hardly any improvement. This meant I’d not … read more
Simon Thomson
‘I no longer get a sore elbow after pullups or heavy overhead work’ For the past few months I’d been getting a sore elbow which would cause me to have to stop training for the best part of a week. It seemed like high repetition pull ups, or heavy overhead work like Jerks would set it off. It would start by throbbing from the outside of the elbow and over the next few days spread across my entire elbow joint. … read more
Emma McQuaid
‘Rebuilding the highest placing British female in the European Region open’ I’ve been a competitive quad bike racer for most of my life. So I’ve always been competitive. I was the rank in the top 10 in the UK and only raced against guys. I used to travel across the world for quad races, and it was whilst doing a strength & conditioning session in the USA that I was first exposed to Crossfit. Since about 2013 I’ve taken a … read more
Ben Stroud
Dealing with multiple knee surgeries ‘After two weeks I couldn’t believe the difference in all my joints’ My first major injury was a patella tendon rupture 4 years ago under a 125kg split jerk. I’d always suffered from bad knees since playing years of basketball. I literally ripped my kneecap off. My rehab was very painful and slow as you could imagine and it never really fully healed. It took me about 2 years to get my first pistol squat … read more
Angelo Flammia
‘The Difference to my Elbow Tendinitis is Amazing’ Just under a year ago I decided to concentrate on improving my Gymnastics. Being a heavier Athlete this was something that had always been a weakness of mine and in a short period of time I went from doing very basic gymnastics movements as they came up in workouts to high volume strict Gymnastics including legless rope climbs, weighted pull ups, lots of Strict Holds and Ring work on a daily Basis. … read more
Ryan Wells
Dealing with ‘Golfer’s Elbow’ I’d been struggling with ‘golfers’ elbow for around 4 months before I started using GLC2000. The soreness was brought on by any high rep work with movements like CTB pull-ups, rope climbs or muscle ups. When the tendinitis flared up I would struggle to train for the next few days. Even without a flare up there was a dull ache on the inner crease of my elbow. After 10 day of using GLC2000 I’d not get … read more
Alec Harwood
‘Overcoming Painful Wrist Mobility Issues’ I have struggled with tight wrists and shoulders ever since I started crossfit and weightlifting.The worst part for me was the dorsiflexion of my wrists being in a push up or handstand push up was tricky and often painful. “specialists told me to rest or stay away from stressful positions” I saw a few different specialists that told me to rest or stay away from any stressful positions. It got to the point where to … read more
Katie Calvert
GLC2000 gives me the confidence to train heavy again At the age of 16 I was training hard to become an Olympic cyclist on the british cycling Olympic Development Programme. The year before I gained my place on the programme I ruptured my PCL (knee ligament) during a training exercise at the velodrome, this meant being in a brace for 4 months as well as extensive therapy to get my quads strong enough to return to competitive cycling. I fought … read more