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
Relson Gracie
“I highly approve, and respect the results of GLC2000” Relson Gracie: 22 Years Undefeated National Champion in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Master Relson Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy Honolulu Life on the mats is real tough. Competition pushes your body very hard. Contusions come every day ankle locks, knee and shoulder locks inflict great damage on your joints. I have dislocated years ago and it has been an ongoing problem ever since. I tried everything including Cortisone shots with only temporary results; still the … read more
Darren Stiles
“GLC2000 is helping my shoulder & recovery” Having read testimonials about GLC2000 it all seemed a bit too good to be true. However a lot of the people that were gushing about this product, were people within my industry that I respected. I am a Weightlifting coach and personal trainer, with a competitive powerlifting background. I am competitive by nature, and have done well in previous masters competitions. But the last year or so I had become very injury prone; … read more
Jules Sterling
I avoided a serious shoulder operation with GLC2000 After a year of shoulder pain I am finally back to full training with no discomfort and more importantly NO OPERATION …. Unbelievable! I have been dealing with a severely inflamed AC joint for the past year. Scans showed that there was bone-on-bone contact on overhead movements. It was recommended that I have surgery to shave away some of the excess…. (or give up weight training – ha!) I’d heard a few … read more
Recurring Hamstring Injury
The probable suspects: Hamstring Injury What causes recurrent sporting injuries? Why is it important to think outside the box- look away from the area of injury? Sometimes even when we feel we have done the optimal rehab for an injury such as a hamstring strain or ankle sprain, these injuries keep on coming back to haunt us. It can sometimes be very important to look at different areas of the kinetic chain to see how your own entire movement patterns … read more
Melissa Henderson
‘How GLC helped me avoid shoulder & hip surgery’ GLC2000 – “My genie in a bottle” Surgery seemed like the only option I had left to deal with my shoulder issues, but it wasn’t a road I was ready to travel down. When I heard about GLC2000 in October this year, I decided I had to give it a try. I suffered a complete labrum tear and damage to the subscapularis when I dislocated my shoulder doing a demonstration in … read more
Common Crossfit Injuries: Shoulder Impingement Part 2
Shoulder Impingement Exercises Rehab and Prehab Preventing shoulder impingement is obviously better than curing it. Below is a selection of exercises that will improve shoulder stability and strengthen the shoulder external rotators these can be used to try and prevent shoulder impingements occurring or to rehab shoulder impingement injuries that you are already dealing with. In Common Crossfit Injuries: Shoulder Impingement Part 1 we looked at what shoulder impingement essentially is and analysed some of the predisposing factors that can … read more
Jane Holgate
“My joint pain was gone within hours of my first dose” Diary of a Crossfit Master – Part 1 To be honest the tub of GLC2000 could not have arrived at a better time. I have been struggling with a shoulder injury for several months, and although this was showing a marked improvement and I was feeling a lot happier about training on it, I was still conscious of some dull aches when I did certain exercise such as press … read more
Glucosamine and Strength Training
GLUCOSAMINE AND STRENGTH TRAINING: Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine. 22(3):290-292, May 2012. doi: 10.1097/JSM.0b013e318256e75f Objective: To compare the effects on muscle cross-sectional area (CSA) strength, and function, of treatment with ibuprofen, glucosamine, or placebo in addition to a strength training program, in older adults with knee osteoarthritis (OA). Design: Randomized, controlled, double-blinded 12-week trial. Setting: Community study in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2005 and 2006. Participants: Patients were recruited through newspaper advertisements. Of the 181 persons screened, 36 (20 women and … read more
GLC2000 for Crossfit and Weightlifting
GLC2000 – A 101 for Crossfit Athletes & Weightlifters There has been a lot of buzz about GLC2000 since TRAIN Manchester head coach, Crossfit Games athlete and top 20 British Weightlifter Sam Briggs started using it to speed her recovery from a fractured patella. She’s now stronger than ever. [read story here] GLC2000 has also sorted a shoulder problem that had plagued Crossfit Master Jane Holgate (Reebok Crossfit 3D) for years in just a few short weeks, as well as … read more
Sam Briggs
Coming Back Stronger, Thanks to GLC2000 Back in 2012 fractured my right patella. After being given the all clear to start training again I have tried various supplements in an attempt to get back to full training. However I was still struggling with my knee aching after most sessions, and my injured knee was not recovering anyway near as well as it should have been. This was really affecting my progress. I started a trial of GLC2000 at the beginning … read more
Gary Stevens
‘GLC2000 has given me my life back’ Hall of Fame Jockey, Star of Seabiscuit the Movie: Winner of 3 Kentucky Derbies, 3 Belmont, 2 Preakness, Japan Cup, Dubai World Cup, Eclipse Award, 9 Breeders Cup Victories and the Youngest Jockey to Acquire $100,000,000.00 in Earnings. In December of 1999 I was forced to retire from racing. My doctors told me I had run out of options; there was irreparable damage in my knee from joint pain. The bone on bone … read more
Advantages of GLC2000 – Brad Chase
Original Article by Brad Chase @ ProgressiveHealth.com GLC2000 uses high strength and multiple forms of glucosamine. Find out what advantages this patented combination of the 4 forms of glucosamine give GLC2000: What is GLC2000? GLC2000 is an all-natural oral formulation for treating arthritis symptoms and maintaining joint health. It is sold by GLC2000.co.uk and available as a capsule in the UK. The formulation of GLC2000 is patented. The product is built around two active ingredients: glucosamine and chondroitin. GLC2000 contains … read more
Sam Briggs – Training After A Serious Knee Injury
[column-half-1][/column-half-1] [column-half-2]After fracturing my patella at the beginning of the year I’m finally back training 100% and hitting pb’s once again! Do I still feel pain? Now only when I run out of GLC2000! One of the bonuses of being a Games athlete is people like to give you things to try for free. I was lucky enough to be given a trial of GLC2000. At the time I was taking anything and everything that promised to help my joints … read more
Common Crossfit Injuries: Shoulder Impingement Part 1
What is shoulder impingement? Why do shoulder impingements occur? How to strengthen shoulder external rotators. Understanding the common causes of shoulder injuries is the first step in building an effective strategy to get you back to full shoulder health. We look at the common causes of shoulder impingements, and what coaches, athletes and therapists can change to speed up the recovery process. If you would prefer to just look at shoulder strengthening exercises, including rotator cuff exercises and shoulder stability … read more
Advantages of GLC2000
Original Article by Brad Chase @ ProgressiveHealth.com For full article please click here What is GLC2000? GLC2000 is an all-natural oral formulation for treating arthritis symptoms and maintaining joint health. Its formulation is patented and built around two active ingredients: glucosamine and chondroitin. These two active ingredients are not simply combined in GLC2000; they are combined in specific ratios and by a patented delivery mechanism that ensures that GLC2000 produces an absorption and bio-availability profile superior to other joint support … read more
Crossfit Elbow Pain – Tendonitis or Tendonosis
Tendonitis 101 From Crossfit Oakland Tendonitis and Overuse Injuries 1. The term tendonitis is largely a misnomer – you probably don’t have swelling at the tendon (the definition of tendonitis). Instead, it’s likely tendonosis, a term which simply means pain at the tendon, and is therefore vague enough to be essentially meaningless, diagnostically. 2. Tendonosis, in CrossFitters, is almost universally caused by overuse (repetitive stress over a period of time) as opposed to by acute tendon trauma during a specific … read more
Nila Venturini
‘GLC2000 has definitely helped my joints’ I started taking GLC2000 in February 2012. I would say that it has definitely helped my joints. I started taking this because I was pushing my joints to the ultimate limit with training for a fitness competition. I still have little irritations with my knee, but that’s far from what I was experiencing in the beginning. I will continue to take this throughout my training. No other joint supplement has had such positive results … read more
Crossfit Shoulder Pain Case Study
Analysis and Recommendations for Crossfit Shoulder Pain Article by Brian Schiff So, I treat a number of fitness enthusiasts in the clinic and many include Crossfit clients. Recently, I evaluated a 38 y/o male on 2/16/12 with a 3 month history of right shoulder pain. He performs Crossfit workouts 6 days per week. His initial intake revealed: Constant shoulder pain that worsens with overhead movements Pain with bar hangs, overhead squats and wide grip snatches Unable to do kipping (only … read more
Reasons to buy
Joint Formula Comparison Chart Click the Joint Formula Comparison Chart to Enlarge *Every effort has been made to check the accuracy of the information on this page. Please contact info@glc2000.co.uk with any questions/queries Are there benefits to different types of Glucosamine? Yes, your body can absorb 4 different types of Glucosamine. If you are using a supplement that contains less than all 4 bioavailable types then you targeting fewer receptors and you are not getting an optimal repair response. Various … read more
Jane Holgate
‘My shoulder is pain free’ Diary of A CrossFit Master – Part 2 Well the good news is that on Friday I managed to complete Randy (75 x 25kg power snatch) in six minutes and thirty seconds, which was a respectable time for me and although I could feel the usual ache in my shoulders and delts over the weekend, my “issue” shoulder had held up well and felt fine for training again on Monday. (My head – not so … read more
Uri
Pain relief after my knee surgery Outstanding! Had surgery for both my knees (torn articular ligaments ACL and meniscus) sometimes I had aches in my knees here and there once I started taking GLC2000 the soreness has completely stopped. It took about 6 weeks to start feeling the difference. But now I wouldn’t use any other product. Disclaimer All customer stories on GLC2000 UK Ltd are their own words. No payment or incentive is provided for any story around GLC2000. … read more