
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

McKenzie Therapy for Mechanical Low Back Pain
Written by Thomas E. Dreisinger, PhD From Spine-Health.com Of the many frustrations back pain patients face, the lack of a standardized or uniform treatment approach is high on the list. Especially for those patients with longer-lasting symptoms of sub-acute pain (lasting between six and twelve weeks) or longer than twelve weeks (chronic back pain), treatment approaches are very inconsistent. While the McKenzie Method is successful with treating acute low back pain, it is also very helpful for those patients with … read more

Tweaks and Geeks of the Lower Back
Article written by Dave Lipson From AGAIN FASTER One of the most common injuries that tend to shut people down are those of the lower back. Funny enough, these injuries are just as common in people who don’t really train at all. There are a lot of herniated and ruptured L-4, L-5, or S-1 discs that correspond with the vertebra of the lumbar and sacral spine. A telltale sign of this type of injury is pain down the nerves into … read more

GLC2000 for joint pain and injury recovery
GLC2000 for joint pain and injury recovery GLC2000 is the only 100% pure, full spectrum joint formula. It has been scientifically engineered to help stimulate your bodies natural repair cycles. No other product has the exclusive GLC blend of all four bioavailable glucosamine forms and chondroitin, clinically proven to increase delivery to the bloodstream and sustains release. Glucosamine is highly anabolic in the correct dose. GLC2000 provides a tailored dose for you. GLC2000 outperforms other joint formulas by providing higher … read more

Common Crossfit Injuries: Lower Back Pain
As a CrossFitter myself I can testify to the high incidence rate of lower back pain and as a physiotherapist it is definitely within the top 3 most common injuries I see. The majority of CrossFitters will be able to recount at least one episode of having their lower back in bits and this is true of the general population as well. To prove this isn’t just anecdotal, evidence shows that between 50–80% of adults will suffer from LBP (lower … read more

9 Ways to Avoid Knee Pain and Injuries
Original article from EverydayHealth.com Learn what exercises and actions to avoid to prevent knee injuries. By Lynn YoffeeMedically reviewed by Pat F. Bass III, MD, MPH Knee pain is often caused by either a one-time acute injury or repetitive motions that stress the knee over time, particularly as we age. There are some steps you can take to avoid knee pain and injuries. “One of the most common things that causes knee injuries is the runner’s stretch,” says Robert Gotlin, … read more

Are you killing your knees?
Little bad habits could be quietly destroying this important joint by RealAge When was the last time you skinned your knee? It’s probably been a while since you experienced this commonplace ailment of rough and tumble youthful times. But even if your grown-up ways have made frequent knee scrapes a thing of the past, your habits in adulthood could still be damaging your knees. The only difference now is that the damage may be a little harder to see. We … read more












