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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
Open 20.2 – Warmup & Mobility Guide
Strategy, Warmup, Mobility & Workout Prep Everything you need to finish strong in 20.2: 1. Strategy & Equipment: Maintaining a consistent pace is the key bossing a 20 min AMRAP. How you set up your dumbbells and rope is important. If possible set them up around 5 steps from the pullup bar, and the same distance between each other in a triangle. You’re trying to build a mini circuit where the steps between each exercise is the rest to catch ... read more
Open 20.1 – 4 Step Warmup & Mobility Guide
4 step warmup & mobility guide to increase performance & prevent injury Don’t let tight muscles or stiff joints derail your CF Open performance: 1. General Warmup: Spend 10-15 mins raising your core temperature and warming up the muscle groups that are going to be engaged during 20.1. A combination of 250m row, lunges, press-ups, kettlebell swings and burpees would work well but feel free to substitute movements in. Keep the pace steady – the aim here is to raise ... read more
Crossfit Rotator Cuff Rehab
“So I’ve just finished a 2 month trial of the supplement called GLC2000 which aims to improve the health of joints and connective tissues. After opting not to have surgery on my torn rotator cuff, torn labrum and torn cartilage I was looking for ways to reduce the pain and aggravation in my shoulder from training whilst I rehabbed it and built it stronger again. Quite simply, this stuff has done an excellent job. I can’t observe that I’m ‘not ... read more
Masters Online Qualifiers 2018
With the Crossfit Games 2018 Age Group qualifiers almost upon us; here’s a quick look at some of the top UK masters athletes. Each year the masters categories get more competitive, with previous Rx’d Games athletes moving up. Top masters athletes are training harder than ever before, often fitting in two training sessions a day around a full time job and family commitments. These athletes understand that extra responsibilities combined with not recovering as fast as they did ten years ... read more
Open 18.5 Mobility Guide – Improve Thoracic Mobility & Decrease Hip Tightness
Open Workout Déjà vu If you’ve been doing Crossfit as long as we have you probably have mixed feelings about the announcement of Crossfit Open Workout 18.5. “Who votes for thrusters anyway?!?!” On the plus side it gives you a chance to prove you are fitter than you were in 2011 & 2012. But if you have done this workout before there’s a good chance you remember how much this WOD, well sucks… It truly sucks: Complete as many reps as ... read more
Crossfit Regional Athletes Overcoming Long Term Wrist Injuries
The wrist is one of the most frustrating places Crossfit athletes can get injured. Almost all upper body movements involve the wrist, as do the majority of compound movements including the olympic lifts, gymnastics moves and other barbell work. The wrist a small junction where a lot of ligaments, tendons and nerves pass to the hand, so there are a lot of important structures in a small space. A wrist injury often means that an athlete’s progress in the gym ... read more
18.4 Mobility and Activation Guide
Heavy Deadlift Edition There is no shying away from the fact that 18.4 is a lot of deadlifts. These will tax you midline and then going upside down for HSPU and handstand walks is going to cause you to move from lower back flexion to extension in a fatigued state. If you don’t warmup effectively there is a good chance your lower back will be sore or worse after this workout. We’ve put together a 6 minute video with 6 ... read more
18.3 Mobility Guide
Focussing on improving overhead positioning and kipping efficiency 18.3 is a lot of double unders followed by some quite technical movements. Overhead squats, dumbbell snatches and muscle ups are tricky enough when you’ve not just done 100’s of double unders. Mobilising your upper back and shoulders before this workout will help you to stabilise the weight over head, and releasing your lats will help you kip effectively for the muscle ups. 2 rounds for time of: 100 double-unders 20 overhead ... read more
Open 18.2 Mobility & Warmup Guide
Tips to get your glutes & posterior chain firing, and improve your front rack. Workout 18.2 is another chance for those the dumbbells to have an outing, this time in a couplet with the new burpee standard. 18.2 is an ascending couplet of 1-10 DB squats and bar facing burpees. Followed immediately by 18.2a, which is a max clean attempt. Both of these workouts need to be completed within the same 12 minute time cap. Workout 18.2 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10 reps for ... read more
Open 18.1 Mobility Tips
Helping You Improve Your Kipping Efficiency and Overhead Position Congratulations if you managed to stay up and watch GLC2000 athlete Sam Briggs smash Crossfit Open workout 18.1 in the live announcement overnight in São Paulo, Brazil. Don’t worry if you haven’t watch it yet, there are no spoilers here. Workout 18.1 is a triplet consisting of toes to bar, dumbbell hang clean and jerks and rowing for calories. The biggest gains from a mobility perspective are to help improve kipping ... read more
Crossfit Open 2018 Masters Athletes To Watch
The Crossfit Games Season 2018 is almost upon us, and it’s looking to be the biggest Open yet. Last year’s competition boasted 380,000 entries, an amazing 41% of entries were masters athletes. That meant more than 148,000 masters signed up and half of these fell into the 35-39 category. This growing popularity has been recognised by Crossfit HQ and the 2018 masters categories have all had their prize purses increased. The most noticeable increase is in the 35-39 category, now ... read more
Lee Howe – Labrum Tear Recovery
Recovering from Shoulder surgery 2x as fast with GLC2000 Over the years the left side of my upper body has been battered through competing in Crossfit. Back in 2010 I lost a heavy kettlebell snatch behind me and refused to drop the ‘bell. This caused me to dislocate my left shoulder. My shoulder got popped back in and I rested it. Gradually it improved, and I began training again. I wasn’t aware that I had torn my labrum as my ... read more
Mobility & Movement Seminar
Principles For Coaches To Assess And Improve Mobility & Movement Presented by Mobilise Activate Perform & GLC2000 Most people understand that they should be doing something to look after their joints, loosen up and increase their flexibility. There is a wealth of information available, but having access to a library of drills or stretches is close to worthless if we are treating a symptom rather than the causes of an issue. This seminar will provide coaches and athletes with an ... read more
Crossfit Games 2017 UK Athletes To Watch // GLC2000
The 2017 Crossfit Games is now less than one week away, so here is our rundown of UK athletes who are heading to Madison to test their fitness. Samantha Briggs The 2013 Crossfit Games champion needs no introduction. Sam is a Games veteran, who at the age of 35 managed to qualify to compete in the Rxd division and the Masters 35-39 category. In a recent Q&A interview with GLC2000 (click here if you missed it), Sam admitted she seriously ... read more
Shoulder Rehab Q&A // Samantha Briggs
At the highest level of sport, injuries do happen. Crossfit athletes are constantly pushing the envelope of fitness, moving heavier weights, faster, and for more reps. This ever increasing volume constantly puts strain on joints and connective tissues, which are much slower to adapt and repair than muscle. Most of the time injuries can be overcome by resting appropriately, eating well and with the use of smart supplementation. However, surgery is required in some severe cases, and we were lucky ... read more
Crossfit Meridian Regionals Athletes To Watch // GLC2000
Supporting Regionals Athletes Back in January GLC2000 ran a small training camp ahead of the Crossfit Open. Life as a top athlete can be quite solitary, following specialist programming in a quiet or deserted gym 6-7 days a week. So we got some top athletes together in Manchester, the spiritual home of UK Crossfit. It gave them a chance to train, compete, laugh and joke together in preparation for the 2017 Crossfit Open – all whilst we filmed the entire ... read more
17.5 Mobility Guide
Mobility to Reduce Your Fatigue During High Rep Double Unders & Thrusters Open workout 17.5 brings together a couplet of 2 classic Crossfit movements. It’s no surprise to see either of these movements, but the rep scheme is a little unusual. Neither the 9 thrusters nor the 35 double unders are particularly taxing on their own – but over the course of 10 rounds fatigue will set in and start to highlight any limitations in your mobility. Better Movement From ... read more
17.4 Mobility Guide
Are You Fitter Than Last Year? Testing your fitness is what the Crossfit Open is all about. There’s no better way to do that than to repeat a highly metabolic chipper from 12 months ago! 17.4 combines 4 complimentary movements in a high reps, so your muscles are ready to transition to the next exercise but your lungs may not be. How To Mobilise To Beat Your 16.4 Score The variety of movements in this workout means there’s hardly a muscle in ... read more
17.3 Mobility & Strategy Guide
Helping You Fail Fewer Snatches The Open WOD 17.2 saw some absolutely amazing performances, with many people getting their first T2B or even BMU. Congratulations to GLC2000 athletes Samantha Briggs & Emma Mcquaid who after 2 open workouts are sitting in 1st and 8th place in the world! Bye Bye Dumbells – Hello Chest to Bar & Barbell Workout 17.3 is going to be challenge for a lot of people because of the large weight jumps in the snatch. So ... read more
Scott Chan
Fixing My Elbow and Shoulder Issues I’ve had long standing elbow and shoulder injuries for years, these have affected my work and training. These niggles were brought on by my job, which involves a lot of repetitive gripping and hammering. I used to see a chiropractor once a week just to keep it in check, totalling £160 a month. GLC2000 costs me less than £25 per month for better results Since the summer, I’ve been able to get more consistent ... read more