Exercise/Training
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
Carrie Ogilvie-Brown
My Elbow and Knee Problems were better within one tub My elbows and knees have always ached. As I increased my training to 6 days a week I started to struggle with recovery, and these occasional aches became pretty much constant. I started picking up small injuries and niggles in both my elbows and knees, affecting my enjoyment and progress. Supplements didn’t help I tried a few joint supplement brands which didn’t work for me. I’d heard good things about ... 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
Bobbie Ross – Weightlifting Wrist Injury
I’ve had weak wrists for as long as I can remember. Meaning that I would wear wrist supports almost every session, as I knew they were going to hurt. I also struggled with sore hips after heavy squatting sessions, as an Olympic Weightlifter I am usually squatting four or more times a week. My coach had heard some good things about GLC2000, so recommended that I give it a try. After around 11 weeks of consistent use I found that ... 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
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
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
Nicholas Parpa
Since my early teens I have always wanted to be a boxer. I had my first amateur bout in 2004 at the age of 13, and after 10 years and countless fights as an amateur I obtained my professional boxing license. Understandably I threw myself even more into my training, excited for my first fight. Unfortunately, in the lead up to my professional debut I sustained a severe shoulder injury whilst training. It quickly became apparent that I would not ... read more
Katarina Wiemeyer
Mobility, Recovery & Injury Prevention for Weightlifters Weightlifting is a tough sport, there are so many benefits that come from strength training, however recovery and looking after yourself is very important. A few weeks ago we helped our coach out being demo models and extra pairs of eyes when he was running a beginners Olympic Weightlifting seminar, one of the things he said that stuck with me (other than all of the very interesting technical pointers) was when he asked ... read more
7 Things You Didn’t Know About Top Athletes
Behind the scenes at the GLC2000 UK Athlete Camp 2017 Training Is a 9 – 5 We are lucky enough to work with elite Crossfit athletes regularly. Most have them have been using our product way before they were top athletes. These athletes all treat their training as a full time job; absolutely everything they do in the gym is done with purpose and intensity. They still love every minute of it. Their Warm Up Is Longer Than Your Workout ... 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
Amy Laffan
My name is Amy Laffan I am a personal trainer, European Regional level Crossfitter, and soon to be hitting Irish qualifying total for the Olympics. I wouldn’t have done any of this without GLC2000. It was during the 2013 Crossfit Open that I injured my shoulder. Being stubborn I pushed through, bar muscle ups did me no favours. I rested for a couple of days and continued to push through the open workouts. The range of motion in my shoulder ... read more