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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
18.3 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
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
Cathy Wilson
‘Crossfit Games Masters Athlete Overcoming Shoulder Impingement & Elbow Tendinitis’ I first heard of GLC2000 when I competed in the 4 nations Crossfit competition in July 2014. Other Crossfit masters athletes on the team where already using it and it came highly recommended. “GLC2000 meant I was no longer scared of lifting heavy overhead” I’ve had a shoulder impingement for years that I just tried to control with pain relief. It would cause my problem for over head lifts and ... 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
17.2 Mobility, Warmup & Strategy Guide
Improving Shoulder Stability, Grip and Hips – Full body preparation for 17.2 For 18.2 Mobility Guide Click Here A big shout out to GLC2000 athletes Emma Mcquaid & Sam Briggs for placing 2nd and 6th in Europe on 17.1. Hopefully after 17.1 your members lower back and grip muscles have had a bit of a chance to recover. 17.2 brings some exciting new movements to test their grip, work their lower backs and generally push them to their limits. Workout ... read more
Liam Holborn
My physical job and training twice a day always left my joints feeling a bit stiff. It wasn’t that it was stopping me doing anything, there were just always dull aches that I couldn’t seem to shift. Since I started using GLC2000 6 months ago I haven’t any soreness in my joints. My schedule is quite hectic. I train twice a day, once around 5am then again after work, which is a full time physical job. My job involves prolonged ... read more
Mobility Drills For Stable Shoulders & Extra Grip
Improve Your 17.1 Open WOD Time With 5 Minutes Of Mobility Congratulations if you managed to stay up and watch GLC2000 athlete Sam Briggs smash Crossfit Open workout 17.1 in the live announcement overnight. Workout 17.1 consists of two big, full body, hip opening movements. With a lot of work done in awkward unilateral positions whilst testing grip strength. Loosening up your forearms and lower back muscles is extremely important for the dumbbell snatches. Whilst both the burpees and snatches ... 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
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
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
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
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
Phil Hesketh
“GLC2000 – Helping me achieve my potential” After 18 months of Crossfit my body was starting ache. High volume squatting and pressing was leaving me with a nasty pain in both my knees and in my left shoulder, bench pressing was extremely difficult. I had tried several brands of omega 3 and joint support to no avail. GLC2000 was recommended to me by fellow Crossfitter Samantha Briggs so I decided to give it a try. Three months later, after taking ... 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
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