Regionals
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
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
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
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
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
Simon Thomson
‘I no longer get a sore elbow after pullups or heavy overhead work’ For the past few months I’d been getting a sore elbow which would cause me to have to stop training for the best part of a week. It seemed like high repetition pull ups, or heavy overhead work like Jerks would set it off. It would start by throbbing from the outside of the elbow and over the next few days spread across my entire elbow joint. ... 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
Eloy Rodriguez
GLC2000 means I’m back competing Before competing in the 2014 Crossfit regionals I injured my shoulder. I decided to compete anyway and this unsurprisingly only made my shoulder worse. After the event I rested my injured shoulder for over a month and it still wasn’t any better. I decided to order some GLC2000, I’m so glad that I did.. After using GLC2000 for 3 weeks I was able to start hanging off a pull up bar pain free. After completing ... read more
Hayley Knowles
“I can’t remember the last time my knees felt this good.” I’ve been using GLC2000 for roughly 5 months, I can honestly say I can’t remember the last time my knees felt this good. When I first started Crossfit I was pretty strong so I was quickly able to add weight to a barbell and lift. My form was good so I didn’t see any reason why I shouldn’t keep increasing the weight. My muscles were fine but my connective ... 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
John Lugg
‘My shoulders’ ROM is so much better’ Fitness has always been part of my life. I played Rugby to a high level (Llanelli RFC aka The Scarlets), county athletics (13x British champ), swimming, cycling. Last year I became European Crossfit Masters champion. Over the last year my shoulder had got increasingly more sore. Some days the range of motion was so poor that trying to get it overhead was unbearable. This was affecting my work, training and hobbies. I spoke ... 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