Weightlifting
Alex Clarke – Stubborn Wrist Injury
In the Summer of 2014 I injured my wrist catching a heavy clean. It slipped off my shoulder and bent my wrist at a very awkward angle. As a full time coach this did more than affect my training, it meant I struggled to demo even the most basic of movements. Push ups hurt, overhead squats were painful, and presses even with an empty barbell were out of the question. “I was really impressed in how quickly my range of ... 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
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
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
Sonny Webster
94KG U23 British Snatch & Total Record Holder When I am training I always struggle with knees, especially when volume ramps up ahead of a competition. I heard lots of really positive things about GLC2000, so wanted to try them in the lead up to the IWF Houston Worlds. My preparation for the Worlds went great, and all my joints felt really good considering the training volume I was doing, especially my knees. Overall I was pretty happy with my ... read more
Ben Stroud
Dealing with multiple knee surgeries ‘After two weeks I couldn’t believe the difference in all my joints’ My first major injury was a patella tendon rupture 4 years ago under a 125kg split jerk. I’d always suffered from bad knees since playing years of basketball. I literally ripped my kneecap off. My rehab was very painful and slow as you could imagine and it never really fully healed. It took me about 2 years to get my first pistol squat ... read more
Angelo Flammia
‘The Difference to my Elbow Tendinitis is Amazing’ Just under a year ago I decided to concentrate on improving my Gymnastics. Being a heavier Athlete this was something that had always been a weakness of mine and in a short period of time I went from doing very basic gymnastics movements as they came up in workouts to high volume strict Gymnastics including legless rope climbs, weighted pull ups, lots of Strict Holds and Ring work on a daily Basis. ... read more
Katie Calvert
GLC2000 gives me the confidence to train heavy again At the age of 16 I was training hard to become an Olympic cyclist on the british cycling Olympic Development Programme. The year before I gained my place on the programme I ruptured my PCL (knee ligament) during a training exercise at the velodrome, this meant being in a brace for 4 months as well as extensive therapy to get my quads strong enough to return to competitive cycling. I fought ... read more
Mary Hulgraine
My Shoulder is no longer a worry I dislocated a shoulder playing basketball in college in USA. I had surgery to sort it, and everything seemed fine. I had no pain until I started lifting again months later. Lifting again caused me constant aches and pains, and so I thought my career would be short lived. Willing to try anything I got some GLC2000 when it first came on the scene off a friend and have taken it religiously since ... 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
Michaela Breeze
Michaela Breeze – Road to Glasgow 2014 At 35 years of age and having just broken my own British record in the Snatch from 2002, to say I’m happy with how my build up to the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth games would be an understatement. Glasgow is now only 10 weeks away, and I wanted to say how much GLC2000 is helping me keep my body together. I retired from Weightlifting in 2010 after struggling for the best part of 2 ... read more
Darren Hotten
Darren Hotten – Dealing with knee inflammation I first started using GLC2000 after injuring my knee during an Olympic lifting session; I was having trouble with inflammation and pain within the joint. Any squatting or lower body movement went on hold until my knee was better, after a couple of weeks I was able to train lower body but every training session inflamed and irritated the knee joint. I was recommended GLC2000 after attending a lifting competition at Reading CrossFit, ... read more