A collection of articles by BSI’s co-founder Greg Glassman. They were originally published in The CrossFit Journal. Coach Glassman named his training methodology ‘CrossFit,’ which became a trademarked term owned by CrossFit Inc. In order to preserve his writings in their original form, references to ‘CrossFit’ remain in the below articles:
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The space and equipment needed to build out an ideal training space.
Greg Glassman's 2002 article, offering the world's first meaningful definition of fitness and who is fit.
The muscle-up is astonishingly difficult to perform, unrivaled in building upper-body strength, a critical survival skill, and most amazingly of all, virtually unknown.
The low-fat diet has cost millions unnecessary death and suffering from heart disease, diabetes, and, it increasingly seems, a host of cancers and other chronic and debilitating illnesses.
Our purpose here is to show specifically how a simple goal, like rowing a seven-minute two thousand meters, can not only be systematically and deliberately approached from multiple protocols, but can generally encourage similar thinking in pursuing other fitness milestones.
One of the more common explanations for bad diet is being “too busy to eat right.” On the face of it this may seem plausible.
The squat is essential to your well-being. The squat can both greatly improve your athleticism and keep your hips, back, and knees sound and functioning in your senior years.
Due to a complex blend of physics and physiology, ergometer rowing is a heavyweight’s game!
It would be foolish to ignore these lifts. It would be even more foolish to approach them with other than extreme caution.
The most powerful forces that can be generated by the human body are initiated, controlled, and dominated by the hip. Unfortunately, in the majority of trainees, some degree of hip dysfunction creates postures and mechanics that reduce power and stability and are generally unsound.
PDF Archive
(for now only available in pdf format)
Foundations – 4/1/2002
The Garage Gym – 9/1/2002
What Is Fitness? – 10/1/2002
The Muscle-Up – 11/1/2002
Glycemic Index – 11/1/2002
Strategies for a Seven-Minute 2K on the Concept II Rower – 11/1/2002
Fast Food – 12/1/2002
Squat Clinic – 12/2/2002
Ergometer Scores and Hall of Fame Workouts – 12/2/2002
Interview: Coach Greg Glassman – 1/1/2003
A Postural Error: A Costly Biomechanical Fault: Muted Hip Function (MHF) – 1/1/2003
The Odd Lifts – 1/1/2003
The Overhead Lifts – 1/1/2003
A Theoretical Template for CrossFit’s Programming – 2/1/2003
Hoover Ball – 2/1/2003
Seniors and Kids – 2/1/2003
Police Training – 3/1/2003
The Push-Up – 3/2/2003
How Fit Are You? – 4/1/2003
The Pull-up – 4/1/2003
A Better Warm-up – 4/2/2003
3 Important Ab Exercises – 5/1/2003
A Beginner’s Routine – 5/1/2003
Two Training Aids – 5/1/2003
Interval Generator – 6/1/2003
Metabolic Conditioning – 6/1/2003
Metabolic Conditioning Glossary – 6/1/2003
The Clean – 7/1/2003
Anatomy and Physiology for Jocks – 8/1/2003
Functionality and Wall Balls – 8/1/2003
The Deadlift – 8/1/2003
Benchmark Workouts – 9/1/2003
Really Cool Homemade Parallettes – 9/1/2003
Team Workouts – 10/1/2003
Nutrition: Avoiding Metabolic Derangement – 11/1/2003
Handstands – 1/2/2004
Macroclimbing – 2/2/2004
What Is CrossFit? – 3/1/2004
The Moves – 4/1/2004
CFJ Issue 21: Zone Meal Plans – 5/1/2004
What About Cardio? – 6/1/2004
Ring Strength – 7/1/2004
Why Fitness? – 7/2/2004
Assistance for Bodyweight Exercises – 8/2/2004
Medicine Ball Cleans – 9/1/2004
The Kettlebell Swing – 9/1/2004
A Beginner’s Guide to CrossFit – 10/1/2004
The Girls” for Grandmas! – 10/1/2004
Pull-up Challenge – 11/1/2004
The New Girls – 11/1/2004
CrossFit PT – 12/1/2004
What About Recovery? – 1/1/2005
Gymnastics and Tumbling – 2/1/2005
Fooling Around With Fran – 3/1/2005
The Kipping Pull-Up – 4/1/2005
Working Wounded – 5/1/2005
Garage Gym II – The Revolution – 7/1/2005
Digital Coaching – 8/1/2005
Fundamentals, Virtuosity and Mastery – 8/1/2005
The Overhead Squat – 8/1/2005
The Lifting Shoulder – 9/1/2005
CrossFit Induced Rhabdo – 10/1/2005
The Glute-Ham Developer Sit-Up – 10/1/2005
Skill Transfer Exercises for the Snatch – 11/1/2005
www.crossfit.com – 12/1/2005
Professional Training – 1/1/2006
Scaling Professional Training – 1/1/2006
The Scoop and the Second Pull – 1/1/2006
Validity of CrossFit Tested – 1/1/2006
Single Speeds – 2/1/2006
The Grinder: CrossFit Operations Order #1 “CHAD” – 7/1/2006
The Grinder: CrossFit FRAGO #2: CARLA – 9/1/2006
The Grinder: CrossFit FRAGO #3: VICTORIA – 10/1/2006
The Grinder: CrossFit FRAGO #4: YBF – 11/1/2006
The Grinder: CrossFit FRAGO #5: PATRICIA – 12/1/2006
Evidence-Based Fitness: Rest Day Discussion – 1/1/2007
The Grinder: CrossFit FRAGO #6: GOMEZ – 1/1/2007
The Grinder: CrossFit FRAGO #7: DYER – 2/1/2007
The Grinder: CrossFit FRAGO #8: SHANE – 3/1/2007
The Grinder: CrossFit FRAGO #9: GIROUARD – 4/1/2007
Understanding CrossFit – 4/1/2007
The Grinder: CrossFit FRAGO #10: NOLAN – 5/1/2007
The Grinder: CrossFit FRAGO #11: LEGER – 6/1/2007
The Grinder: CrossFit FRAGO #12: PALMER – 7/1/2007
The Grinder: CrossFit FRAGO #13: SHORTY – 8/1/2007
The CrossFit SAT-Prep Program – 10/1/2012
A Better Beautiful – 12/1/2015
Decade of Dominance – 7/1/2016
Fitness, Luck and Health – 8/1/2016