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 Garage Gym

Greg Glassman 01 Sep, 2002

Greg Glassman’s 2002 article, describing the space and equipment needed to build out an ideal training space.

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The Muscle Up

Greg Glassman 01 Nov, 2002

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.

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Glycemic Index

Greg Glassman 01 Nov, 2002

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

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Squat Clinic

Greg Glassman 01 Dec, 2002

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

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Seniors and Kids

Greg Glassman 01 Feb, 2003

The needs of the elderly and professional athletes vary by degree, not kind. Where one needs functional competency to maintain independence, the other needs

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Functionality and Wall Ball

Greg Glassman 01 Aug, 2003

We see the bulk of human action as being composed of a limited number of irreducible fundamental movements. These fundamental movements we call functional.

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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