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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We find ourselves obligated not just to explain CrossFit’s potency but to warn of its potential lethality.
Three exercises based on the overhead squat and commonly used by weightlifters to develop the snatch.
I first published our simple, distinctive workouts on the Internet in hopes of someday communicating with intelligent life in the fitness world.
The Royal Canadian Infantry School, CFB Gagetown, tested the validity of the CrossFit concept against the extant Canadian Army fitness program.
My clients are my top priority and their successes are my life’s work—I am a professional.
Training with the attention and commitment that we bring to our practice, though fun and immensely rewarding, is also draining, and five appointments per day is about all we could handle without an unacceptable drop in energy, focus, and consequently, professional standards.
Physics, physiology, law, culture, sport, history, and engineering all come to play for the tribe of cyclists.
This discussion among Coach, “René,” “BOA,” and Michael Boyle, goes to the heart of the debate over safety, efficacy, and efficiency in fitness programming.
The aims, prescription, methodology, implementation and adaptations of CrossFit are collectively and individually unique, defining of CrossFit, and instrumental in our program’s successes in diverse applications.
Coach Glassman unifies fitness and health with this revolutionary new component, a 3D model.
What we’ve made, what you’ll see all around you this weekend, is a better beautiful.
Fitness can prevent chronic disease—the cause of 70 percent of deaths in the United States.
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