Category: Olympic Lifting

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Greg Glassman is back

If you don’t know who Greg is, he created the CrossFit methodology a couple of decades ago.

Not everyone is a fan of CrossFit but it can’t be denied that he took the fitness and turned it on its head. Olympic weightlifting had the biggest resurgence in decades due to CrossFit, hell the barbell became normal in gyms again mainly due to CrossFit. I would also argue that it was the biggest factor in women beginning to see that strength training was for them as well not just men. Now Instagram is full of women of every age getting as strong as they can. This especially in menopause is absolutely and I can’t emphasise this enough critical for health.

Not to forget that he factored in a no nonsense approach to lifestyle and nutrition focused on meat, veg no sugar low carbs at a time everything was still low fat etc.

He was ousted from CrossFit in 2020 for various reasons and hadn’t done a great deal publicly since then.

So I’ll definitely be interested to see where he’s going with this new venture



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Olympic weightlifting day 4

Today was a bit ugh, couldn’t get into the flow of it and was hyper aware of what I wasn’t getting right.

I think being a little bit tired and achy didn’t help. But it’s early in my year of this adventure so I’m not stressed.

I was particularly aware again of landing on my toes and a couple of times not getting the bar close enough.

I must admit to being a little relieved when I finished more in my comfort zone with dumbbell rows, bicep curls and sit ups!

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New year revolution

Yes I said revolution because resolutions always seem to be about giving up something. I revolt against that and am commenting to learning something.

In particular it’s olympic lifting. Which will be the main focus of my training for the next year. I will still use dumbbells for joint stability as I’m a bendy stretchy person but more as an accessory and a lil wod here and there to stop my heart exploding.

I have an amazing coach who I will see once a month and he can tell me where I’m going wrong and then I follow the program in between.

Today was day 3 of my year of olympic lifting, at this stage we are keeping it pretty light while I think about technique.

Today I particularly was aware in snatch balance of my tendency to land more on toes than heels which I’m working on. Snatch pull I find particularly useful as I really get the feeling of it being close to my belly.

I closed up the session with some split squats and heavy step ups then a short street parking work out. All in all body was thoroughly tickled

Interestingly my heart rate had a decent boomf from the olympic lifting