The Glassman Chipper from the CrossFit Journal. CrossFit has seemed to evolve over the last 5 or 6 years in many aspects – as a lifestyle, and a business, a training program, and a sport. But if you look at these articles, you realize this was all a part of Greg Glassman’s vision. If you don’t know, Glassman created CrossFit. He is the son of a rocket scientist in Southern California. Glassman was a gymnast that used weight training to prepare for his competitive season because he didn’t have access to equipment. Later, he became a personal trainer in Los Angeles and was kicked out of all the gyms in LA because of his unorthodox training methods and strong following. He relocated to Santa Cruz where he ran into similar problems until he opened his own warehouse gym, which he called CrossFit. From there, he began training everyone from Olympic...
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