I am very proud to announce that Range of Motion is now a CrossFit Affiliate.
We have been affiliated since September 2011, and choose this time to announce our association to coincide with our website upgrade.
Range of Motion will retain our core structure, with branches in Exercise, Clinic, Corporate and Education. Our Exercise Branch now becomes 'Range of Motion CrossFit'.
We also retain our fundamental position on exercise and health as determined by The Range of Motion Model of Health. This remains the basis by which we prescribe health.
What is CrossFit?
CrossFit is a global exercise philosophy that has now been widely and unequivocally accepted as the most powerful and effective method of improving health and fitness through exercise.
We use CrossFit methodologies and principles and combine these with our own empirical findings to create our distinct brand of prescription. Click here for details on our exercise philosophies.
Range of Motion's Points of Difference:
We are a CrossFit Affiliate that operates with several key differences to most affiliates. We certainly do not see these variations as making us better or worse than our fellow affiliates, just different.
Our primary difference is our focus on individualised exercise prescription and one-on-one consultations, not an open source class or group training model. The use of the term ‘prescription’ is deliberate. The specificity, potency and effect of our application of exercise and nutrition is analogous to that of a drug.
In our experience, individualised training has allowed our clients to maximise their rate of return. We do appreciate however that the group and community dynamic that a class based model offers is powerful. To this end we run a small number of group sessions. These include group classes, swim sessions and gymnastics and Olympic Weightlifting classes.
We use our philosophies and methods as an endpoint for our treatment of individuals with chronic disease and musculoskeletal disorders. We treat everyone as an athlete. This is the endpoint of our continuum of health. We find that if we treat people as athletes, they usually become just that. If we don’t, they are equally likely to meet our expectations. Our clients rise to match our expectations. Our expectations are high.
Exercise is our prescription. We use it to achieve health.
Reasons For Affiliation:
On a personal level, I have been CrossFitting for over four years (as of Jan 2012), all of these as a competing CrossFit athlete. As an Exercise Physiologist, I have been prescribing exercise using CrossFit founded philosophies with clients of Range of Motion for the same time. Looking back over my records, I am approaching 10,000 individual consultations in this time. I have competed on a local and Regional level. Myself personally, and Range of Motion as a business and team of athletes, have long had a presence in the CrossFit Community. Our Affiliation sees the formalisation of this presence.
Those already familiar with The CrossFit Phenomenon will understand the affect that this methodology has on everyone it touches. I am no exception. As much as anything, my affiliation of Range of Motion with CrossFit is a 'tip of the hat' to CrossFit and its effect on me and those close to me.
Where to Now?
This is by no means an endpoint. We're not 'there'. We're not even close. This is just the next step. Range of Motion will continue to expand our four branches and will continue to prescribe exercise as per our Model of Health.
Dan Williams
