by Dan Williams | Dec 29, 2010 | Blogs, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Improving Athletic Performance
Research (Gill et. al. 2007) reveals that reported measures of exercise intensity “…show the median level of vigorous-activity is consistently ZERO minutes.” Read that again… zero minutes. That doesn’t even take into account high-intensity activity, which...
by Dan Williams | Dec 29, 2010 | Blogs, Health, Nutrition
It has pretty much been accepted that by eating slowly you end up eating less. Reasons for this are plentiful, including the fact that we base our consumption on time spent eating not amount eaten, and the idea that it gives our bodies more time to digest the food and...
by Dan Williams | Dec 29, 2010 | Blogs, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
Ok, so this might sound like the next Terminator Movie – but the truth is, exercise machines could do a lot more damage than Arnie with a grenade launcher. People know how good exercise is. A lot of people exercise. But few exercise smart. It’s time to...
by Dan Williams | Dec 23, 2010 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Exercise, Health, Weight Loss
We know our health is in crisis when words like globesity are being used to describe the extent of world weight problems. When chronic life-threatening conditions are combining their effects, like the recently coined ‘diabesity’. Not just diabetes. Not just obesity....
by Dan Williams | Dec 21, 2010 | Blogs, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
The body should be trained as it is to be used. If the role of a muscle is to create movement, then completing that movement will in turn train the muscle. The hip extensors should be trained by extending the hip, the elbow flexors by flexing the elbow, the knee...