by Dan Williams | Apr 22, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
The four minute mile is a sporting cliche. It acts as the definitive example of the cascade affect of an individual reaching a benchmark. Roger Bannister cracked the four minutes in 1954. The achievement of this benchmark opened the floodgates. It spawned a global...
by Dan Williams | Apr 12, 2012 | Blogs, Health, Nutrition
We follow our standard nutritional recommendation: “…we can surmise that a modern diet should comprise of the closest modern equivalent to “animals caught via hunting, and uncultivated plant foods from gathering. There are three macronutrients;...
by Dan Williams | Apr 9, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
If you run with a tight illio-tibial band, you’ll eventually end up with knee pain. If you do 1000 jumping pull-ups after a six month break from training, you’ll get rhabdomyloysis. If you go overhead without sufficient scapula stability, you’ll...
by Dan Williams | Apr 3, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
As CrossFitters, we pride ourselves on the universal scaleability of our game. For the most part – this is an infinitely useful thing. It opens up the movements and programming to the masses. We scale weights, reps, movements and time, and we do so to keep the...
