by Dan Williams | Jun 28, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
Regardless of athletic experience, or familiarity with movements, CrossFitters all follow a similar pattern of development. If we can understand this continuum, perhaps we can increase the speed at which we move along it. And for a bunch of people as progress hungry...
by Dan Williams | Jun 25, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Weight Loss
Guest author Matthew Webb apologies for the collective barrage that is CrossFit-hysteria. Dear non-CrossFitting friends: please be patient with us. It’s just that we’re really stoked. Disclaimer: this post is going to sound like an advertisement for CrossFit. Sorry...
by Dan Williams | Jun 19, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Programming
A pre- competition taper acts to allow the recovery of central (nervous system) and peripheral (muscular) fatigue. We examine the literature to explore the fine balance between over-tapering (and thus a drop in performance) and under-tapering (leading to over...
by Dan Williams | Jun 12, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Nutrition
I don’t intend to raise any of my own thoughts or opinions in this post, but rather, to review a small sample of a large body of research into post exercise nutrition with the aim of increasing future performance. For those with access to journal articles...