by Dan Williams | Aug 17, 2012 | Blogs, Health, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Psychology
In a contemporary society where sport plays such a vital role in the human psyche, and athletes are often paid in relation to performance, athletic injury is a major factor not only in sport itself, but in the human society radiating from it. Human nature revolves...
by Dan Williams | Aug 15, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance
The type of learning used for varying situations is reliant on the nature of that skill and the desired outcomes of the learning process. This learning type may vary depending on the skill or situation to be taught and includes both implicit and explicit learning...
by Dan Williams | Aug 14, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
From a psychological perspective, everything we do is based on our own intrinsic factors, but to an equal extent, on environmental and group factors. It is these interactions and group variables which bring psychological factors to the fore. Thus, to effectively study...
by Dan Williams | Aug 13, 2012 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
Dawn Gregson shares her experiences with overtraining and comes to some valuable conclusions. Learn from her experience. Over the past six months my training regime has been pretty heavy. I have trained five to six times a week with multiple workouts and practice...
by Dan Williams | Aug 10, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
Neoprene knee sleeves are used extensively in Olympic and Powerlifting. We explore one of the possible benefits – proprioception. Proprioception is the information we receive from our muscles informing us of joint position. Lephart (1997) suggests the mechanism...
