by Dan Williams | Jun 21, 2013 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance
Anyone who has trained with a prowler would have no doubt of the benefit of this mode of training, on empirical observation alone. Examining the literature however reveals more to the observer than the contents of the victim’s stomach. Prowler pushes are highly...
by Dan Williams | Jun 13, 2013 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
I’ve had a lot of people ask me about my preparation for the 2013 Australian CrossFit Regionals. I thought I’d answer their questions with a blog on the training process I went through to qualify. The aim was always to qualify for Regionals. I never for a...
by Dan Williams | Jun 7, 2013 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
I’ve spent a lot of time considering the most productive and beneficial ways to scale workouts for individual athletes. I talk about the danger of ‘over scaling’ in The Perils of Scaling. At first glance, scaling for an individual would seem the...
by Dan Williams | Jun 6, 2013 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, CrossFit, Exercise, Health, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
As a coach, treading the fine line between athletes experiencing positive and negative responses to exercise is challenging. Exercise is a form of stress – it’s actually termed ‘Eustress’. Eustress is positive stress, stress causing some...
