by Dan Williams | Jan 19, 2016 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Flexibility, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
The importance of ankle mobility is paramount in the squat – in fact, any closed chain movement where the foot is in contact with the ground. Dorsi-flexion of the ankle (ie: lifting the ball of the foot with the heel in contact with the ground) is perhaps the...
by Dan Williams | Jan 19, 2016 | Blogs, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
One of my university lecturers took the controversial view that every person who injures themselves should have a cross carved into their arm by a scalpel. The idea being, when the cross has healed, so has the underlying injury. The problem is, if an injury is soft...
by Dan Williams | Jan 19, 2016 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Programming
Competitiive CrossFitters (or at least those who prioritise and commit to training) love to work hard. In the most part, this hard work has a perfect positive correlation with rate of return (increased work capacity across broad time and modal domains). There becomes...
by Dan Williams | Jan 19, 2016 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Nutrition
Daily Training, Movement Preparation, Nutrition and Mental Preparation Guidelines: 6-7 days from competition. 4-5 days from competition. 2-3 days from competition. 1 day from competition + competition day....
by Dan Williams | Jan 19, 2016 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
In my opinion, there is no way to be a good CrossFitter without consistent and long term weakness biasing. ‘CrossFitness’ is largely dependant on two things; the magnitude of fitness and the balance of its components. Balance without magnitude delivers a...
