Range of Motion’s Exercise Improvement Programs have been developed to assist in improving the ability to complete the movements that people most commonly struggle with. They are designed to be cycled through over time, with each...
Did you miss Range of Motion at the 2016 Pacific CrossFit Regionals? Check out the archived videos of all our events here. "Over the course of three days, athletes will perform brutal combinations of workouts to test the range...
An athlete can improve their own performance by improving the performance of others. The pursuit of improvement can often be a selfish one. There's nothing wrong with this selfishness, it's simply what is often required to reach...
You should see every repetition you do as an opportunity for improvement. Every. Single. Rep. The end goal is perfection. But it's a goal that can never be achieved, because absolute perfection of movement is unrealistic. What is realistic is improvement. Movement...
The use of various temperature protocols (cryotherapy, cold water immersion/ice baths, contrast therapy) for increased recovery and performance has garnered mainstream acceptance from athletes. Here, we review the literature to...
My Fitness File is our training program at Range of Motion. My Fitness File examines, tests and measures an athlete's fitness, develops a custom profile, prescribes a completely unique exercise program based on the individual's...
This is part of a five part series on Psychological Skills Training, covering the education, acquisition and practice of psychological skills. Other posts in this series include: Arousal Regulation - Psychological Skills Training Imagery - Psychological Skills...
This blog post marks the first in a series of six posts on enhancing performance through training mental skills. This post will act as an introduction to the key concepts, while subsequent posts will cover arousal regulation,...
This is part of a five part series on Psychological Skills Training, covering the education, acquisition and practice of psychological skills. Other posts in this series include: Imagery - Psychological Skills Training Self...
This is part of a five part series on Psychological Skills Training, covering the education, acquisition and practice of psychological skills. Other posts in this series include: Arousal Regulation - Psychological Skills Training Self Confidence - Psychological Skills...
This is part of a five part series on Psychological Skills Training, covering the education, acquisition and practice of psychological skills. Other posts in this series include: Arousal Regulation - Psychological Skills Training Imagery - Psychological Skills...
This is part of a five part series on Psychological Skills Training, covering the education, acquisition and practice of psychological skills. Other posts in this series include: Arousal Regulation - Psychological Skills Training...
Movement provides a window into the body. Assessing movement is like detective work. Observing movement and assessing faults gives us clues to identify underlying dysfunction. There are few better diagnostic tools than the squat....
The voice in our head has a major impact on our performance. This internal dialogue is called 'self-talk'. Self-talk is one of the techniques we will cover in our upcoming workshop, The Psychological Game: Mental Skills Training (get tickets here). If our self talk is...
Buy tickets. Learn to maximise your performance by maximising your mental skills. Do you get stressed or anxious about training, competing or life in general? Do you suffer from low self-confidence in your abilities? Do you...
Let me preface this article. In CrossFit, for everyone but the 99th percentile, health > performance. This is never, and should never be, in doubt (read: How CrossFit Helps Combat the 19 Major Causes of Premature Death and Disability). So as you're reading this...
Knowing our body composition gives us a valuable window into our health. It tells us what's in there - the ratios of muscle, bone, fat. Knowing these things tells us a lot about our health - the medical conditions we're...
The explosion of performance based fitness has brought with it the popularisation of recovery. Foam rollers and trigger point balls are no longer confined to yoga and pilates studios, or to the consult rooms of physiotherapists....
It's time to stop attacking non CrossFitters. Barely a week goes by when I don't see social media slamming of perceived 'inferior' forms of exercise and their practitioners. All too often this slamming is from CrossFitters -...
The benefit of your training lies not in the result you get, but in the effort it took to get there. Improvement through physiological change isn't driven by how much you lift, but by how difficult it was to make that lift. Not...
Range of Motion is different. Check out a few of the things that set us apart. Do you like our differences? Contact us now for a complimentary 60 minute one-on-one consultation to learn more about what we can do for you. Where's...
‘Mobility’ is in vogue. Both the word, and the practice. All the cool kids are ‘mobilising’. But first let’s define the term, because I fear it has become a blanket term for the pre- and post- exercise routines that all...
As coaches and judges, we're really good at policing the range of movements. We define a movement by its start and end point. Hip crease below the knee, chin over bar, arms locked overhead. These attributes are important, they...
Life is a series of choices, a series of decisions. I've noticed that's it's usually the least favourable decision that leads to the most favourable outcome. Decision A is very easy to make. It requires no great work or...
In order to understand the reasons for the incidents of cardiovascular disease in contemporary society, we must understand the situations and selective pressures during the late Paleolithic era. So influential was this period in...
Since the dawn of human thought, humans have endeavored to explain their world. But to really appreciate the reason and nature of our being, we shouldn’t ask why, but how. If we ask why we will be met with a range of superficial answers. The question of how is met...
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...
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....
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...
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