by Dan Williams | Jul 31, 2021 | Chronic Conditions, COVID-19, CrossFit, Exercise, For Fitness Professionals, Health, Improving Athletic Performance
You might think that there are some hidden physical benefits to exercising in a mask. Anything that uncomfortable must be good for you right!? We’ve all experienced the anxiety-inducing claustrophobia that comes from not quite being able to fill your lungs with the...
by Dan Williams | May 6, 2020 | Blogs, COVID-19, CrossFit, Exercise, For Fitness Professionals, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
One of the big fitness challenges of the COVID-19 enforced lockdown is the absence of bars. There’s little argument that if you want to get strong, there’s no better tool than the barbell. And no where is this more apparent than for people who choose Olympic Lifting...
by Dan Williams | Apr 26, 2020 | Blogs, COVID-19, Psychology
So you’ve settled into the ‘new world’ (at least for now). You’re beginning to build some new routines and COVID-19 isolation is starting to feel like the ‘new normal’. And you’ve managed to scrape together a few select pieces of exercise equipment. Of course there...
by Dan Williams | Apr 24, 2020 | COVID-19, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
Getting bored with long runs or repetitive interval training? We’ve got two running sessions you really should try. The beauty of these two sessions is that they’re not just a random assortment of running intervals. They’ve been constructed to give...
by Dan Williams | Apr 22, 2020 | Blogs, COVID-19, Programming
Back in the ‘olden days’ (aka 2019), you probably had an exercise program you were following. This program was designed to help you reach your goals. Whether your goals were to improve your general health, build muscle, get better at your sport, keep your bodyweight...
by Dan Williams | Apr 20, 2020 | Blogs, COVID-19, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
Want to use COVID-19 to improve your skills? Want to get your first pull-up? Master double unders? Hold a handstand? Or maybe something more advanced like an iron cross? As we all march towards the ‘acceptance’ phase of the COVID-19 grief cycle,...
by Dan Williams | Apr 18, 2020 | COVID-19, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance
The best exercise to build a bigger deadlift… is the deadlift. The Law of Specificity tells us so. But that doesn’t mean it’s the only way to build a bigger deadlift. And there’s a small group of exercises that have a huge amount of science...
by Dan Williams | Apr 16, 2020 | Blogs, COVID-19, Health, Nutrition, Psychology, Weight Loss
You’ve probably heard of a 12 week nutrition challenge. Perhaps you’ve even done one. And it probably went really well. Maybe you weighed and measured what you ate. You dropped a bit of weight and had more energy. And you built some really good nutrition habits… or...
by Dan Williams | Apr 14, 2020 | Blogs, COVID-19, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
There’s no denying that the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the way the world exercises. We’ve been dealt a whole hand of challenges. And while each of these can be overcome, we have to be smart about how we adapt. Perhaps the biggest change has been to the...
by Dan Williams | Apr 12, 2020 | Blogs, COVID-19, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
At the time of writing, and with the world in the grips of COVID-19 social distancing, social media is littered with posts of long, gruelling workouts going down in garages and home gyms around the world. We think this is amazing! To see people sharing their efforts...
