by Dan Williams | Feb 27, 2013 | Blogs, CrossFit, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
Exercise is an exact science. A training program is objectively scrutinised by the scientific method. We test baseline proficiency across components of fitness. We hypothesise that you will get better at them and construct a program with the aim of making this so. We...
by Dan Williams | Jan 6, 2013 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise
It recently struck me that there is a close parallel between CrossFit athletes and the most successful species on our planet. I’ve always been interested by evolution and biological anthropology and hold the belief that “Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in...
by Dan Williams | Sep 27, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
Head to our Facebook page and like us to see all our posts in your newsfeed. In early 2010 I wrote an article for The CrossFit Journal, ‘Weakness Bias Training’. In this article, I said: You are only as strong as the weakest link in your exercise chain....
by Dan Williams | Sep 26, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
Summary: Range of Motion athletes completed a highly structured ten week training program. The participants averaged a 28.93% increase in variables measured. Here, we examine the improvement statistics from this sample. Overview: Range of Motion athletes completed a...
by Dan Williams | Sep 17, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
Agility is a rarely trained, though highly important component of fitness, especially as pertaining to sporting performance. It is the ability to rapidly modify the body’s posititon. Usually we associate this with cutting, weaving and changes of directions in...
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...
by Dan Williams | Aug 8, 2012 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, CrossFit, Exercise, Health, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
Guest author Nina Jurak explores her experiences with compartment syndrome and discusses effective treatment. What started off as numb toes and shin pain was later diagnosed as compartment syndrome in both my lower legs by a doctor, physiotherapist and podiatrist....
