by Dan Williams | Aug 7, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
Methods for learning and practicing a new skill differ dependent on the skill type. Whether relatively simple skills like a box jump, or complex skills like Olympic Lifting, we must take a different approach to ensure movement mastery. Organisation and...
by Dan Williams | Aug 3, 2012 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, CrossFit, Health, Psychology
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD is one of the most over diagnosed and misunderstood conditions effecting people in today’s times. Its symptoms include inattentiveness, impulsiveness, hyperactivity and hyper focus just to name a few. Many of these...
by Dan Williams | Jul 31, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Nutrition
Creatine has long been a popular supplement in the bodybuilding community. Ironically, it’s role in strength training has not been as prevalent. Ironically, because one of the primary roles of creatine is in increasing strength. Although bodybuilders are stronger than...
by Dan Williams | Jul 23, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise
“Regularly learn and play new sports” Strongman Qualifier. Steve Bray summarises Range of Motion’s performance and experience at the WA Strongman Second Qualifier: Recently, myself and five other Range Of Motion athletes attacked head on our very first...
by Dan Williams | Jun 28, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
Regardless of athletic experience, or familiarity with movements, CrossFitters all follow a similar pattern of development. If we can understand this continuum, perhaps we can increase the speed at which we move along it. And for a bunch of people as progress hungry...
by Dan Williams | Jun 25, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Weight Loss
Guest author Matthew Webb apologies for the collective barrage that is CrossFit-hysteria. Dear non-CrossFitting friends: please be patient with us. It’s just that we’re really stoked. Disclaimer: this post is going to sound like an advertisement for CrossFit. Sorry...
by Dan Williams | Jun 19, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Programming
A pre- competition taper acts to allow the recovery of central (nervous system) and peripheral (muscular) fatigue. We examine the literature to explore the fine balance between over-tapering (and thus a drop in performance) and under-tapering (leading to over...
by Dan Williams | Jun 12, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Nutrition
I don’t intend to raise any of my own thoughts or opinions in this post, but rather, to review a small sample of a large body of research into post exercise nutrition with the aim of increasing future performance. For those with access to journal articles...
by Dan Williams | May 25, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
In CrossFit, there’s generally a limit to the number of movements we see in competition. This is for good reason. There are certain movements that are just better at measuring/testing fitness than others. Prior to a competition, most semi-experienced athletes...
by Dan Williams | May 12, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Programming
1) ‘Functional Movements’: Movements that haven’t been invented. Movements that we would have seen people doing 10,000 years ago. Running, climbing, throwing, dragging, picking up, swimming, shouldering, digging, swinging etc. The exercise equivalent...
