by Dan Williams | Apr 22, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
The four minute mile is a sporting cliche. It acts as the definitive example of the cascade affect of an individual reaching a benchmark. Roger Bannister cracked the four minutes in 1954. The achievement of this benchmark opened the floodgates. It spawned a global...
by Dan Williams | Apr 9, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
If you run with a tight illio-tibial band, you’ll eventually end up with knee pain. If you do 1000 jumping pull-ups after a six month break from training, you’ll get rhabdomyloysis. If you go overhead without sufficient scapula stability, you’ll...
by Dan Williams | Apr 3, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
As CrossFitters, we pride ourselves on the universal scaleability of our game. For the most part – this is an infinitely useful thing. It opens up the movements and programming to the masses. We scale weights, reps, movements and time, and we do so to keep the...
by Dan Williams | Mar 12, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming, Uncategorised
This isn’t intended to be a post describing the physiological definitions of overtraining. It’s not intended to tell you what you should be doing. It’s purpose is to tell you that you HAVE to overtrain to reach your physical ‘potential’....
by Dan Williams | Feb 15, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Health, Nutrition, Psychology, Weight Loss
Peter Scherp shares his tips for weight loss. Read more about Pete’s journey. Having lost over 64 kg, I often get asked what my secret is or what are my best tips for losing weight. There is no real secrets I can reveal, but I can give some tips. In no...
by Dan Williams | Oct 6, 2011 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise
We tend to develop a set of standards by which we define our own identity, in this case, our fitness identity. We pigeon-hole our capabilities based on previous performance, external expectations, and pre-conceived barriers. Nowhere do I see this more apparent than in...
by Dan Williams | Sep 4, 2011 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance
We train hard – real hard. So how can we avoid hand tears that may slow us down? Guest Blogger Andrew Mills explores… As athletes we train hard and consistently. As a consequence of hard training we more often than not end up with little cumbrances along...
by Dan Williams | Aug 5, 2011 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
Human performance is limited by attention and automaticity. Attention is a conscious mental engagement in cognitive or motor task, while automaticity occurs when the same task is performed without requiring attention resources. Theories of attention propose that...
by Dan Williams | Aug 3, 2011 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
In order to formulate a teaching or training program, a coach must first appreciate the stages of learning, and teach students as proposed by these distinct stages. The learner progresses through three phases; cognitive, associative and autonomous. In the cognitive...
by Dan Williams | Aug 1, 2011 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance
The individual differences we observe in the ‘levels of success’ that people achieve in performance of a motor skill depends in large part on the degree to which the person has the motor abilities that are important for the performance of that skill. The...
