by Dan Williams | Mar 30, 2018 | Blogs, CrossFit, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
For competitive functional fitness athletes, competition is a skill. It takes practice. Just like someone playing team sports needs more than training for ‘match fitness’, an athlete competing in the sport of fitness needs more than training. They need to...
by Dan Williams | Mar 22, 2018 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
So you’ve fallen short in your goals. In your mind, you’ve failed. You feel like the sacrifice and commitment and hard work has been a complete waste. You’re frustrated. You’re feeling like shit. You feel like a failure. You know you shouldn’t but that doesn’t change...
by Dan Williams | Mar 1, 2018 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
Social media is a great medium to share your accomplishments and the fruits of your labour. It’s an opportunity for you to share with your peers the things you’re most proud of. But there’s a phenomenon emerging of people excusing their amazing...
by Dan Williams | Feb 2, 2018 | Blogs, CrossFit, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming, Psychology
There’s little argument that being a good CrossFit Athlete is less about the strength of your strengths, and more about the strength of your weaknesses. It’s widely accepted that the lowest hanging fruit of athlete development lies in weakness eradication....
by Dan Williams | Dec 5, 2017 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
Much importance is placed on the success of each individual training session an athlete completes. Although the sum of these individual session is important, sometimes the emphasis placed on this ‘micro view’ of progress can be damaging. Negative reactions...
by Dan Williams | Nov 21, 2017 | Biomechanics, Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Programming
The pull-up is a key exercise in the development of strength and shoulder health. When done correctly. Many of the issues with pull-ups occur as a result of incorrect shoulder mechanics, often resulting from ineffective methods of scaling. We discuss these mechanics...
by Dan Williams | Nov 7, 2017 | Biomechanics, Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Flexibility, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
It’s human nature to find the easiest way to do things. In fact, it’s in our genes – a survival advantage. In the field of exercise and health however, sometimes the easy way isn’t the best way. We have to fight the deconditioning and...
by Dan Williams | Oct 12, 2017 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Flexibility, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Programming
Your taper in the days leading up to a competition is a vital part of your preparation. But a taper doesn’t mean inactivity. Here, we outline the best way to prepare your body for competition. For the full picture, and a day-by-day guide from a week out, read...
by Dan Williams | Sep 26, 2017 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
Bad training days happen. They’re part of the game. The first step in learning to deal with them, is to accept that they WILL happen. Once you have this acceptance, you give yourself permission to have an ‘off-day’, and the associated stress or...
by Dan Williams | Sep 18, 2017 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
CrossFitters face one major problem in trying to develop correct strategy and pacing strategies. They make the mistake of trying to use an energy system that’s too intense for the workout they’re doing. As a result, they reach a threshold and the byproducts of the...
