by Dan Williams | Feb 15, 2019 | Blogs, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Weight Loss
Weight loss is really complicated. Or at least that’s what people think. But it doesn’t need to be. Firstly, a disclaimer. Weight loss is more about nutrition than exercise. But of course exercise is still important. So what can we do in the gym to make...
by Dan Williams | Nov 15, 2018 | Blogs, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, For Fitness Professionals
Too many Fitness Professionals are slaves. Slaves to their clients – their expectations and demands. Stop being a slave. Start being a mechanic. The age-old adage is ‘the customer is always right’. But does this apply to Personal Trainers, or does it...
by Dan Williams | Nov 2, 2018 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Flexibility, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Nutrition, Programming, Psychology, Weight Loss
The Range of Motion Model of Health sets down the principles for everything we do at Range of Motion. The model resembles a ‘wagon wheel’ with individual spokes. Each spoke is required to keep the wheel circular. Should one spoke fail (even thought the...
by Dan Williams | May 11, 2018 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
With CrossFit now no longer in its’ infancy, we’ve learnt a lot about have taught us a lot about ‘known event’ preparation. Here, we break down the step-by-step approach to this vital phase of training and practice. For the majority of the...
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 | Feb 16, 2018 | Blogs, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Nutrition, Psychology
Behaviour change is complicated. It starts with the motivation to want to make a change, and the values that support that end result. Then come goals, outcome goals to define your destination, and process goals to define the steps to get there. With a plan in place...
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 | 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...
by Dan Williams | Aug 15, 2017 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
In this short article, we discuss how to best recover for repeated bouts of exercise. There’s some science content, and if that doesn’t interest you (and you only want to know the practical implications), you can skip straight to the highlighted text. To...