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 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 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 | 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 | 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...
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 14, 2012 | Blogs, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance
Efficient, effective, and well programmed exercise modifies variables to ensure mastery across as many different eventualities as possible. We modify weights, time, size, temperature, reps and anything else we can. Yet, somewhat confusingly, we often train at the same...
by Dan Williams | Mar 14, 2012 | Blogs, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming, Uncategorised
Gone are the days of long duration, slow pace running. Long slow runs have become repeated short fast runs. Conditioning has become strength and conditioning. Repetition has become innovation. Boredom has become variation. Sub par performance has become over...
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 | Nov 29, 2011 | Blogs, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance
Lab based Exercise Scientists and Physiologists have long used VO2 as the gold measure of ‘fitness’. Should we alter this standard to measure the ABILITY to complete physical tasks. VO2 measures the POTENTIAL to complete physical tasks. VO2 compares the...
