by Dan Williams | Jul 3, 2020 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Exercise, Health, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Older Persons, Programming, Weight Loss
What Your Fitness Today, Can Tell You About Your Health in Old Age There comes a time in most people’s lives (usually around their mid 30s), when their motivations for living a healthy lifestyle change. It’s a time when the pursuit of physical and mental health...
by Dan Williams | Jun 19, 2020 | Blogs, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Programming, Weight Loss
How difficult exercise is, is NOT a measure of its benefit There seems to be a general belief that the HARDER an exercise session is, the more BENEFIT it will give you. That without ending up in a crumpled, sweaty puddle on the floor, the session will be a waste of...
by Dan Williams | May 6, 2020 | Blogs, COVID-19, CrossFit, Exercise, For Fitness Professionals, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
How to Improve Your Olympic Lifting Without a Barbell One of the big fitness challenges of the COVID-19 enforced lockdown is the absence of bars. There’s little argument that if you want to get strong, there’s no better tool than the barbell. And no where is this more...
by Dan Williams | May 3, 2020 | Blogs, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
The Complete Guide to Training Power for Health and Performance Specific training to improve power has far-reaching benefits for a broad spectrum of sub-populations. But first, let’s define the term. In physics terms, power = force x distance / time. We can simplify...
by Dan Williams | Apr 24, 2020 | COVID-19, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
Two Running Sessions You Have to Try Getting bored with long runs or repetitive interval training? We’ve got two running sessions you really should try. The beauty of these two sessions is that they’re not just a random assortment of running intervals....
by Dan Williams | Apr 20, 2020 | Blogs, COVID-19, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
5 Minute At-Home Skill Development Programs Want to use COVID-19 to improve your skills? Want to get your first pull-up? Master double unders? Hold a handstand? Or maybe something more advanced like an iron cross? As we all march towards the ‘acceptance’...
by Dan Williams | Apr 18, 2020 | COVID-19, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance
How to Build a Bigger Deadlift with No Weights The best exercise to build a bigger deadlift… is the deadlift. The Law of Specificity tells us so. But that doesn’t mean it’s the only way to build a bigger deadlift. And there’s a small group of...
by Dan Williams | Apr 14, 2020 | Blogs, COVID-19, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
You’re Probably Doing Too Much Pressing in Your Home Workouts There’s no denying that the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the way the world exercises. We’ve been dealt a whole hand of challenges. And while each of these can be overcome, we have to be...
by Dan Williams | Apr 12, 2020 | Blogs, COVID-19, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
The Negative Effects of Too Many Long, Gruelling Home Workouts At the time of writing, and with the world in the grips of COVID-19 social distancing, social media is littered with posts of long, gruelling workouts going down in garages and home gyms around the world....
by Dan Williams | Apr 7, 2020 | Blogs, COVID-19, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance
The Ultimate Seven Strategy Guide to Getting Strong Without Equipment The are a few key rules that the human body plays by when building strength. Physiology textbooks give these names like ‘progressive overload’, ‘specificity’, ‘diminished returns’, reversibility’,...
