by Dan Williams | Mar 8, 2019 | Blogs, Exercise, For Fitness Professionals, Health, Psychology, Weight Loss
General Population (aka 1 in 3 Australians): “I don’t have time to exercise”. Fitness Professional: “You do have time, it’s just that you’re not prioritising exercise”. Standard conversation. Heard it a million times. And...
by Dan Williams | Mar 1, 2019 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
Superheros are already pretty… super. But just like the rest of us they have strengths and weaknesses. We bet Spider-man can do muscle-ups all day, but he’d struggle beating The Hulk in an arm wrestle! So we thought it’d be fun to put together a...
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 | Feb 8, 2019 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Nutrition, Programming, Psychology, Weight Loss
Stress is stress. Sure it takes different forms, but they all go in to the same ‘stress bucket’ – and once that bucket’s full, it starts to overflow. Let’s talk about what this means. When you’ve got a tight work deadline…...
by Dan Williams | Jan 25, 2019 | Blogs, Exercise, Health, Psychology, Weight Loss
At some stage it became unacceptable to admit out loud that one of your big motives for exercising was to look better. It became something people would fixate and obsess over in their own minds, but would feel embarrassed to voice. Instead, it became...
by Dan Williams | Dec 7, 2018 | Blogs, Exercise, Psychology, Weight Loss
Before our wedding my (then) fiancee (now wife!) and I took dancing lessons. Not unusual for a newly engaged couple looking to wow their friends and family on the wedding night. But the problem was, Ash used to be a competitive ballroom dancer. Needless to say, my...
by Dan Williams | Nov 23, 2018 | Blogs, Exercise, Health, Psychology, Weight Loss
Starting exercise can be really hard. Let’s face it, starting ANYTHING can be really hard. It’s like pushing a car, the first metre takes a superhuman effort, but then once it’s rolling, the inertia makes it easy to keep going. Exercise is the same....
by Dan Williams | Nov 15, 2018 | Blogs, Exercise, Health, Older Persons, Psychology, Weight Loss
Are you over age 25? Your best years may behind you! Scary fact, but it doesn’t have to be true. After the age of 25, the metabolic rate of the average person drops by two to four percent every decade. But what does this mean? Well, your metabolic rate is the...
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...
