by Dan Williams | Jun 21, 2013 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance
Anyone who has trained with a prowler would have no doubt of the benefit of this mode of training, on empirical observation alone. Examining the literature however reveals more to the observer than the contents of the victim’s stomach. Prowler pushes are highly...
by Dan Williams | Jun 13, 2013 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
I’ve had a lot of people ask me about my preparation for the 2013 Australian CrossFit Regionals. I thought I’d answer their questions with a blog on the training process I went through to qualify. The aim was always to qualify for Regionals. I never for a...
by Dan Williams | Jun 7, 2013 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
I’ve spent a lot of time considering the most productive and beneficial ways to scale workouts for individual athletes. I talk about the danger of ‘over scaling’ in The Perils of Scaling. At first glance, scaling for an individual would seem the...
by Dan Williams | Jun 6, 2013 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, CrossFit, Exercise, Health, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
As a coach, treading the fine line between athletes experiencing positive and negative responses to exercise is challenging. Exercise is a form of stress – it’s actually termed ‘Eustress’. Eustress is positive stress, stress causing some...
by Dan Williams | Mar 12, 2013 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Programming
You can find a full resource for exercising with an injury here: Exercising with an Injury. We like our programming to be bulletproof – unstoppable. We like to have a plan. When we program we work backwards. We determine where we want to be at some point in the...
by Dan Williams | Jan 6, 2013 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise
It recently struck me that there is a close parallel between CrossFit athletes and the most successful species on our planet. I’ve always been interested by evolution and biological anthropology and hold the belief that “Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in...
by Dan Williams | Nov 14, 2012 | Blogs, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance
For elite sportspeople looking to find an edge, the training done to prepare the body for the rigours of competition can be as important as sports specific traing itself. Jill Williams explores a sport that you may not instantly link with exercise training –...
by Dan Williams | Oct 11, 2012 | Blogs, Exercise, Kids, Psychology
Reinforcement is arguably the most dominant factor influencing and shaping physical activity levels in children. Positive reinforcement and encouragement from peers and authoritative figures teaches kids that physical activity in both a is not only acceptable, but...
by Dan Williams | Sep 27, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
Head to our Facebook page and like us to see all our posts in your newsfeed. In early 2010 I wrote an article for The CrossFit Journal, ‘Weakness Bias Training’. In this article, I said: You are only as strong as the weakest link in your exercise chain....
by Dan Williams | Sep 17, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
Agility is a rarely trained, though highly important component of fitness, especially as pertaining to sporting performance. It is the ability to rapidly modify the body’s posititon. Usually we associate this with cutting, weaving and changes of directions in...
