by Dan Williams | Feb 29, 2012 | Blogs, Exercise, Kids, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
Breaking a mirror causes seven years bad luck. You’ll find a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Strength training in children causes growth abnormalities. These three statements are all equally supported by research. I’ve got no idea where the strength...
by Dan Williams | Feb 15, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Health, Nutrition, Psychology, Weight Loss
Peter Scherp shares his tips for weight loss. Read more about Pete’s journey. Having lost over 64 kg, I often get asked what my secret is or what are my best tips for losing weight. There is no real secrets I can reveal, but I can give some tips. In no...
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...
by Dan Williams | Oct 6, 2011 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise
We tend to develop a set of standards by which we define our own identity, in this case, our fitness identity. We pigeon-hole our capabilities based on previous performance, external expectations, and pre-conceived barriers. Nowhere do I see this more apparent than in...
by Dan Williams | Sep 4, 2011 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance
We train hard – real hard. So how can we avoid hand tears that may slow us down? Guest Blogger Andrew Mills explores… As athletes we train hard and consistently. As a consequence of hard training we more often than not end up with little cumbrances along...
by Dan Williams | Aug 29, 2011 | Blogs, Exercise, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
The eccentric hamstring lower is a rarely used, though highly effective method of strengthening the posterior chain. Its applications in improving strength, speed and power are extensive. In terms of performance improvement, the benefits of this exercise can be...
by Dan Williams | Aug 5, 2011 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
Human performance is limited by attention and automaticity. Attention is a conscious mental engagement in cognitive or motor task, while automaticity occurs when the same task is performed without requiring attention resources. Theories of attention propose that...
by Dan Williams | Aug 3, 2011 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
In order to formulate a teaching or training program, a coach must first appreciate the stages of learning, and teach students as proposed by these distinct stages. The learner progresses through three phases; cognitive, associative and autonomous. In the cognitive...
by Dan Williams | Aug 1, 2011 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance
The individual differences we observe in the ‘levels of success’ that people achieve in performance of a motor skill depends in large part on the degree to which the person has the motor abilities that are important for the performance of that skill. The...
by Dan Williams | Jul 8, 2011 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance
Traditionally, gym based exercise has been segregated into weightbearing exercise, and cardiovascular exercise. I say ‘gym based exercise’, because before the development of exercise for the sake of exercise (as opposed to exercise in order to survive), no...
