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 | Jun 12, 2020 | Blogs, Business, Exercise Philosophies, For Fitness Professionals, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
How to get the most out of yourself with the Hawthorne Effect As human, we place a lot of importance on what other people think of us. It makes sense. We want people to like us. We want people to respect us. We want people to think more highly of us. It comes from our...
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 16, 2020 | Blogs, COVID-19, Health, Nutrition, Psychology, Weight Loss
The Isolation 12 SECOND Nutrition Challenge You’ve probably heard of a 12 week nutrition challenge. Perhaps you’ve even done one. And it probably went really well. Maybe you weighed and measured what you ate. You dropped a bit of weight and had more energy. And you...
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 8, 2020 | Blogs, COVID-19, Health, Psychology
How COVID-19 Can Help You Build Habits That Will Last a Lifetime We are creatures of habit. The vast majority of what we do every day is a result of routine. We go through our days segueing from one task to the next – a repetitive and predictable stream of events....
by Dan Williams | Mar 13, 2020 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
Exercise Modifications for No / Limited Equipment Unable to access equipment but still want to follow your usual programming? This resource will allow you to modify your training to ensure you’re still benefitting from your normal program as much as possible....
by Dan Williams | Feb 14, 2020 | Blogs, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Older Persons, Weight Loss
Why You Need to Lift Weights For Your Health Are you lifting weights? You should be. Aside from making you stronger, there are some vital health benefits of resistance training that you just can’t get from any other form of exercise. Resistance training (using...
