by Dan Williams | Nov 8, 2019 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
Do you ‘work out’? Do you ‘exercise’? Or do you train? At Range of Motion, we train, and there’s an important distinction. You may ask,’What’s the difference?’ or ‘does it really matter what we call it’?...
by Dan Williams | Aug 11, 2019 | Blogs, Business, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming, Weight Loss
As with most things in life, the benefits of exercise adhere to the 80/20 rule – the Pareto Principle. 20% of your customers take up 80% of your time. 80% of a business’ income comes from 20% of a business’ products. 80% of a country’s wealth is in the hands of...
by Dan Williams | Jun 11, 2019 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Exercise, Health
There’s a common theme that runs through the top five killers of men… Exercise can play a life-saving role in every single one. In order, the five biggest killers of mean are: Ischaemic Heart Disease. Lung Cancer. Dementia. Stroke. Chronic Lower...
by Dan Williams | May 30, 2019 | Blogs, For Fitness Professionals, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Nutrition, Weight Loss
The current nutritional trend is ‘Tracking Macros’, measuring and recording the amount of each of the three macronutrients (protein, carbohydrates and fat) you are consuming. The idea behind this is two-fold. Firstly, it (claims to) allow you to closely...
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 | 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 | Nov 30, 2018 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Weight Loss
Sleep is dangerous. Or at least with a rudimentary understanding of evolution, that’s a conclusion you could semi-logically arrive at. Let’s journey back to our caveman days. Sleep was dangerous. Dangerous for our species. It was more dangerous than hunting woolly...
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....
