by Dan Williams | Jan 11, 2020 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Health, Nutrition, Weight Loss
Vegan Vs Omnivorous Diets: A Review of the Scientific Literature I’ve hesitated for a few months to write this article. For a few reasons. It’s an emotionally charged topic. It often promotes argument rather than discussion. How we choose to eat is intensely...
by Dan Williams | Dec 13, 2019 | Blogs, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology, Weight Loss
The Surprising Benefits of Exercising on a Hot Day There’s nothing like a hot day to empty a gym. As the heat rises, exercise levels drop. And when people DO manage to stick with their exercise habits, it’s done so with the invariable complaints about the...
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...
