by Dan Williams | Apr 3, 2016 | Blogs, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
This is part of a five part series on Psychological Skills Training, covering the education, acquisition and practice of psychological skills. Other posts in this series include: Imagery – Psychological Skills Training Self Confidence – Psychological...
by Dan Williams | Apr 3, 2016 | Blogs, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
This is part of a five part series on Psychological Skills Training, covering the education, acquisition and practice of psychological skills. Other posts in this series include: Arousal Regulation – Psychological Skills Training Imagery – Psychological...
by Dan Williams | Apr 3, 2016 | Blogs, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
This is part of a five part series on Psychological Skills Training, covering the education, acquisition and practice of psychological skills. Other posts in this series include: Arousal Regulation – Psychological Skills Training Imagery – Psychological...
by Dan Williams | Mar 20, 2016 | Biomechanics, Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
Movement provides a window into the body. Assessing movement is like detective work. Observing movement and assessing faults gives us clues to identify underlying dysfunction. There are few better diagnostic tools than the squat. The number of directions in which...
by Dan Williams | Mar 16, 2016 | Blogs, CrossFit, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
Buy tickets. Learn to maximise your performance by maximising your mental skills. Do you get stressed or anxious about training, competing or life in general? Do you suffer from low self-confidence in your abilities? Do you sometimes approach exercise or health...
by Dan Williams | Mar 12, 2016 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
Let me preface this article. In CrossFit, for everyone but the 99th percentile, health > performance. This is never, and should never be, in doubt (read: How CrossFit Helps Combat the 19 Major Causes of Premature Death and Disability). So as you’re reading...
by Dan Williams | Mar 6, 2016 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Health, Weight Loss
Knowing our body composition gives us a valuable window into our health. It tells us what’s in there – the ratios of muscle, bone, fat. Knowing these things tells us a lot about our health – the medical conditions we’re predisposed to and the...
by Dan Williams | Feb 28, 2016 | Blogs, Flexibility, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
The explosion of performance based fitness has brought with it the popularisation of recovery. Foam rollers and trigger point balls are no longer confined to yoga and pilates studios, or to the consult rooms of physiotherapists. It’s now more unusual to find a gym...
by Dan Williams | Feb 21, 2016 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Improving Athletic Performance
It’s time to stop attacking non CrossFitters. Barely a week goes by when I don’t see social media slamming of perceived ‘inferior’ forms of exercise and their practitioners. All too often this slamming is from CrossFitters – worse still,...
by Dan Williams | Feb 16, 2016 | Blogs, CrossFit, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
The benefit of your training lies not in the result you get, but in the effort it took to get there. Improvement through physiological change isn’t driven by how much you lift, but by how difficult it was to make that lift. Not by the time or rounds you got, but...
