by Dan Williams | Jan 21, 2016 | Blogs, CrossFit, Flexibility, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
‘Mobility’ is in vogue. Both the word, and the practice. All the cool kids are ‘mobilising’. But first let’s define the term, because I fear it has become a blanket term for the pre- and post- exercise routines that all individuals should complete around their...
by Dan Williams | Jan 19, 2016 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Exercise, Health, Weight Loss
In order to understand the reasons for the incidents of cardiovascular disease in contemporary society, we must understand the situations and selective pressures during the late Paleolithic era. So influential was this period in the scheme of human evolution, that it...
by Dan Williams | Jan 19, 2016 | Blogs, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
One of my university lecturers took the controversial view that every person who injures themselves should have a cross carved into their arm by a scalpel. The idea being, when the cross has healed, so has the underlying injury. The problem is, if an injury is soft...
by Dan Williams | Jan 19, 2016 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Programming
Competitiive CrossFitters (or at least those who prioritise and commit to training) love to work hard. In the most part, this hard work has a perfect positive correlation with rate of return (increased work capacity across broad time and modal domains). There becomes...
by Dan Williams | Jan 19, 2016 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Older Persons, Psychology
CrossFit for health, CrossFit for fitness or CrossFit for performance? The evolution of CrossFit has seen the emergence of an identity crisis of sorts. Is it an exercise program? A sport? A corporation? A brand? This crisis exists not so much within the community...
by Dan Williams | Jun 21, 2015 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Nutrition, Weight Loss
Nutrition – Our Evolutionary Perspective: In order to understand the the basis behind Range of Motion’s position on nutrition, we must understand the situations and selective pressures during the late Paleolithic era. So influential was this period in the...
by Dan Williams | Jun 30, 2014 | Biomechanics, Blogs, Flexibility, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
We’re excited to announce that Physiotherapist Penny Stern is joining Range of Motion’s Clinic team. Penny is a long term client of ROM, and is looking forward to increasing this involvement. Aside from her expertise as a Physiotherapist, Penny has an...
by Dan Williams | Jun 6, 2013 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, CrossFit, Exercise, Health, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
As a coach, treading the fine line between athletes experiencing positive and negative responses to exercise is challenging. Exercise is a form of stress – it’s actually termed ‘Eustress’. Eustress is positive stress, stress causing some...
by Dan Williams | Aug 17, 2012 | Blogs, Health, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Psychology
In a contemporary society where sport plays such a vital role in the human psyche, and athletes are often paid in relation to performance, athletic injury is a major factor not only in sport itself, but in the human society radiating from it. Human nature revolves...
by Dan Williams | Aug 13, 2012 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
Dawn Gregson shares her experiences with overtraining and comes to some valuable conclusions. Learn from her experience. Over the past six months my training regime has been pretty heavy. I have trained five to six times a week with multiple workouts and practice...
