by Dan Williams | Aug 20, 2022 | Blogs, Health, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Nutrition, Psychology, Weight Loss
Money may not buy happiness, but, spent in the right way, can certainly move you towards better health. The global trend towards income as the deciding indicator of success is worrying. The pursuit of income often comes at the expense of all else. At the expense of...
by Dan Williams | Jul 23, 2022 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Individuals with a disability, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, NDIS, Programming
While we realise there is a huge range of abilities for NDIS participants, we’ve created a ‘top seven’ list for exercise we think they should build towards. Of course, there needs to be a huge degree of individualisation and variation to suit the unique needs of the...
by Dan Williams | Jul 9, 2022 | Blogs, Exercise, Health, Older Persons
When you’ve worked with and helped as many people as we have at Range of Motion, you pick up on a lot of common problems. And there’s no population of people who need an individualised, health first approach, more than women in their early 60s. Every week, we sit down...
by Dan Williams | Jun 27, 2022 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Individuals with a disability, NDIS, Psychology
We can raise our expectations around what NDIS participants are able to achieve when it comes to exercise. All too often as fitness professionals, we can have the tendency to pigeonhole NDIS participants, and believe that their physical potential is less than it...
by Dan Williams | Jun 11, 2022 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming, Weight Loss
What’s the best piece of cardio equipment to get for a home gym? It really comes down to the ‘big four’. Rower (we prefer concept 2). Bike Erg (we prefer concept 2). Ski Erg (we prefer concept 2). Air Bike (we prefer Rogue Echo Bike). So let’s count these down from...
by Dan Williams | Apr 16, 2022 | Blogs, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming, Psychology, Weight Loss
If you’re a perfectionist who’s struggling to build a long term exercise habit, you may have found you struggle with consistency. And often this disruption comes either from people’s desire to make their exercise sessions perfect, or their belief that more is better....
by Dan Williams | Apr 2, 2022 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Individuals with a disability, Older Persons, Programming
Olympic Weightlifting. Even the sheer name strikes fear into people who are maybe a little overwhelmed by gyms and exercise. Then they learn a little more about it, and the fear only grows! And we have to admit, it does look pretty scary. Muscly people at the Olympics...
by Dan Williams | Mar 20, 2022 | Blogs, Exercise, Health, Psychology
The simple act of going for a long walk has to be the more underrated forms of exercise there is. And to understand why it’s so underrated, we have to understand the current state of the fitness industry. Because unfortunately, the ‘fitness industry’ as it stands...
by Dan Williams | Feb 22, 2022 | Blogs, Health, Psychology
Health is complicated. Every human being is an impossibly complicated petri dish of variables that all work together to impact our lives. And, viewed in isolation, the advice is pretty simple. Eat more veggies, eat less cake. Smoke less. Exercise more. Drink less....
by Dan Williams | Feb 5, 2022 | Blogs, Health, Psychology
When it comes to learning new exercises and movements, we seem to automatically understand that we get better at things by practicing them. When babies become toddlers, their walking improves the more they do. When kids learn to throw and catch, they become stronger...
