by Dan Williams | Sep 8, 2010 | Blogs, Exercise, Health
The importance of function, or more specifically, the ability to function must truly be the most important of all the benefits of exercise. A vast percentage of the major indicators of physical ageing can be countered by an effective exercise program. Balance,...
by Dan Williams | Sep 7, 2010 | Blogs, Health, Uncategorised
BMI is one of the main criteria by which the Australian Medical System determines your health. How short you are, and how heavy you are – or more accurately, how heavy you are relative to your height. BMI. Body Mass Index. BMI = Mass (kg) / height (m) squared. Now...
by Dan Williams | Sep 6, 2010 | Blogs, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
Evolution is a wonderful thing. But then along comes Cultural Evolution. We learn to change our environment rather than evolve to suit it. Occasionally it works. Thick clothes keep us warm so we can survive cold climates. Hats keep the skin cancer at bay so we...
by Dan Williams | Sep 5, 2010 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Health, Nutrition, Uncategorised
Fats are good. They get a bad wrap, but we need them. But what happens to fat when it’s cooked? Heating olive oil actually causes a negative chemical change in the fatty acids, releasing ‘toxic oxygenated aldehydes’. These TOA’s cause oxidative...
by Dan Williams | Sep 4, 2010 | Blogs, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Flexibility, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
In the first post in this series (Improving Athletic Performance Through PNF Stretching Part 1) we covered the mechanics of muscle and how the length and strength of a muscle are related. In this, we deal with how to perform PNF stretching to maximise performance. PNF...
by Dan Williams | Aug 31, 2010 | Blogs, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Nutrition
‘Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution’. We shine this light on obesity and see what it reveals. We must first journey back to our ‘environment of evolutionary adaptiveness’. This is just a technical term for the time...
by Dan Williams | Aug 30, 2010 | Blogs, Health
Is there a set of questions we can ask of any questionable health pseudoscience to better form a science based opinion? Turns out there is and it’s been developed by Michael Shermer, publisher of ‘Skeptic Magazine’. Next time you meet a questionable...
by Dan Williams | Aug 24, 2010 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Exercise, Flexibility, Health, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
For bodies evolved to do so much – we spend a lot of our time doing so little. The vast majority of our day is spent in a very limited number of positions. This is never more true than in our sedentary occupations. In fact – the word ‘sedentary’ comes from the Latin...
by Dan Williams | Aug 3, 2010 | Blogs, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Flexibility, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Faciliation is a method of increase muscle length and the range over which force can be applied. PNF has the potential to give you: More strength – without having to make your muscles stronger, More speed – without having to...
