by Dan Williams | Mar 31, 2013 | Blogs, CrossFit, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
In my forth year Coaching Psychology unit, I wrote in an assignment… “Mental rehearsal is a poly-sensory experience which involves the creation or recreation of external events, objects, people, skills or experiences. Imagery uses the principles of mental...
by Dan Williams | Mar 12, 2013 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Programming
You can find a full resource for exercising with an injury here: Exercising with an Injury. We like our programming to be bulletproof – unstoppable. We like to have a plan. When we program we work backwards. We determine where we want to be at some point in the...
by Dan Williams | Mar 12, 2013 | Blogs, CrossFit, Improving Athletic Performance, Nutrition
You know that post-workout exhaustive ‘glow’? Where your body’s screaming at you for something, but you’re not quite sure what? Here’s the answer. Within 10 minutes of finishing high intensity exercise, your body has a narrow window...
by Dan Williams | Feb 27, 2013 | Blogs, CrossFit, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
Exercise is an exact science. A training program is objectively scrutinised by the scientific method. We test baseline proficiency across components of fitness. We hypothesise that you will get better at them and construct a program with the aim of making this so. We...
by Dan Williams | Nov 14, 2012 | Blogs, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance
For elite sportspeople looking to find an edge, the training done to prepare the body for the rigours of competition can be as important as sports specific traing itself. Jill Williams explores a sport that you may not instantly link with exercise training –...
by Dan Williams | Sep 27, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
Head to our Facebook page and like us to see all our posts in your newsfeed. In early 2010 I wrote an article for The CrossFit Journal, ‘Weakness Bias Training’. In this article, I said: You are only as strong as the weakest link in your exercise chain....
by Dan Williams | Sep 26, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
Summary: Range of Motion athletes completed a highly structured ten week training program. The participants averaged a 28.93% increase in variables measured. Here, we examine the improvement statistics from this sample. Overview: Range of Motion athletes completed a...
by Dan Williams | Sep 17, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
Agility is a rarely trained, though highly important component of fitness, especially as pertaining to sporting performance. It is the ability to rapidly modify the body’s posititon. Usually we associate this with cutting, weaving and changes of directions in...
by Dan Williams | Aug 15, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance
The type of learning used for varying situations is reliant on the nature of that skill and the desired outcomes of the learning process. This learning type may vary depending on the skill or situation to be taught and includes both implicit and explicit learning...
by Dan Williams | Aug 14, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
From a psychological perspective, everything we do is based on our own intrinsic factors, but to an equal extent, on environmental and group factors. It is these interactions and group variables which bring psychological factors to the fore. Thus, to effectively study...
