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...
by Dan Williams | Aug 10, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
Neoprene knee sleeves are used extensively in Olympic and Powerlifting. We explore one of the possible benefits – proprioception. Proprioception is the information we receive from our muscles informing us of joint position. Lephart (1997) suggests the mechanism...
by Dan Williams | Aug 7, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
Methods for learning and practicing a new skill differ dependent on the skill type. Whether relatively simple skills like a box jump, or complex skills like Olympic Lifting, we must take a different approach to ensure movement mastery. Organisation and...
by Dan Williams | Aug 5, 2012 | Blogs, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance
The assessment of swimming starts date back to as early as 1959 (Wilson and Marino, 1983). Whilst there has been much research conducted in comparing different types of swim starts, no conclusive results as to which is better have been found. Primarily, a swim start...
by Dan Williams | Jul 31, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Nutrition
Creatine has long been a popular supplement in the bodybuilding community. Ironically, it’s role in strength training has not been as prevalent. Ironically, because one of the primary roles of creatine is in increasing strength. Although bodybuilders are stronger than...
by Dan Williams | Jun 28, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
Regardless of athletic experience, or familiarity with movements, CrossFitters all follow a similar pattern of development. If we can understand this continuum, perhaps we can increase the speed at which we move along it. And for a bunch of people as progress hungry...
by Dan Williams | Jun 19, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Programming
A pre- competition taper acts to allow the recovery of central (nervous system) and peripheral (muscular) fatigue. We examine the literature to explore the fine balance between over-tapering (and thus a drop in performance) and under-tapering (leading to over...
by Dan Williams | Jun 12, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Nutrition
I don’t intend to raise any of my own thoughts or opinions in this post, but rather, to review a small sample of a large body of research into post exercise nutrition with the aim of increasing future performance. For those with access to journal articles...
by Dan Williams | May 25, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
In CrossFit, there’s generally a limit to the number of movements we see in competition. This is for good reason. There are certain movements that are just better at measuring/testing fitness than others. Prior to a competition, most semi-experienced athletes...
by Dan Williams | Apr 22, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
The four minute mile is a sporting cliche. It acts as the definitive example of the cascade affect of an individual reaching a benchmark. Roger Bannister cracked the four minutes in 1954. The achievement of this benchmark opened the floodgates. It spawned a global...
