by Dan Williams | Apr 9, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
If you run with a tight illio-tibial band, you’ll eventually end up with knee pain. If you do 1000 jumping pull-ups after a six month break from training, you’ll get rhabdomyloysis. If you go overhead without sufficient scapula stability, you’ll...
by Dan Williams | Apr 3, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
As CrossFitters, we pride ourselves on the universal scaleability of our game. For the most part – this is an infinitely useful thing. It opens up the movements and programming to the masses. We scale weights, reps, movements and time, and we do so to keep the...
by Dan Williams | Mar 14, 2012 | Blogs, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance
Efficient, effective, and well programmed exercise modifies variables to ensure mastery across as many different eventualities as possible. We modify weights, time, size, temperature, reps and anything else we can. Yet, somewhat confusingly, we often train at the same...
by Dan Williams | Mar 14, 2012 | Blogs, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming, Uncategorised
Gone are the days of long duration, slow pace running. Long slow runs have become repeated short fast runs. Conditioning has become strength and conditioning. Repetition has become innovation. Boredom has become variation. Sub par performance has become over...
by Dan Williams | Mar 12, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming, Uncategorised
This isn’t intended to be a post describing the physiological definitions of overtraining. It’s not intended to tell you what you should be doing. It’s purpose is to tell you that you HAVE to overtrain to reach your physical ‘potential’....
by Dan Williams | Nov 29, 2011 | Blogs, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance
Lab based Exercise Scientists and Physiologists have long used VO2 as the gold measure of ‘fitness’. Should we alter this standard to measure the ABILITY to complete physical tasks. VO2 measures the POTENTIAL to complete physical tasks. VO2 compares the...
by Dan Williams | Sep 4, 2011 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance
We train hard – real hard. So how can we avoid hand tears that may slow us down? Guest Blogger Andrew Mills explores… As athletes we train hard and consistently. As a consequence of hard training we more often than not end up with little cumbrances along...
by Dan Williams | Aug 19, 2011 | Blogs, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Nutrition
A supplement, by definition, is designed to act as a supplementary to your regular nutrition. In short, the answer of how much to supplement your diet is as much as is necessary to ensure you are receiving the recommended daily intake levels of macro and...
by Dan Williams | Aug 14, 2011 | Blogs, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Nutrition
Magnesium (Mg) is a chemical element playing several major roles in human health and performance. It is present in every type of cell in the human body. Relative to human performance, Magnesium plays a considerable role in the action of ATP. ATP, or adenosine...
by Dan Williams | Aug 5, 2011 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
Human performance is limited by attention and automaticity. Attention is a conscious mental engagement in cognitive or motor task, while automaticity occurs when the same task is performed without requiring attention resources. Theories of attention propose that...
