by Dan Williams | Apr 1, 2011 | Blogs, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance
Bouncing at the bottom of a rep gives you more power. But why? It’s due to something called a ‘eccentric-concentric movement pattern’. To understand this, you need a basic knowledge of neuromuscular biomechanics. A concentric contraction occurs when...
by Dan Williams | Mar 29, 2011 | Blogs, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Psychology
The worst part of injury often isn’t the pain but the ongoing psychological withdrawal from exercise. Luckily, there is a way to minimise the strength losses caused by a single limb injury. A large percentage of the strength in a limb isn’t caused by...
by Dan Williams | Mar 27, 2011 | Blogs, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
By using a basic knowledge of neuromuscular biomechanics, we can discover the speed and weight needed to maximise power output. Power is a good thing. It’s what allows us to lift something heavy, hit something hard, throw something far, run/row/cycle/swim fast...
by Dan Williams | Mar 16, 2011 | Blogs, Exercise, Flexibility, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
Click Here To Access The Full Exercise Warm-Up Library. A warm up should not be generic, but rather, specific to the movement being performed in the workout. Aside from the injury prevention benefits of a warm-up, the efficiency of movement can be drastically...
by Dan Williams | Mar 12, 2011 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance
The Crossfit Open. Unknown? Unknowable? Maybe not. For the uninitiated… “The CrossFit Games Open Qualifiers is a six week, worldwide competition in the sport of fitness. The Open is the first step in the CrossFit Games season and takes place from March 15...
by Dan Williams | Dec 29, 2010 | Blogs, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Improving Athletic Performance
Research (Gill et. al. 2007) reveals that reported measures of exercise intensity “…show the median level of vigorous-activity is consistently ZERO minutes.” Read that again… zero minutes. That doesn’t even take into account high-intensity activity, which...
by Dan Williams | Dec 29, 2010 | Blogs, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
Ok, so this might sound like the next Terminator Movie – but the truth is, exercise machines could do a lot more damage than Arnie with a grenade launcher. People know how good exercise is. A lot of people exercise. But few exercise smart. It’s time to...
by Dan Williams | Dec 21, 2010 | Blogs, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
The body should be trained as it is to be used. If the role of a muscle is to create movement, then completing that movement will in turn train the muscle. The hip extensors should be trained by extending the hip, the elbow flexors by flexing the elbow, the knee...
by Dan Williams | Dec 20, 2010 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
For too long, mainstream exercise has been characterised by low variation. Similar or identical exercises are completed multiple times a week, if not every day. Not only does this create an overly narrow physical response (an adaptation to the familiar requires an...
by Dan Williams | Dec 9, 2010 | Blogs, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
The exists in Sports Psychology a concept termed the ‘Ringlemann Effect’. Basically, this is a form of Social Loafing, where the more people involved in a task, the less effort each of these people will put in. If the Ringlemann Effect can be overcome,...
