by Dan Williams | Aug 18, 2020 | Blogs, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Nutrition, Psychology
This is part of a series of eight Range of Motion Nutrition Coaching webinars and blogs from Ash Dean, where you will learn how environmental factors and habits form good health and nutrition. Our purpose is to provide you with simple and sustainable behavioural...
by Dan Williams | Aug 14, 2020 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Older Persons, Programming, Psychology, Weight Loss
Usually reserved for big sweaty dudes with bulging muscles and bushy beards, ‘Strongman’ style training may actually be one of the best things you can do for your health and fitness. ‘Strongman’ training is characterised by heavy weights, odd objects and short,...
by Dan Williams | Jul 31, 2020 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Nutrition, Older Persons
The research in unanimous in preaching the benefits of creatine supplements for athletes. It allows the body to work at a higher intensity, increases muscle performance, increases muscle mass, increases maximal strength, increases power and increases work capacity....
by Dan Williams | Jul 23, 2020 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
This is part of a series of eight Range of Motion Nutrition Coaching webinars and blogs from Ash Dean, where you will learn how environmental factors and habits form good health and nutrition. Our purpose is to provide you with simple and sustainable behavioural...
by Dan Williams | Jul 17, 2020 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, For Fitness Professionals, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
To the naked eye, an exercise session can sometimes appear to be a random collection of exercises, thrown together in a random order. But with a little understanding of the science, and the effects that different exercises (and orderings) can have on the human body,...
by Dan Williams | Jun 19, 2020 | Blogs, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Programming, Weight Loss
There seems to be a general belief that the HARDER an exercise session is, the more BENEFIT it will give you. That without ending up in a crumpled, sweaty puddle on the floor, the session will be a waste of time. Too often, we tend to think that levels of exertion and...
by Dan Williams | Jun 12, 2020 | Blogs, Business, Exercise Philosophies, For Fitness Professionals, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
As human, we place a lot of importance on what other people think of us. It makes sense. We want people to like us. We want people to respect us. We want people to think more highly of us. It comes from our evolutionary past. If we’re liked, we’re more likely to find...
by Dan Williams | May 6, 2020 | Blogs, COVID-19, CrossFit, Exercise, For Fitness Professionals, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
One of the big fitness challenges of the COVID-19 enforced lockdown is the absence of bars. There’s little argument that if you want to get strong, there’s no better tool than the barbell. And no where is this more apparent than for people who choose Olympic Lifting...
by Dan Williams | May 3, 2020 | Blogs, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
Specific training to improve power has far-reaching benefits for a broad spectrum of sub-populations. But first, let’s define the term. In physics terms, power = force x distance / time. We can simplify this equation by saying that power is the ability to move a...
by Dan Williams | Apr 24, 2020 | COVID-19, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
Getting bored with long runs or repetitive interval training? We’ve got two running sessions you really should try. The beauty of these two sessions is that they’re not just a random assortment of running intervals. They’ve been constructed to give...