by Dan Williams | Mar 28, 2017 | Blogs, CrossFit, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
Access a replay of the webinar here. This live webinar taught attendees: The importance of mental skills in sporting and exercise performance. The strategies and techniques that can be used to develop mental skills. How to put the strategies and techniques into...
by Dan Williams | Mar 2, 2017 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
Learn to maximise your performance by maximising your mental skills. Learn more and secure your ticket. Do you get stressed or anxious about training, competing or life in general? Do you suffer from low self-confidence in your abilities? Do you sometimes approach...
by Dan Williams | Feb 28, 2017 | Biomechanics, Blogs, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
The highly repetitive and specialised nature of swimming exposes athletes to a raft of chronic overuse-based shoulder injuries. Here, we discuss the best exercise to counter these issues. Range of Motion employs two seemingly opposite, though highly complementary...
by Dan Williams | Feb 13, 2017 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
Injury in sport is perhaps one of the most challenging obstacles for an athlete to overcome, and, potentially, one of the most damaging factors to mental state. This psychological damage is often more disruptive than the physical damage, and the way in which the...
by Dan Williams | Jan 30, 2017 | Biomechanics, Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance
The development of new physical skills brings with it a raft of changes in the skill itself, as well as in the individual performing that skill. Regardless of the complexity of the skill, from a toddler walking to an elite athlete performing complex gymnastics or...
by Dan Williams | Jan 16, 2017 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
Training energy systems can get complex. It’s possible to go as far down the rabbit hole as your grasp of the science allows, and usually further than is actually necessary. In fact, you can create a high level athlete with only very basic knowledge of exercise...
by Dan Williams | Jan 3, 2017 | Blogs, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Nutrition, Psychology
Criticism is often leveled at New Year’s Resolutions. The claim is that if you want to make a change in your life, you should make it, and not wait for the 1st of January to roll around. While this argument does hold weight, it ignores the element of the human...
by Dan Williams | Dec 5, 2016 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Flexibility, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Nutrition, Psychology
Everything we do at Range of Motion is based around the Range of Motion Model of Health. For over ten year’s we’ve used this conceptual model for every single client we’ve had in our four branches. This model measures multiple measures of health,...
by Dan Williams | Nov 22, 2016 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
The CrossFit Open always has a few surprises, but we can accurately predict the majority of what will come up. Knowing this, should we train specifically for it? It all depends on your goals. If your goal is to do your absolute best in The CrossFit Open, then yes, you...
by Dan Williams | Aug 31, 2016 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
Volume and intensity are undeniably important elements of high level training. More of both is better. To a point. If an athlete is doing nothing (or not enough), any increase in volume or intensity will result in improvement. The problem however, lies in the athlete...