by Dan Williams | Jul 13, 2018 | Biomechanics, Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
The use of a lifting belt divides coaches and athletes. The easiest response is often given. ‘Wear it sometimes but not always’. And although this may be technically correct, it doesn’t really help us. So to explore this issue further, we review the research, and then...
by Dan Williams | Nov 21, 2017 | Biomechanics, Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Programming
The pull-up is a key exercise in the development of strength and shoulder health. When done correctly. Many of the issues with pull-ups occur as a result of incorrect shoulder mechanics, often resulting from ineffective methods of scaling. We discuss these mechanics...
by Dan Williams | Nov 7, 2017 | Biomechanics, Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Flexibility, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
It’s human nature to find the easiest way to do things. In fact, it’s in our genes – a survival advantage. In the field of exercise and health however, sometimes the easy way isn’t the best way. We have to fight the deconditioning and...
by Dan Williams | Oct 12, 2017 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Flexibility, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Programming
Your taper in the days leading up to a competition is a vital part of your preparation. But a taper doesn’t mean inactivity. Here, we outline the best way to prepare your body for competition. For the full picture, and a day-by-day guide from a week out, read...
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 | 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 | Sep 26, 2016 | Blogs, Health, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Nutrition, Weight Loss
In our environment of evolutionary adaptiveness (the environment where we spent a large chunk of our time evolving), our omega 3 (DHA and EPA primarily from seafood) to 6 (seed/vegetable oils) ratio was approximately 1:1. This reduced the instances of inflammatory...
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...
by Dan Williams | Aug 31, 2016 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
Exercise is a form of stress – it’s actually termed ‘Eustress’. Eustress is positive stress, stress causing some favourable effect to your body. None-the-less, it is stress, and stress has the potential to cause damage and degeneration. The...
