by Dan Williams | Jun 21, 2018 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Nutrition, Programming, Psychology
Short-term lazy is when you look for the easy way to do things in the present, today. If faced with an immediate decision of whether to take the easy option or the hard option, the ‘short-term lazy’ person takes the easy option every time. And, in the...
by Dan Williams | May 24, 2018 | Blogs, Health, Nutrition, Psychology
Have you always fought the scales? Has your health journey been defined by alternating chapters of weight loss and weight gain? Well, there’s a reason for it. And it’s not a problem with you. It’s not an indication of your lack of willpower or...
by Dan Williams | Apr 27, 2018 | Blogs, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Nutrition, Psychology, Weight Loss
The 80/20 rule (or the Pareto Principle) can be seen everywhere. 20% of your customers take up 80% of your time. 80% of a business’ income comes from 20% of a business’ products. 80% of a country’s wealth is in the hands of 20% of the people. 20% of...
by Dan Williams | Apr 24, 2018 | Blogs, Kids, Nutrition
We thought it would be interesting to design a ‘healthy’ Easter egg hunt for kids. We’re defining ‘healthy’, as a hunt that is energy neutral – that is, the children expend as much energy hunting, as they take in by...
by Dan Williams | Apr 10, 2018 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Health, Nutrition, Psychology, Weight Loss
‘Diet’ has such negative connotations. It smacks of sacrifice and discomfort and exclusion and difficulty and inconvenience. For the ‘western world’, the ‘set point’ of nutrition is characterised by highly processed carbohydrates...
by Dan Williams | Feb 16, 2018 | Blogs, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Nutrition, Psychology
Behaviour change is complicated. It starts with the motivation to want to make a change, and the values that support that end result. Then come goals, outcome goals to define your destination, and process goals to define the steps to get there. With a plan in place...
by Dan Williams | Jun 6, 2017 | Blogs, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Nutrition, Psychology
We are creatures of habit. The vast majority of what we do every day is a result of routine. We go through our days segueing from one task to the next – a repetitive and predictable stream of events. It’s no wonder we find it so difficult to introduce new...
by Dan Williams | Apr 9, 2017 | Blogs, CrossFit, Improving Athletic Performance, Nutrition
Caffeine can be a powerful performance enhancer in sport and exercise. Here, we review the literature into its effects and mechanisms, as well as suggested dosing. The literature is largely unanimous in the benefit of caffeine supplementation for physical performance....
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,...
