by Dan Williams | Jul 27, 2018 | Blogs, Improving Athletic Performance, Q&A ROMcast Transcriptions
“If you have an obvious limiting factor in a workout, is it best to work hard on the other movements to make up for it, or go easy on those movements to stay fresh for you weakness?” This all comes down to protecting against the limiting factor. This is...
by Dan Williams | Jul 27, 2018 | Blogs, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming, Q&A ROMcast Transcriptions
“Is it more beneficial to a CrossFit athlete to have a high one rep max, or to be able to do multiple reps close to their max?” All right, I’m going to give you a short answer here and then we’ll delve into the science behind this a little bit...
by Dan Williams | Jul 27, 2018 | Blogs, Uncategorised
“Why do we do tempo squats? What’s the benefit and science behind them?” Let’s first touch on the breathing. It’s unrealistic for you to be holding your breath for a nine second tempo squat, taking one breath at the top and doing that for...
by Dan Williams | Jul 27, 2018 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Q&A ROMcast Transcriptions
“Is the prowler a useful tool to improve top-end leg strength, or is it only useful for conditioning?” Really good question. Using the prowler, and to understand our use of the prowler we need to understand a little bit about the mechanics of muscle...
by Dan Williams | Jul 27, 2018 | Blogs, CrossFit, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming, Q&A ROMcast Transcriptions
“Should I wear a lifting belt? Is it better to squat heavier with a belt, or lighter with no belt?” All right. So, let me answer this in two ways. The first answer I’m going to give is based on faulty assumptions. I’m going to give this answer...
by Dan Williams | Jul 21, 2018 | Blogs, Health, Nutrition, Psychology
The key to breaking bad habits is to understand the cues that are driving your behaviours. In Charles Duhigg’s book, The Power of Habit, he talks about the habit loop: A cue triggers your brain to crave the response from a certain action. A routine is undertaken...
by Dan Williams | Jul 20, 2018 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming, Q&A ROMcast Transcriptions
“A lot of games athletes say that they train for the games, not the open or regionals, so my question is how? How are they still so fit and not peaking for the regionals? Is there such a thing a peaking? Do you peak your athletes for competitions, and if so, how...
by Dan Williams | Jul 20, 2018 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Programming, Psychology
We talk a lot about the benefits of injury. The advantages we can find if we choose to perceive injury as an opportunity, not an invitation to stop training. In our eBook series, ‘Exercising with an Injury’ we talk more about injury as an opportunity:...
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 | Jul 3, 2018 | Blogs, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Nutrition, Psychology, Weight Loss
Habits drive our behaviours. 45% of everything you do in life is a habit. These are behaviours that require no conscious thought. No decision making. No choice. These are the behaviours that operate on autopilot. Habits save energy for the brain by removing the need...
