by Dan Williams | May 11, 2018 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
With CrossFit now no longer in its’ infancy, we’ve learnt a lot about have taught us a lot about ‘known event’ preparation. Here, we break down the step-by-step approach to this vital phase of training and practice. For the majority of the...
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 | Mar 30, 2018 | Blogs, CrossFit, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
For competitive functional fitness athletes, competition is a skill. It takes practice. Just like someone playing team sports needs more than training for ‘match fitness’, an athlete competing in the sport of fitness needs more than training. They need to...
by Dan Williams | Mar 22, 2018 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
So you’ve fallen short in your goals. In your mind, you’ve failed. You feel like the sacrifice and commitment and hard work has been a complete waste. You’re frustrated. You’re feeling like shit. You feel like a failure. You know you shouldn’t but that doesn’t change...
by Dan Williams | Mar 17, 2018 | Blogs, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
Pacing workouts in functional fitness is now widely being accepted as an integral part of performance optimisation. In our article “CrossFits Number One Biggest Pacing Mistake”, we talk discuss that: “CrossFitters face one major problem in trying to...
by Dan Williams | Mar 1, 2018 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
Social media is a great medium to share your accomplishments and the fruits of your labour. It’s an opportunity for you to share with your peers the things you’re most proud of. But there’s a phenomenon emerging of people excusing their amazing...
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 | Feb 2, 2018 | Blogs, CrossFit, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming, Psychology
There’s little argument that being a good CrossFit Athlete is less about the strength of your strengths, and more about the strength of your weaknesses. It’s widely accepted that the lowest hanging fruit of athlete development lies in weakness eradication....
