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 20, 2016 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Health, Older Persons, Weight Loss
The interactions between exercise and menopause provide insight into how to best manage health during this stage of a woman’s life. Menopause is classified by the cessation of a woman’s menstrual cycle, and the conclusion of the stage of life where they are able to...
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 | 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 | Sep 19, 2016 | Blogs, Uncategorised
Commitment is important. Commitment to self is the foundation on which actions, habits and, ultimately, long term behaviour change is built. It doesn’t matter what you’re committing to, a certain way of eating, an exercise plan, a relationship – the same underlying...
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...
by Dan Williams | Aug 31, 2016 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Flexibility, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Programming, Psychology
In the list of the top ten causes of premature death, cancer appears three times. Top factors causing loss of life years due to premature death (in order): Ischaemic heart disease Stroke and other cerebrovascular disease Trachea, bronchus, lung cancers Alzheimer and...
by Dan Williams | Aug 29, 2016 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, CrossFit, Exercise, Health, Older Persons
In the list of the top ten causes of premature death, cancer appears three times. Top factors causing loss of life years due to premature death (in order): Ischaemic heart disease Stroke and other cerebrovascular disease Trachea, bronchus, lung cancers Alzheimer and...
