by Dan Williams | Jan 19, 2016 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
Life is a series of choices, a series of decisions. I’ve noticed that’s it’s usually the least favourable decision that leads to the most favourable outcome. Decision A is very easy to make. It requires no great work or dedication (usually just a...
by Dan Williams | Jan 19, 2016 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Exercise, Health, Weight Loss
In order to understand the reasons for the incidents of cardiovascular disease in contemporary society, we must understand the situations and selective pressures during the late Paleolithic era. So influential was this period in the scheme of human evolution, that it...
by Dan Williams | Jan 19, 2016 | Blogs, Uncategorised
Since the dawn of human thought, humans have endeavored to explain their world. But to really appreciate the reason and nature of our being, we shouldn’t ask why, but how. If we ask why we will be met with a range of superficial answers. The question of how is met...
by Dan Williams | Jan 19, 2016 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Flexibility, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
The importance of ankle mobility is paramount in the squat – in fact, any closed chain movement where the foot is in contact with the ground. Dorsi-flexion of the ankle (ie: lifting the ball of the foot with the heel in contact with the ground) is perhaps the...
by Dan Williams | Jan 19, 2016 | Blogs, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
One of my university lecturers took the controversial view that every person who injures themselves should have a cross carved into their arm by a scalpel. The idea being, when the cross has healed, so has the underlying injury. The problem is, if an injury is soft...
by Dan Williams | Jan 19, 2016 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Programming
Competitiive CrossFitters (or at least those who prioritise and commit to training) love to work hard. In the most part, this hard work has a perfect positive correlation with rate of return (increased work capacity across broad time and modal domains). There becomes...
by Dan Williams | Jan 19, 2016 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Nutrition
Daily Training, Movement Preparation, Nutrition and Mental Preparation Guidelines: 6-7 days from competition. 4-5 days from competition. 2-3 days from competition. 1 day from competition + competition day....
by Dan Williams | Jan 19, 2016 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
In my opinion, there is no way to be a good CrossFitter without consistent and long term weakness biasing. ‘CrossFitness’ is largely dependant on two things; the magnitude of fitness and the balance of its components. Balance without magnitude delivers a...
by Dan Williams | Jan 19, 2016 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Older Persons, Psychology
CrossFit for health, CrossFit for fitness or CrossFit for performance? The evolution of CrossFit has seen the emergence of an identity crisis of sorts. Is it an exercise program? A sport? A corporation? A brand? This crisis exists not so much within the community...
by Dan Williams | Jan 19, 2016 | Blogs, CrossFit, Improving Athletic Performance, Nutrition
Athletes work hard for months leading up to competition to ensure that when they stand in front of that first barbell, they know there is not a thing they could have done differently to make themselves better prepared. But these months of intensity, of working on...
