by Dan Williams | Aug 10, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
Neoprene knee sleeves are used extensively in Olympic and Powerlifting. We explore one of the possible benefits – proprioception. Proprioception is the information we receive from our muscles informing us of joint position. Lephart (1997) suggests the mechanism...
by Dan Williams | Aug 8, 2012 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, CrossFit, Exercise, Health, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
Guest author Nina Jurak explores her experiences with compartment syndrome and discusses effective treatment. What started off as numb toes and shin pain was later diagnosed as compartment syndrome in both my lower legs by a doctor, physiotherapist and podiatrist....
by Dan Williams | Aug 7, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
Methods for learning and practicing a new skill differ dependent on the skill type. Whether relatively simple skills like a box jump, or complex skills like Olympic Lifting, we must take a different approach to ensure movement mastery. Organisation and...
by Dan Williams | Aug 5, 2012 | Blogs, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance
The assessment of swimming starts date back to as early as 1959 (Wilson and Marino, 1983). Whilst there has been much research conducted in comparing different types of swim starts, no conclusive results as to which is better have been found. Primarily, a swim start...
by Dan Williams | Aug 3, 2012 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, CrossFit, Health, Psychology
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD is one of the most over diagnosed and misunderstood conditions effecting people in today’s times. Its symptoms include inattentiveness, impulsiveness, hyperactivity and hyper focus just to name a few. Many of these...
by Dan Williams | Jul 31, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Nutrition
Creatine has long been a popular supplement in the bodybuilding community. Ironically, it’s role in strength training has not been as prevalent. Ironically, because one of the primary roles of creatine is in increasing strength. Although bodybuilders are stronger than...
by Dan Williams | Jul 23, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise
“Regularly learn and play new sports” Strongman Qualifier. Steve Bray summarises Range of Motion’s performance and experience at the WA Strongman Second Qualifier: Recently, myself and five other Range Of Motion athletes attacked head on our very first...
by Dan Williams | Jun 28, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
Regardless of athletic experience, or familiarity with movements, CrossFitters all follow a similar pattern of development. If we can understand this continuum, perhaps we can increase the speed at which we move along it. And for a bunch of people as progress hungry...
by Dan Williams | Jun 25, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Weight Loss
Guest author Matthew Webb apologies for the collective barrage that is CrossFit-hysteria. Dear non-CrossFitting friends: please be patient with us. It’s just that we’re really stoked. Disclaimer: this post is going to sound like an advertisement for CrossFit. Sorry...
by Dan Williams | Jun 19, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Programming
A pre- competition taper acts to allow the recovery of central (nervous system) and peripheral (muscular) fatigue. We examine the literature to explore the fine balance between over-tapering (and thus a drop in performance) and under-tapering (leading to over...
