by Dan Williams | Aug 19, 2011 | Blogs, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Nutrition
A supplement, by definition, is designed to act as a supplementary to your regular nutrition. In short, the answer of how much to supplement your diet is as much as is necessary to ensure you are receiving the recommended daily intake levels of macro and...
by Dan Williams | Aug 14, 2011 | Blogs, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Nutrition
Magnesium (Mg) is a chemical element playing several major roles in human health and performance. It is present in every type of cell in the human body. Relative to human performance, Magnesium plays a considerable role in the action of ATP. ATP, or adenosine...
by Dan Williams | Aug 10, 2011 | Blogs, Health
In the development of modern Homo sapiens from early Australopithecines there have been many evolutionary compromises, which have left us being imperfect organisms. The Obstetric Dilemma involves the need for the pelvis to expand to accommodate for the birth of large...
by Dan Williams | Aug 5, 2011 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
Human performance is limited by attention and automaticity. Attention is a conscious mental engagement in cognitive or motor task, while automaticity occurs when the same task is performed without requiring attention resources. Theories of attention propose that...
by Dan Williams | Aug 3, 2011 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
In order to formulate a teaching or training program, a coach must first appreciate the stages of learning, and teach students as proposed by these distinct stages. The learner progresses through three phases; cognitive, associative and autonomous. In the cognitive...
by Dan Williams | Aug 1, 2011 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance
The individual differences we observe in the ‘levels of success’ that people achieve in performance of a motor skill depends in large part on the degree to which the person has the motor abilities that are important for the performance of that skill. The...
by Dan Williams | Jul 27, 2011 | Blogs, Health
Humans are not a patient species, and we often sacrifice our future fitness for present success. Natural selection is a process that takes place over many generations, but our egocentric nature warrants that we think only in the short term, to the detriment of both...
by Dan Williams | Jul 13, 2011 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Health, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
There is no doubt what-so-ever that technique is important, and poor technique is dangerous. What I would like to propose is that poor intensity is just as dangerous – just on a different scale. Poor technique causes immediate and acute damage. Damage to...
by Dan Williams | Jul 11, 2011 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Flexibility, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
Complex movements require certain anatomical allowances. Few are as important as thoracic extension. The thoracic spine is the portion of the spine referred to as the upper back. The inherent stiffness of the thoracic spine is no evolutionary accident. It serves a...
by Dan Williams | Jul 8, 2011 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance
Traditionally, gym based exercise has been segregated into weightbearing exercise, and cardiovascular exercise. I say ‘gym based exercise’, because before the development of exercise for the sake of exercise (as opposed to exercise in order to survive), no...
