by Dan Williams | Mar 16, 2011 | Blogs, Exercise, Flexibility, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
Click Here To Access The Full Exercise Warm-Up Library. A warm up should not be generic, but rather, specific to the movement being performed in the workout. Aside from the injury prevention benefits of a warm-up, the efficiency of movement can be drastically...
by Dan Williams | Mar 12, 2011 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance
The Crossfit Open. Unknown? Unknowable? Maybe not. For the uninitiated… “The CrossFit Games Open Qualifiers is a six week, worldwide competition in the sport of fitness. The Open is the first step in the CrossFit Games season and takes place from March 15...
by Dan Williams | Dec 29, 2010 | Blogs, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Improving Athletic Performance
Research (Gill et. al. 2007) reveals that reported measures of exercise intensity “…show the median level of vigorous-activity is consistently ZERO minutes.” Read that again… zero minutes. That doesn’t even take into account high-intensity activity, which...
by Dan Williams | Dec 29, 2010 | Blogs, Health, Nutrition
It has pretty much been accepted that by eating slowly you end up eating less. Reasons for this are plentiful, including the fact that we base our consumption on time spent eating not amount eaten, and the idea that it gives our bodies more time to digest the food and...
by Dan Williams | Dec 29, 2010 | Blogs, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
Ok, so this might sound like the next Terminator Movie – but the truth is, exercise machines could do a lot more damage than Arnie with a grenade launcher. People know how good exercise is. A lot of people exercise. But few exercise smart. It’s time to...
by Dan Williams | Dec 23, 2010 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Exercise, Health, Weight Loss
We know our health is in crisis when words like globesity are being used to describe the extent of world weight problems. When chronic life-threatening conditions are combining their effects, like the recently coined ‘diabesity’. Not just diabetes. Not just obesity....
by Dan Williams | Dec 21, 2010 | Blogs, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
The body should be trained as it is to be used. If the role of a muscle is to create movement, then completing that movement will in turn train the muscle. The hip extensors should be trained by extending the hip, the elbow flexors by flexing the elbow, the knee...
by Dan Williams | Dec 20, 2010 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation
For too long, mainstream exercise has been characterised by low variation. Similar or identical exercises are completed multiple times a week, if not every day. Not only does this create an overly narrow physical response (an adaptation to the familiar requires an...
by Dan Williams | Dec 16, 2010 | Blogs, Health, Nutrition, Weight Loss
I’m all for going food crazy at Christmas, so instead of looking at healthy ways to eat, let’s examine some ‘less-unhealthy’ ideas. If you think about it, the sorts of food we eat at Christmas aren’t really that bad. A full roast has...
by Dan Williams | Dec 14, 2010 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Health
In all fields of science, humans have always searched for a prototype, a model or idea on which all other models or ideas can be based. When we try to solve a problem, we use a heuristic in the hope that by following a narrow set of instructions, we can find the same...
