by Dan Williams | Nov 15, 2018 | Blogs, Exercise, Health, Older Persons, Psychology, Weight Loss
Are you over age 25? Your best years may behind you! Scary fact, but it doesn’t have to be true. After the age of 25, the metabolic rate of the average person drops by two to four percent every decade. But what does this mean? Well, your metabolic rate is the...
by Dan Williams | Nov 9, 2018 | Blogs, Health, Nutrition, Psychology, Weight Loss
If you eat with chopsticks, you’ll lose weight, become healthier and live longer. If you eat less you’ll live longer. It’s a concept widely accepted in the scientific literature. Of course, taken to the extreme will give you disordered eating, but...
by Dan Williams | Nov 2, 2018 | Blogs, Q&A ROMcast Transcriptions
Geoff Asks: How many minutes between eating healthy food and consuming caffeine and vice versa, should people wait, so as not to inhibit the macro and micro nutrient absorption. For example, I’ve heard caffeine blocks vitamin C and that this impacts protein...
by Dan Williams | Nov 2, 2018 | Blogs, Q&A ROMcast Transcriptions
Leanne asks: Why are pull-ups more effective for me with no gymnastic grips on? Do I rely on my grip more when I’m not wearing the grips? Is this why it’s better? TRANSCRIPTION FROM THE ROMCAST PODCAST: Okay, this comes down to a matter of physics....
by Dan Williams | Nov 2, 2018 | Blogs, Q&A ROMcast Transcriptions
Casey asks: “How much is my training affected when I have to stop and start or take an extra minute to tend to kids or to feed the baby? It’s not every session but it does happen.” TRANSCRIPTION FROM THE ROMCAST PODCAST: Well, of course your training...
by Dan Williams | Nov 2, 2018 | Blogs, Q&A ROMcast Transcriptions
Karen asks, “When do you need to start buying accessories like knees sleeves and lifting belts?” TRANSCRIPTION FROM THE ROMCAST PODCAST: The short answer to this is you never NEED to. You never NEED to start buying these accessories. But, they can be...
by Dan Williams | Nov 2, 2018 | Blogs, Q&A ROMcast Transcriptions
Karen asks, “How do you overcome feeling intimated and self-conscious as a newcomer when you see people throwing barbells over their heads and swinging around on pull-up bars?” TRANSCRIPTION FROM THE ROMCAST PODCAST: Okay. Karen, yes, we understand. This...
by Dan Williams | Nov 2, 2018 | Blogs, Q&A ROMcast Transcriptions
Richo asks: “As I’ve gone past 40, I found I don’t recover anywhere near as fast as I used to. I currently try and roughly every second day and quite often I’m still sore and am unable to loosen up, and it inhibits movements and sometimes it...
by Dan Williams | Nov 2, 2018 | Blogs, Q&A ROMcast Transcriptions
Pip asks: “If you only have a certain amount of time in the morning, say 60 minutes, how do you break up that hour in terms of your warm-up, you pre-exercise routine, your training, and your post-exercise routine?” TRANSCRIPTION FROM THE ROMCAST PODCAST:...
by Dan Williams | Nov 2, 2018 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Flexibility, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Nutrition, Programming, Psychology, Weight Loss
The Range of Motion Model of Health sets down the principles for everything we do at Range of Motion. The model resembles a ‘wagon wheel’ with individual spokes. Each spoke is required to keep the wheel circular. Should one spoke fail (even thought the...
