by Dan Williams | Mar 14, 2012 | Blogs, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming, Uncategorised
Gone are the days of long duration, slow pace running. Long slow runs have become repeated short fast runs. Conditioning has become strength and conditioning. Repetition has become innovation. Boredom has become variation. Sub par performance has become over...
by Dan Williams | Mar 12, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming, Uncategorised
This isn’t intended to be a post describing the physiological definitions of overtraining. It’s not intended to tell you what you should be doing. It’s purpose is to tell you that you HAVE to overtrain to reach your physical ‘potential’....
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 | Mar 27, 2011 | Blogs, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming
By using a basic knowledge of neuromuscular biomechanics, we can discover the speed and weight needed to maximise power output. Power is a good thing. It’s what allows us to lift something heavy, hit something hard, throw something far, run/row/cycle/swim fast...
