by Dan Williams | Dec 7, 2018 | Blogs, Exercise, Psychology, Weight Loss
Before our wedding my (then) fiancee (now wife!) and I took dancing lessons. Not unusual for a newly engaged couple looking to wow their friends and family on the wedding night. But the problem was, Ash used to be a competitive ballroom dancer. Needless to say, my...
by Dan Williams | Nov 23, 2018 | Blogs, Exercise, Health, Psychology, Weight Loss
Starting exercise can be really hard. Let’s face it, starting ANYTHING can be really hard. It’s like pushing a car, the first metre takes a superhuman effort, but then once it’s rolling, the inertia makes it easy to keep going. Exercise is the same....
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, 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...
by Dan Williams | Oct 26, 2018 | Blogs, Exercise, Health, Psychology, Weight Loss
The ‘enjoyment factor’ can be a major obstacle to starting and maintaining healthy exercise habits. Too often, exercise is perceived as a negative and, although no one doubts the benefits, the barrier to entry is just too great to be overcome. As with any...
by Dan Williams | Oct 12, 2018 | Blogs, Exercise, Health, Psychology, Weight Loss
Maybe this is you… You get out of breath walking up the stairs. You’re a bit heavier now than you were a few years ago, and you know you’ll be a bit heavier in a few years than you are now. Your knees and back ache. Maybe you’re on medication. You’d like to be...
by admin | Aug 17, 2018 | Blogs, Improving Athletic Performance, Nutrition, Psychology, Weight Loss
To celebrate the launch of the Training Tracker, we’ve distilled all the research on behaviour change down to just six steps. Follow these steps and write your future. We created the Training Tracker because people told us they needed a better way. A better way...
by Dan Williams | Aug 5, 2018 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Nutrition, Psychology
Ever get a dry mouth before a big event? Maybe it’s a job interview. Maybe it’s the CrossFit Open. Maybe you’re about to ask someone out on a date. Why do we get a dry mouth? And what can we learn from this experience to improve our performance?...
by Dan Williams | Jul 21, 2018 | Blogs, Health, Nutrition, Psychology
The key to breaking bad habits is to understand the cues that are driving your behaviours. In Charles Duhigg’s book, The Power of Habit, he talks about the habit loop: A cue triggers your brain to crave the response from a certain action. A routine is undertaken...
