by Dan Williams | Apr 28, 2022 | Blogs, Individuals with a disability, Psychology
The relationship between an NDIS participant and their exercise professional (usually an Accredited Exercise Physiologist) can be one of the most important connections in that participant’s life. Here are eight things an NDIS participant should look for when choosing...
by Dan Williams | Apr 16, 2022 | Blogs, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming, Psychology, Weight Loss
If you’re a perfectionist who’s struggling to build a long term exercise habit, you may have found you struggle with consistency. And often this disruption comes either from people’s desire to make their exercise sessions perfect, or their belief that more is better....
by Dan Williams | Mar 28, 2022 | Blogs, For Fitness Professionals, Psychology
As fitness business owners, we need to accept that a lot of our clients and members are constantly looking for excuses to stop exercising. Now for many of us, this is really hard to understand. We know how good exercise is. We personally experience the improvements in...
by Dan Williams | Mar 20, 2022 | Blogs, Exercise, Health, Psychology
The simple act of going for a long walk has to be the more underrated forms of exercise there is. And to understand why it’s so underrated, we have to understand the current state of the fitness industry. Because unfortunately, the ‘fitness industry’ as it stands...
by Dan Williams | Feb 22, 2022 | Blogs, Health, Psychology
Health is complicated. Every human being is an impossibly complicated petri dish of variables that all work together to impact our lives. And, viewed in isolation, the advice is pretty simple. Eat more veggies, eat less cake. Smoke less. Exercise more. Drink less....
by Dan Williams | Feb 5, 2022 | Blogs, Health, Psychology
When it comes to learning new exercises and movements, we seem to automatically understand that we get better at things by practicing them. When babies become toddlers, their walking improves the more they do. When kids learn to throw and catch, they become stronger...
by Dan Williams | Oct 16, 2020 | Blogs, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Nutrition, Programming, Psychology, Weight Loss
There is one MASSIVE glaring problem with habit building that no one’s talking about. Because of this oversight, well-meaning people (just like you) launch into a new diet or exercise regime with the best of intentions, but then come crashing down in a ball of flames...
by Dan Williams | Aug 21, 2020 | Blogs, Business, For Fitness Professionals, Psychology
There comes a time when you know enough about something. Nothing against lifelong learning and a growth mindset, but there comes a point when you’ve done enough courses and certificates, and accumulated enough qualifications. In this case, I speak specifically to...
by Dan Williams | Aug 18, 2020 | Blogs, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Nutrition, Psychology
This is part of a series of eight Range of Motion Nutrition Coaching webinars and blogs from Ash Dean, where you will learn how environmental factors and habits form good health and nutrition. Our purpose is to provide you with simple and sustainable behavioural...
by Dan Williams | Aug 14, 2020 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Older Persons, Programming, Psychology, Weight Loss
Usually reserved for big sweaty dudes with bulging muscles and bushy beards, ‘Strongman’ style training may actually be one of the best things you can do for your health and fitness. ‘Strongman’ training is characterised by heavy weights, odd objects and short,...
