by Dan Williams | Aug 20, 2022 | Blogs, Health, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Nutrition, Psychology, Weight Loss
Money may not buy happiness, but, spent in the right way, can certainly move you towards better health. The global trend towards income as the deciding indicator of success is worrying. The pursuit of income often comes at the expense of all else. At the expense of...
by Dan Williams | Jun 27, 2022 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Individuals with a disability, NDIS, Psychology
We can raise our expectations around what NDIS participants are able to achieve when it comes to exercise. All too often as fitness professionals, we can have the tendency to pigeonhole NDIS participants, and believe that their physical potential is less than it...
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...
