by Dan Williams | Jun 12, 2020 | Blogs, Business, Exercise Philosophies, For Fitness Professionals, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
How to get the most out of yourself with the Hawthorne Effect As human, we place a lot of importance on what other people think of us. It makes sense. We want people to like us. We want people to respect us. We want people to think more highly of us. It comes from our...
by Dan Williams | Apr 26, 2020 | Blogs, COVID-19, Psychology
15 Things You Can Do To Make You More Likely To Use Your Home Gym So you’ve settled into the ‘new world’ (at least for now). You’re beginning to build some new routines and COVID-19 isolation is starting to feel like the ‘new normal’. And you’ve managed to scrape...
by Dan Williams | Apr 16, 2020 | Blogs, COVID-19, Health, Nutrition, Psychology, Weight Loss
The Isolation 12 SECOND Nutrition Challenge You’ve probably heard of a 12 week nutrition challenge. Perhaps you’ve even done one. And it probably went really well. Maybe you weighed and measured what you ate. You dropped a bit of weight and had more energy. And you...
by Dan Williams | Apr 8, 2020 | Blogs, COVID-19, Health, Psychology
How COVID-19 Can Help You Build Habits That Will Last a Lifetime We are creatures of habit. The vast majority of what we do every day is a result of routine. We go through our days segueing from one task to the next – a repetitive and predictable stream of events....
by Dan Williams | Dec 13, 2019 | Blogs, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology, Weight Loss
The Surprising Benefits of Exercising on a Hot Day There’s nothing like a hot day to empty a gym. As the heat rises, exercise levels drop. And when people DO manage to stick with their exercise habits, it’s done so with the invariable complaints about the...
by Dan Williams | Jul 25, 2019 | Blogs, Business, For Fitness Professionals, Psychology
A coat-of-arms-bearing sheet of paper has long been the key to a successful career.A tertiary degree or qualification has been the first item on the list of requirements for new job applicants.But there’s a trend emerging, a trend away from education, and...
by Dan Williams | May 3, 2019 | Biomechanics, Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Flexibility, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Nutrition, Programming, Psychology
The Range of Motion Athlete Camp is a two day Perth event for CrossFitters, designed to help you become a better athlete, whether you’re a complete beginner or an elite competitor. We’ve sought out the leading coaches in their fields, and brought them together to...
by Dan Williams | Apr 12, 2019 | Blogs, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance, Nutrition, Psychology, Weight Loss
One percenters. Marginal gains. They’re touted as the solution to all our problems. We search for these ‘hacks’ in our lives. Tiny things we can do that will push us towards better health, more financial success, greater happiness. And sure, these...
by Dan Williams | Mar 8, 2019 | Blogs, Exercise, For Fitness Professionals, Health, Psychology, Weight Loss
General Population (aka 1 in 3 Australians): “I don’t have time to exercise”. Fitness Professional: “You do have time, it’s just that you’re not prioritising exercise”. Standard conversation. Heard it a million times. And...
by Dan Williams | Feb 8, 2019 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Nutrition, Programming, Psychology, Weight Loss
Stress is stress. Sure it takes different forms, but they all go in to the same ‘stress bucket’ – and once that bucket’s full, it starts to overflow. Let’s talk about what this means. When you’ve got a tight work deadline…...
