by Dan Williams | Mar 22, 2018 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
So you’ve fallen short in your goals. In your mind, you’ve failed. You feel like the sacrifice and commitment and hard work has been a complete waste. You’re frustrated. You’re feeling like shit. You feel like a failure. You know you shouldn’t but that doesn’t change...
by Dan Williams | Mar 17, 2018 | Blogs, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
Pacing workouts in functional fitness is now widely being accepted as an integral part of performance optimisation. In our article “CrossFits Number One Biggest Pacing Mistake”, we talk discuss that: “CrossFitters face one major problem in trying to...
by Dan Williams | Mar 1, 2018 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
Social media is a great medium to share your accomplishments and the fruits of your labour. It’s an opportunity for you to share with your peers the things you’re most proud of. But there’s a phenomenon emerging of people excusing their amazing...
by Dan Williams | Feb 16, 2018 | Blogs, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Nutrition, Psychology
Behaviour change is complicated. It starts with the motivation to want to make a change, and the values that support that end result. Then come goals, outcome goals to define your destination, and process goals to define the steps to get there. With a plan in place...
by Dan Williams | Feb 2, 2018 | Blogs, CrossFit, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming, Psychology
There’s little argument that being a good CrossFit Athlete is less about the strength of your strengths, and more about the strength of your weaknesses. It’s widely accepted that the lowest hanging fruit of athlete development lies in weakness eradication....
by Dan Williams | Jan 19, 2018 | Blogs, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
The compounding effect of improving on the ‘one-percenters’ is, though cliche, a powerful way of creating a long term upward trend. Whether in business, health, performance or personal development, this strategy of creating ‘marginal gains’ is...
by Dan Williams | Dec 5, 2017 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
Much importance is placed on the success of each individual training session an athlete completes. Although the sum of these individual session is important, sometimes the emphasis placed on this ‘micro view’ of progress can be damaging. Negative reactions...
by Dan Williams | Oct 19, 2017 | Blogs, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
Flow. The Zone. Ideal Performance State. Runner’s High. Being at one with… Each of these refers to an optimal state of consciousness where we feel our best and perform at our best. An inverted U model shows the relationship between performance and arousal,...
by Dan Williams | Sep 26, 2017 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
Bad training days happen. They’re part of the game. The first step in learning to deal with them, is to accept that they WILL happen. Once you have this acceptance, you give yourself permission to have an ‘off-day’, and the associated stress or...
by Dan Williams | Sep 12, 2017 | Blogs, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
There is no shortage of resources and opportunities available to improve health. Education is at an all-time high. Exercise in its varying forms is unequivocally accepted as a positive life choice. Nutrition information and guidelines are (in the majority) now...
