by Dan Williams | Mar 16, 2016 | Blogs, CrossFit, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
Buy tickets. Learn to maximise your performance by maximising your mental skills. Do you get stressed or anxious about training, competing or life in general? Do you suffer from low self-confidence in your abilities? Do you sometimes approach exercise or health...
by Dan Williams | Mar 12, 2016 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
Let me preface this article. In CrossFit, for everyone but the 99th percentile, health > performance. This is never, and should never be, in doubt (read: How CrossFit Helps Combat the 19 Major Causes of Premature Death and Disability). So as you’re reading...
by Dan Williams | Feb 16, 2016 | Blogs, CrossFit, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
The benefit of your training lies not in the result you get, but in the effort it took to get there. Improvement through physiological change isn’t driven by how much you lift, but by how difficult it was to make that lift. Not by the time or rounds you got, but...
by Dan Williams | Jan 19, 2016 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
Life is a series of choices, a series of decisions. I’ve noticed that’s it’s usually the least favourable decision that leads to the most favourable outcome. Decision A is very easy to make. It requires no great work or dedication (usually just a...
by Dan Williams | Jan 19, 2016 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Older Persons, Psychology
CrossFit for health, CrossFit for fitness or CrossFit for performance? The evolution of CrossFit has seen the emergence of an identity crisis of sorts. Is it an exercise program? A sport? A corporation? A brand? This crisis exists not so much within the community...
by Dan Williams | Mar 31, 2013 | Blogs, CrossFit, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
In my forth year Coaching Psychology unit, I wrote in an assignment… “Mental rehearsal is a poly-sensory experience which involves the creation or recreation of external events, objects, people, skills or experiences. Imagery uses the principles of mental...
by Dan Williams | Oct 11, 2012 | Blogs, Exercise, Kids, Psychology
Reinforcement is arguably the most dominant factor influencing and shaping physical activity levels in children. Positive reinforcement and encouragement from peers and authoritative figures teaches kids that physical activity in both a is not only acceptable, but...
by Dan Williams | Aug 17, 2012 | Blogs, Health, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Psychology
In a contemporary society where sport plays such a vital role in the human psyche, and athletes are often paid in relation to performance, athletic injury is a major factor not only in sport itself, but in the human society radiating from it. Human nature revolves...
by Dan Williams | Aug 14, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology
From a psychological perspective, everything we do is based on our own intrinsic factors, but to an equal extent, on environmental and group factors. It is these interactions and group variables which bring psychological factors to the fore. Thus, to effectively study...
by Dan Williams | Aug 3, 2012 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, CrossFit, Health, Psychology
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD is one of the most over diagnosed and misunderstood conditions effecting people in today’s times. Its symptoms include inattentiveness, impulsiveness, hyperactivity and hyper focus just to name a few. Many of these...
