by Dan Williams | Apr 16, 2020 | Blogs, COVID-19, Health, Nutrition, Psychology, Weight Loss
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 built some really good nutrition habits… or...
by Dan Williams | Feb 14, 2020 | Blogs, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Older Persons, Weight Loss
Are you lifting weights? You should be. Aside from making you stronger, there are some vital health benefits of resistance training that you just can’t get from any other form of exercise. Resistance training (using your muscles to lift heavy weights, either...
by Dan Williams | Jan 11, 2020 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Health, Nutrition, Weight Loss
I’ve hesitated for a few months to write this article. For a few reasons. It’s an emotionally charged topic. It often promotes argument rather than discussion. How we choose to eat is intensely personal. People get easily offended, fiercely protective, and respond...
by Dan Williams | Dec 13, 2019 | Blogs, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Psychology, Weight Loss
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 weather. We get it, a hot day gives you something...
by Dan Williams | Aug 11, 2019 | Blogs, Business, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Programming, Weight Loss
As with most things in life, the benefits of exercise adhere to the 80/20 rule – the Pareto Principle. 20% of your customers take up 80% of your time. 80% of a business’ income comes from 20% of a business’ products. 80% of a country’s wealth is in the hands of...
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 | Feb 15, 2019 | Blogs, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Weight Loss
Weight loss is really complicated. Or at least that’s what people think. But it doesn’t need to be. Firstly, a disclaimer. Weight loss is more about nutrition than exercise. But of course exercise is still important. So what can we do in the gym to make...
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…...
by Dan Williams | Jan 25, 2019 | Blogs, Exercise, Health, Psychology, Weight Loss
At some stage it became unacceptable to admit out loud that one of your big motives for exercising was to look better. It became something people would fixate and obsess over in their own minds, but would feel embarrassed to voice. Instead, it became...
by Dan Williams | Dec 7, 2018 | Blogs, Exercise, Psychology, Weight Loss
Before our wedding my (then) fiancee (now wife!) and I took dancing lessons. Not unusual for a newly engaged couple looking to wow their friends and family on the wedding night. But the problem was, Ash used to be a competitive ballroom dancer. Needless to say, my...
