by admin | Aug 17, 2018 | Blogs, Improving Athletic Performance, Nutrition, Psychology, Weight Loss
Recording, measuring and tracking your exercise and health behaviours all exist to assist you in creating a long term, sustainable behaviour change. This allows you to build long term, healthy habits. We can follow a specific process to create these long term...
by Dan Williams | Jul 3, 2018 | Blogs, Exercise, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Nutrition, Psychology, Weight Loss
Habits drive our behaviours. 45% of everything you do in life is a habit. These are behaviours that require no conscious thought. No decision making. No choice. These are the behaviours that operate on autopilot. Habits save energy for the brain by removing the need...
by Dan Williams | Apr 27, 2018 | Blogs, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Nutrition, Psychology, Weight Loss
The 80/20 rule (or the Pareto Principle) can be seen everywhere. 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 20% of the people. 20% of...
by Dan Williams | Apr 10, 2018 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Health, Nutrition, Psychology, Weight Loss
‘Diet’ has such negative connotations. It smacks of sacrifice and discomfort and exclusion and difficulty and inconvenience. For the ‘western world’, the ‘set point’ of nutrition is characterised by highly processed carbohydrates...
by Dan Williams | Dec 20, 2016 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Health, Older Persons, Weight Loss
The interactions between exercise and menopause provide insight into how to best manage health during this stage of a woman’s life. Menopause is classified by the cessation of a woman’s menstrual cycle, and the conclusion of the stage of life where they are able to...
by Dan Williams | Sep 26, 2016 | Blogs, Health, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Nutrition, Weight Loss
In our environment of evolutionary adaptiveness (the environment where we spent a large chunk of our time evolving), our omega 3 (DHA and EPA primarily from seafood) to 6 (seed/vegetable oils) ratio was approximately 1:1. This reduced the instances of inflammatory...
by Dan Williams | Mar 6, 2016 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Health, Weight Loss
Knowing our body composition gives us a valuable window into our health. It tells us what’s in there – the ratios of muscle, bone, fat. Knowing these things tells us a lot about our health – the medical conditions we’re predisposed to and the...
by Dan Williams | Jan 19, 2016 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Exercise, Health, Weight Loss
In order to understand the reasons for the incidents of cardiovascular disease in contemporary society, we must understand the situations and selective pressures during the late Paleolithic era. So influential was this period in the scheme of human evolution, that it...
by Dan Williams | Jun 21, 2015 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Nutrition, Weight Loss
Nutrition – Our Evolutionary Perspective: In order to understand the the basis behind Range of Motion’s position on nutrition, we must understand the situations and selective pressures during the late Paleolithic era. So influential was this period in the...
by Dan Williams | Jun 25, 2012 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Weight Loss
Guest author Matthew Webb apologies for the collective barrage that is CrossFit-hysteria. Dear non-CrossFitting friends: please be patient with us. It’s just that we’re really stoked. Disclaimer: this post is going to sound like an advertisement for CrossFit. Sorry...
