by Dan Williams | Nov 2, 2018 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, CrossFit, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Flexibility, Health, Improving Athletic Performance, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, Nutrition, Programming, Psychology, Weight Loss
The Range of Motion Model of Health sets down the principles for everything we do at Range of Motion. The model resembles a ‘wagon wheel’ with individual spokes. Each spoke is required to keep the wheel circular. Should one spoke fail (even thought the...
by Dan Williams | Oct 26, 2018 | Blogs, Exercise, Health, Psychology, Weight Loss
The ‘enjoyment factor’ can be a major obstacle to starting and maintaining healthy exercise habits. Too often, exercise is perceived as a negative and, although no one doubts the benefits, the barrier to entry is just too great to be overcome. As with any...
by Dan Williams | Oct 12, 2018 | Blogs, CrossFit, Exercise, Health, Programming, Weight Loss
Exercising from home has it’s advantages, but it’s not all upside. There are a raft of challenges that come with exercising from home, so let’s explore them and some solutions to ensure your can benefit from this convenient way of training....
by Dan Williams | Oct 12, 2018 | Blogs, Exercise, Health, Psychology, Weight Loss
Maybe this is you… You get out of breath walking up the stairs. You’re a bit heavier now than you were a few years ago, and you know you’ll be a bit heavier in a few years than you are now. Your knees and back ache. Maybe you’re on medication. You’d like to be...
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...