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Anatomy 101
For a better understanding of both movement and posture is helpful to understand basic anatomy. A simple break down of four body parts three joints (not including the spine) and two general directions for joint movement. Then the essence of sports biomechanics can be...
Should I Be Taking Supplements?
Supplementing is, adding nutrients to your body from outside of your diet. Supplements have become a big part of the fitness Industry. Athletes are looking for an edge on their competitors and supplement companies are willing to pay for promotion of their products....
What Metabolism Means (And How to Fix Yours)
Your metabolism is the rate at which your body burns energy. We can measure the bodies use of energy in calories, like you measure your cars use of petrol in litres per 100 kilometres. You need calories to power your body’s systems, such as digestion and circulation....
Top 5 Googled Diets
A Diet is the food we regularly consume. There are many methodologies when it comes to ones diet. Here are the top 5 googled diets in Australia, with my pros and cons. Intermittent Fasting There many different protocols when it comes to intermittent fasting, but a...
Why we are different
Recently, I attended a local football match at Hepburn Football Club. I’ve been to many Clubs around Australia, but I am new to the Hepburn Football Club. It was a great day! What made it a really great, was the company I found around the ground. Fellow members of the...
The Rotator Cuff
The Rotator Cuff is commonly talked about in sport and exercise. It plays an important role in shoulder function by stabilising the shoulder. Commonly mistaken as a singular muscle in the shoulder that is responsible for rotation of the arm. Well the Rotator Cuff is...
How Long do I Need to be Doing CrossFit?
Recently I was in a No Sweat Intro with a new Family Member of Daylesford CrossFit. As we where going through their goals, weight loss and feeling better, they remarked on how two years of lock downs and unhealthy eating has placed them in sluggish routine and are in...
The 12 Week Plan
How do you approach your training? Are you setting goals? How do you measure progress? How do you know if your are on the right track or just flailing around? When I first started Daylesford CrossFit I never considered an athletes body weight or circumferences as a...
The CrossFit Open
What is the CrossFit Open? The Open debuted in 2011, and has grown to be the largest online fittest competition in the world. The idea: Athletes from around the world would each complete the workouts from the comfort of their own city or town and submit their scores...
HYDRATION
The science behind hydration has been heavily influenced by sports drink companies over the past 40 years. Making health guidelines conflicting and confusing. Growing up and even more so in the army I was taught that I should be consuming a minimum amount of water...
TEAMWORK
In 2006 I was stationed at Puckapunyal Army Barracks near Seymour Victoria at the School of Armour. I was completing my Initial Employment Training (IET's) to be an Armoured Corps Crewman. There was 18 soldiers on the course, all from different backgrounds and walks...
Remembrance Day
1100hrs of the 11th Day of the 11th Month - We will Remember Today is Remembrance Day, a day we stop and pause to remember all those who have passed in service of our country. CrossFit follows a tradition to honour those who have lost their life with a WOD dedicated...
Conflicting Values
Three months ago I posted about the values of Daylesford CrossFit and how I foreseen the values being challenged in the future. My prediction has now played out and I am finding it extremely stressing to choose between two values that I deeply believe in. VALUES 'The...
In Training
"You should be preparing for COVID like you would prepare for a 10km Run." 578 Days has past since we went into our first lockdown to slow the spread of COVID 19. Australia and New Zealand have been very successful in eliminating the spread. Social Distancing, Border...
2 OPTIONS
In March 2020 I faced a fork in the road and choose the wrong path. I chose to allow the circumstances I was placed in to overwhelm me, I choose to be the victim and I aloud my Nutrition and over all health to decline. The first lockdown Victoria went into I drake...
Australias Health
We are in possession of a solution to Australia's greatest health concern. Australia's greatest health concern is, Chronic Disease. Type 2 Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disease (heart disease), Fatty Liver, Kidney Disease and Obesity to name a few. They are all caused by...
Real Food
Eat meats, vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and NO sugar. This is the CrossFit prescription for nutrition. A simple and effective perscription. The problem with simple prescriptions, it offends all. Someone will see thus prescription and say "what...
Top 5 Exercises
One of the reasons the CrossFit program is so effective is that the movements are constantly varied. We use a broad range of movements that have all been picked to mimic or enhance every day life. We like movements that are measurable, that have clear start and finish...
A Fair Go
Last Sunday morning I was taking the opportunity to catch up on the news. A segment came on the with the author and journalist Rick Morton. The segment was about the Aussie Saying, "A Fair Go". Rick defined the saying as "That if you have a shot at something, then all...
Learning from 9/11
20 years ago today, like many others around the world, I watched the twin towers in New York city collapse killing thousands of people. I was only thirteen years of age, but some how new my life's trajectory had changed. I served in America's ultimate over reach...
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