Wildfitness is a fitness holiday company with the aspiration to help people eat, move and live in harmony with nature. Find practical tips in our Wild Eating, Wild Moving & Wild Living sections, or go to our Wonderations category for more philosophical musings on nature, the wild, our health, the role of science, the meaning of life etc! Enjoy and please let us know what you think.

Wild Moving: The Wild Combo

 
Luke & Drew practise being monkeys

We’ve included “combo” training in our holiday courses since Erwan Le Corre, the founder of MovNat, trained with us out in Watamu during April last year. A combo is a short circuit usually comprising 4-6 different natural movements. It should take between 30 sec - 1.5 minutes to complete one circuit and you then repeat the [...]

Learn to run barefoot with Lee Saxby

Just in case you haven’t seen it already here is a great video featuring Lee Saxby outlining the key skills you need for injury-free barefoot running. Those of you who have met Lee already will know what an awesome running coach he is… those who haven’t can get the chance to meet him below! Obviously [...]

Wild Moving: The Hunter-Gatherer Squat

Those who have been on a Wildfitness course in the past 6 months will know that our new favourite position is what we like to call “The Hunter-Gatherer Squat”. So what is it and why is it so very good?

The common sense

Squatting, the natural way to “sit”, is great for our bodies. It’s just a [...]

Play. It's serious stuff.

 

Exuberant Animal seminar in London

Back in April Wildfitness hosted the first Exuberant Animal seminar in the UK and we got to hang out with one of our gurus, Frank Forencich. We played all day in the park and ended up feeling tired and elated at the end of the day. And sore for about 3 days [...]

Wild Moving - Mirror Run

Mirror Run (Image courtesy of Exuberant Animal)

Here’s a fantastic functional fitness game from Exuberant Animal.  It’s super-easy and you need no equipment – just a willing buddy and plenty of space to run around in. We played it at the Exuberant Animal seminar in London and apparently it was quite a sight to behold: 20 [...]

Running Wild

The press has been going crazy on barefoot running following the publication of research by Harvard professor Daniel Lieberman (watch the video summarising the research here, or read about it in The Times, The Express or Business Week). At last it is out, and now almost undisputed that running shoes hinder running, and that running [...]

The joy of running

Double page spread in today’s UK Times T2 section about running – with the focus being on the mental benefits and the sheer joy of running. Given that, from an evolutionary point of view, running is probably our most fundamental movement pattern after walking, it only makes sense that running is key to human health.

Peta Bee’s article ‘Why pounding the streets really is good [...]

Barefoot takes off

It’s the new year and with it comes the inevitable press and magazine coverage focused on helping advise people who want to shape up and jog off the “festive excess”. Refreshingly though there has been increasing coverage in the UK press on the phenemenon of barefoot running. Off the back of the success of Chris McDougalls’s book Born [...]

Winter Wildness

It’s easy to retreat to the duvet during winter in the city; and often quite sensible.  But there is also a bionic edge to going for a run when it is snowing, or even inhospitably windy,  dark and wet.  I go in shorts, singlet and sometimes bare foot (not advisable on hard ground [...]

Wild Moving: Hanging out

Our primate ancestors spent a lot of time hanging out in trees and swinging through the branches (what fun). There is actually an official term for this type of movement, in which the suspended body swings from one hold to another using only the arms (and momentum rather than muscle strength). It’s called brachiation. You [...]