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.

3 Top Fitness FAQs

(Jess Reinhold has been a Wildfitness coach for 6 years and is currently working on location in Kenya).

One of the perks of my job is that I get to meet and train a huge variety of people but the same questions seem to always crop up. Because of this I decided to try and tackle [...]

Wild Moving - The Physical Programme

You can start slackrope walking using a guide rope above…

… then when you advance you can balance with no hands! (Colin our coach is showing off here!)

After 10 years of honing the Wildfitness course programme we’re pretty proud that we’ve achieved the perfect balance of activities for a fitness holiday: intense workouts and [...]

Tara's Story - My WF Course in Kenya

Every year Tara Wood, founder of Wildfitness, plays the role of guest and completes a Wildfitness course in its entirety – what better way to know exactly what our guests have to go through?! However this year, because of certain circumstances, she was incredibly nervous at the outset. Her experience turned out to be tougher [...]

Run and Lift Heavy Things

We asked Wild Coach, Gareth Roriston, what key training advice he would give someone wanting to improve their fitness. For Gareth it boils down to just two key things. In his own words, here’s what he has to say…

Run and lift heavy things…

…these are two things that every, truly all-round fit person does.

Even elite specialists [...]

Challenge the Coach

10 dead lifts, 10 overhead swings, 10 thrusters, 10 clean 'n jerks, poor Colin was certainly tested against the King of Kettlebells!

We don’t ask for much from our coaches; they just have to be hard-working, qualified, motivating, fit, knowledgeable, inspirational, experienced, patient, fun, understanding, creative, respected, …….…. AND have a sense of humour [...]

Ten Outdoor Evolutionary Exercises

One of our current Wild Coaches, Colin Holding, recently met with the UK’s Guardian newspaper to discuss the benefits of “evolutionary fitness” and of exercising outdoors. With Colin’s help they gave their readers 10 movements which are perfect for performing outdoors – in the park, your garden, a forest or (if you’re lucky enough) on [...]

The 3 Most Important Things You Can Do This Year

If only I could be, under the sea, climbing a tree, running free under a jungly canapee. But I am not… I am writing twee poetry in Januaree, with coffee and stationaree. Do you know what I mean?

SO, how to help? Here are some tips from the wilds of Watamu coming at you to get [...]

Gareth's Animal Circuit

For some fitness inspiration and a bit of fun for the New Year, we have created a short video of a sequence of movements put together by (and starring!) one of our current Wild Coaches, Gareth Roriston. It was filmed here in Kenya, on the beautiful Watamu beach right outside Baraka House.

Gareth says….

“All these movements [...]

Barefoot Running Shoes - The Options

If you’ve been on a Wildfitness course or been following Wildfitness for a while you will know we are ardent advocates of barefoot running (read our post on why this is here). Given that we’ve been teaching barefoot running on our courses for 4 ½ years now, we at Wildfitness have tested a fair few [...]

Stay wild when travelling for work

Let the work day begin!

Work travel is notorious for messing with your rhythm. Here are some ideas to stay wild while working on the hoof, based around the three parts of our Wild philosophy. Special thanks for many of these tips go to our Wild coach Zoe who used to travel like crazy in [...]