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.

Why good health is infectious

Our personal health is intrinsically linked to that of the people around us. Looking at our individual health in isolation doesn’t make sense from a common sense, evolutionary or scientific point of view. Unless you live alone in a lighthouse.

The common sense

- When your flat mate has a cold – you’ll probably get it too. [...]

No pain, no gain?

Matt on a Wildfitness course in Crete

It’s cool (and rare unfortunately!) when a journalist “gets it”. So often journalists who cover Wildfitness can’t seem to stay away from the fitness clichés… playing up how tough the training is and focussing on how skinny they got. So it was a nice relief to read the great coverage [...]

Na'vi Fitness

After watching Avatar, I have found the imagined planet of Pandora and the way the Na’vi tribe live on it absolutely inspiring.  People say to me ‘Tara – it’s not actually true you know!’.  But,  I think much of it could be.

The Wildfitness philosophy draws wisdom from how hunter-gatherers / tribal societies live.  Incorporating some [...]

Are Wildfitness’s teachings a fad?

We recently discovered that the Paleo diet (or caveman diet, Stone Age diet, hunter-gatherer diet or whatever else you want to call the approach to eating based on the presumed ancient diet of our ancestors during the Paleolithic era) has been qualified as a “fad diet” by the National Health Service of England and American [...]

Obesity - Who's to blame?

Interesting article in yesterday’s Observer – Who’s to blame for Britain’s obesity epidemic? 

Following the discovery that the world’s heaviest man (70st) is in Britain, the article discusses whether obesity is a self-inflicted condition or if the blame lies elsewhere.  Is obesity a lifestyle choice (like smoking or drinking) rather than an illness?  Is it fair that [...]

Defining the word “wild”

Following our post “What is a Wild Goal?” we had a good question from ‘The Barefoot Sensei’  who asked – “define what you mean by wild?”. Tara’s reponse is below and we thought it worth sharing with everyone to start the debate – what is your definition of wild?

FROM TARA:
“I think everyone has there own personal [...]

What is a Wild Goal?

Redefining fitness

Why do you want to be fit? What’s your motivation? What does “fitness” really mean anyway? Each person that joins a Wildfitness course will have their own aspirations and ideas about fitness. Maybe they want to be more energised or to get bigger muscles, to drop a dress size or to train for a [...]