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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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] Whenever possible we recommend getting OUTSIDE to exercise – into the fresh air and ideally somewhere with natural surroundings. But it may happen that you’re on a business trip, it really is too cold or un-safe to go outside and train, you don’t have time to find a good place to go nearby, you’re stuck [...] Swimming through ice is one way to get a Wild thrill There are two ways I ( Tara) stay wild in the winter in the city. Sometimes I feel brave and strong and go running in my shorts in the snow and dark, and jump over closed park fences. Sometimes (especially if someone is watching) [...] 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 [...] |
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