One thing we aim to do on our courses is to help Wild Ones assess the fitness and diet fads out there and arrive at a few simple truths about healthy human eating. There has been lots of debate about the pros and cons of raw-food only diets and of cooking, so here are our [...]
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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 [...] Biophilia – Love of Living Things Our food, our medicine, our energy, our water and our stuff all come from the earth. But also, we are directly and immediately affected by nature as soon as we come into contact with it. Even your die-hard city slicker will feel better after a walk outdoors with trees [...] 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. [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] Breathing we can just let happen, like a wild human would, but we can also control it (like a super wild person). We can learn how to use our breathing to gain powerful effects on the body: to switch us into a deeply calm state, to bring in more oxygen to our cells and [...] The Freediving Two-Section Breath Up Hopefully you’re convinced of the benefits of breathing techniques (if not read our blog post Born to breath-hold? ), so here’s one to try. This is a technique recommended by Wildfitness Coach, Augusto, who is also a professional free-diving instructor. While it is a technique from free-diving, [...] |
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