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Running from the Heart - a weekend with Chris McDougall

Chris McDougall wrote our favourite book – best-selling ‘Born to Run’. People everywhere are reading it, and it’s making people RUN. And not just run, but run with JOY.
Wildfitness has been into barefoot running from the beginning, but even my own dear mother after years of me talking about it, has only just taken off [...]

My Experience of Running with Kenyan Athletes

Anne-Laure, head Wildfitness coach in Kenya has just been to visit Iten, the small village where elite Kenyan runners, and all sorts of other runners, train. Anne-Laure shares her adventures:

Iten is a very friendly and welcoming small village at 2500m altitude in the West of Kenya where elite Kenyan runners devote their lives to running. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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