It’s the hungry gap of the year in the UK as far as fruit and vegetables are concerned but you can still discover some little gems growing in the veg garden or found locally at your farmers market (click here to find your nearest market if you live in London). At Wildfitness, we love eating [...]
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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 [...] 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 [...] 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) [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...]
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 [...] ??? Goji berries from South America, detox juice fasting, food pyramids, raw food only – how the heck do we know what to eat these days? At Wildfitness our filter is: what would a wild human eat? An agile, natural, instinctive, intelligent, wild human – in touch with nature – in harmony with nature? What do [...] |
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