Wildfitness aims to turn participants into lean, mean, fighting machines with the help of kettle bells, boxing and barefoot running.
Conde Nast Traveller May 08
We’re hunter-gatherers, evolved for wide open spaces and small tribal groups… [Wildfitness] aims to recreate the environment from which we have evolved on both a physical and social level, encouraging clients to exercise outside.
Harper’s Bazaar Jan 08
Fun, exhausting, exhilarating. If you want to get properly fit, head for Kenya - one of its most beautiful beaches is home to Wildfitness.
Tatler Oct 07
Nine days got rid of so much tension I felt more chilled than I had done in months. I'd certainly go back, and for longer.
Body & Soul Escapes - Caroline Sylge April 07
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An imaginative programme of outdoor activities, from swimming across creeks to jogging through eucalyptus forest. It’s not a problem if the last time you did this kind of exercise was in the school gym when you were 15 because you’re encouraged to go at your own pace and stop whenever you need to.
Condé Nast Traveller March 07
My muscles ached – not so much from the running and sit-ups and swimming, but from the laughter that accompanied every challenge we were given.
The Bazaar Spa Guide Feb 07
If you’ve ever longed for the grace, agility, and speed of a jungle panther, there’s probably no better place on earth for you to acquire it than in Watamu, Kenya, the base of the Wildfitness program.
MSN Travel Feb 07
Action-packed days that will leave you tired but exhilarated.
In Style Feb 07
Wildfitness has a holistic holiday training programme that will transform you from fitness zero to super-fit hero.
Grazia Jan 07
The perfect way to start getting in shape, Wildfitness combines intense training with a holiday on the stunning Kenyan coast. It’ll leave you de-stressed and on a serious high.
Glamour Nov 06
The course is based on getting to grips with your inner hunter-gatherer…It makes you realise that reducing the influences of 21st-century fitness techniques and diet on your lifestyle can better equip you for today’s urban living. After this, you’ll never look at a dumbbell the same way.
Esquire Sept 06
The guiding principle is that the holidays should be fun and sociable as well as educational – there are also plenty of opportunities to meet local people.
Hello June 06
You will return with improved posture, strength, stamina and suppleness. And you will be evangelical about the benefits of exercise… It sounds pricey but worth double.
Daily Mail Lifestyle Spring 06
The fitness element of the holidays involves exercising among trees, forest, lakes, rivers and the sea to tone and stretch your body in the ways in which animals do – and the ways in which humans did too, many generations ago.
As you will discover, Wildfitness is not just an experience that will change your perception of fitness holidays, it may well change your life.
sea & i Spring–Summer 06
Not that long go I was a lethargic, caffeine-guzzling wannabe with an office tan. Five days and a Wildfitness course later, and I feel like an Olympic athlete…
Back at home, it would be all too easy to slide into old habits, but Wildfitness gets under your skin. Tara and her team are so evangelical about what they do that you can’t help but experience an epiphany or two.
Natural Health & Beauty April 06
I wanted to find my love of exercise again – and I did!... Exercise sessions are tough but not nightmarish – staff motivate rather than bully you.
Grazia March 06
The Wildfitness staff were great and there were enough of them to ensure everyone could work at their own pace… the exercise was a pleasure – by the end of the holiday I was doing eight-mile runs through beautiful jungle.
Wildfitness got me out of a rut. If I hadn’t done it, I would still be struggling… but now my whole attitude’s changed.
Top Sante Feb 06
With their outdoor setting and high energy approach, these holidays are the complete antidote for modern living… This trip challenges all levels of fitness. You’ll be pushed hard but you work to your own ability so it doesn’t matter how fit you are. It’s a great way to jump-start your road to health if you’ve slacked off on the fitness front.
Health & Fitness Feb 06
Wildfitness uses primal fitness techniques – a spot of lake swimming or hill sprinting – to rediscover your inner panther….At the end of the day, you’re hungry and drained, but on a natural high. Though I didn’t realise at the time, these few days straining muscles I didn’t know I had… were among the happiest of my life.
High Life Jan 06
I was exhausted and yet barely able to contain the feeling that life cheats us of an essential freedom, but that for a few days I had broken out.
Some of what I did that day I should do every day.
Irish Times Health Sept 05
Forget what you think you know about fitness. Wildfitness gets you out into the jungle to train like an animal. While there you’ll swim across creeks, run up dunes, do yoga al fresco… the emphasis is on getting back to basic primal movement patterns.
Metro Nov 05
After seven days on a Wildfitness holiday you find yourself oozing with so much energy that dawn runs miraculously become a pleasure and not a penance. Wildfitness focuses on helping you achieve functional fitness – in other words, building stamina, strength and all-round health to make your everyday life much easier. The trainers carry out postural assessments and develop exercises for you, so that your body grows more resistant to injury.
Harpers Spas Jan 04