ReWild Your Fitness: Trust Your Primal Instinct
How to ReWild your Fitness, your Primal Drive and your Lifestyle
Before I get into how to ReWild your fitness and lifestyle, I am going to define, in its simplest terms - WHAT ReWilding yourself is all about.
I also want to be clear, I am not talking about eating raw liver, staring at the sun for 10 minutes a day, or only using wired broadband because wifi is killing us.
We all know that is a load of shite.
What is it then?
ReWilding is about taking our physicality back to its roots, it is about moving with intention, forging a real connection with our bodies so they can achieve their true strength and beauty. To revel in outrageous feats of endurance and embrace the tests of strength that have shaped the warriors among us.
No wonder your gym workout feels soul-destroying.
No wonder your energy is flat as a pancake even though you train three times a week, grinding out soulless chest presses on fixed-path machines.
Is that what the masterpiece of human evolution was built for?
Was. It. Fuck.
When you respect what the body evolved to do, and train around those principles, you feel fucking alive again.
That is what ReWilding our Fitness is all about.
And, I will tell you it feels fucking amazing.
ReWilding our Lifestyle?
Same deal. We have evolved to think creatively, to pursue inspiring endeavours, we have exploring and conquering bred into our DNA from the likes of Genghis Kahn!
Was this done so we can sit in an office and look at a screen eight hours a day? We all know the answer.
Yet we wonder why so many people's mental health is shot to bits.
Once you've had a taste of ReWilding your lifestyle and fitness, you can't go back.
We don't need to go live in a cave and chop of infidels heads. But we do need to insert some wildness back into our life.
If we are on the same page here, let's crack on...
How to do it?
I want to give you a specific framework you can use. But these are guidelines, not rules.
There are a lot of individual things to take into account here, injury, fitness, equipment, overall capacity...
But, as an overview...
Here is how you want to shape your training each week (in a way fucking everyone can do, 100%)
Strength - Two Pure Strength Sessions. Lifting heavy. Involving carries, lifts, and movements that get the body moving up/down, side to side, and rotationally. This is important if we want joints that stay healthy.
One Bodyweight And core focused session. Focus on creating a mind muscle connection and learning to engage areas at will. Olympic rings are your best bet for this.
One longer steady state cardio session per week. Run, hike, swim.
One hard interval session or circuit. Sprints, crawls and jumps should be included.
One "play" session. Bang out some pull ups, jump a set of steps, chase your kid on their bike, tug of war with your dog.
Not half heartedly, but like you are present and you mean it. Smile.
LIFESTYLE FRAMEWORK
I want to keep this simple. The reason being, most people stop themselves doing this by adding complexity and thinking about what could go wrong, instead of just cracking it. So, see this as rules that can be added to.
Once a month seek a micro adventure. Pack a running vest or overnight bag, get out the house and into nature for 6-24 hours.
Once every 6 months, get out in nature for 48 hours. Wild camp. Build fire. Be self reliant. Disconnect from the world of tech. Reconnect to yourself.
Every day - walk for 10 minutes with intention. Slow down and notice your movement.
Do not work for more than four hours without taking a real proper break.
Enjoy a pursuit of culture every day. Music, good coffee, whisky, cigars. Be present, enjoy.
This month, I am putting together a Micro Adventure Guide, this will be available for free to anyone that joins >>>The EverWild System<<< in June.
Do the above things for three months - I promise you, people will want to know what your secret is.
