Why ReWild Your Fitness

Why do we need to ReWild our Fitness?

I believe it is summed up beautifully here

"It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable"

That ancient truth rings louder than ever—because today, our strength and beauty are being eroded.

Eroded by softness.

Eroded by convenience.

We are not respecting the human body, how it should train, live, move and run.

I want to expand on this below, and give you a better way of doing things.

1. The Erosion of Strength and Beauty

Our bodies weren’t designed for softness. Yet week by week, day by day, we swap real challenge for false comfort:

• Softness in our seats and shoes,

• Convenience in machines that do the work for us.

What once felt natural—running, leaping, carrying heavy loads—is now hailed as a specialised sport for the 1%.

My fitness was forged in battle. I had to rely on my body, and my physical fitness to survive. And you know what? It felt fucking incredible. It felt alive. I felt my body tingling with anticipation at the next move. The next sprint. The next rep.

But...

After leaving the Royal Marines, my training changed. I was working in a stale hospital ward as a physio. I would hit some back and bis or chest on my way home. Maintained "the pump". But my body felt soft, unnatural and unengaged. But worse than that...

It didn't feel alive. It didn't feel capable. Little niggles. A loss of responsiveness. This crossed over into how I felt. I felt flat. I felt disconnected. Because physically - I was. There is a beautiful two way loop between our bodies and minds. If we only train our body to showboat, only train it to look a certain way. Train it to move slowly and rigidly on fixed machines in a comfortable gym environment. Then it crosses over to how we move. How we think, and how we feel.

I ask you now: Is that how you want to move, think, and feel? Slow, rigid and never changing false comfort?
If yes, cool - stop reading and crack on. If not - then you have found the right page.

2. The knock on...

Depression and chronic illness are at all-time highs. Injury rates climb as we ignore the body’s call for varied, unpredictable movement. Meanwhile, “functional fitness” often means fixed, stale patterns in air-conditioned boxes—hardly the wild, adaptive stressors that our body evolved to deal with. I often use my dog as an example of this...

I have a four year old Border Collie - she is an incredible animal and is the definition of natural fitness. Fluid, controlled and precise in every ounce of movement.

But, here is the thing... She needs to run. She needs to be challenged. She needs to be given a physical purpose to go after. If I don't provide those things for her, she turns into a snarling beast. Kicks off at anyone who walks past, grumps around the house, rips the garden up.

Now, we are not that much different.

If she doesn't get stimulus in the form of completing the tasks and behaving in the way that she has evolved to do, she turns into a bellend and isn't very happy.

We are the same.

So, when we do not treat our body in the way that it has evolved to move, to train, to lift, carry, sprint and throw...

We should not be surprised when it fights back. When our back constantly niggles. When we feel stiff. When we don't enjoy our training anymore. When we start to feel fragile. When we are constantly tired. Sore.

You can’t have your cake and eat it. If you want the strength, endurance, and grit you’re capable of, you have to embrace the discomfort and variety our bodies crave. To train it in a way that it has evolved to move.

3. The Body Evolved for More

FUCK - you go to a native tribe, the Tahramura and they can run 50 miles in sandals across a desert with a mouthful of water.

Because this is what the body has evolved to do.

We are taking this away from ourselves.

By training with fixed stale movements.

By chasing comfort over discomfort, when really what our body is crying out for is:

• Endurance in natural terrain

• Variable loads and surfaces

• High-intensity bursts interspersed with recovery

We’ve trained all of that right out of ourselves, yet this is what the body has evolved to do.

4. Where do we go from here?

Stop being scared of what we can really do when we start to rewild our body and mind.

We need to reset our expectations. We need to break out the staleness of the gym bro split, and go on a mission.

Go on a quest to reclaim what is rightly ours.

To reclaim our real human capability. To start training with passion and vigour again. To rebuild the real strength and fitness that allows us to stick some kit on our back, and run 50 miles across rolling hills, or up peaks or beautiful coastal trails.

To have the capacity and capability to camp under the stars and sip whisky with friends. With like minded men and women bonded through shared hardship.

This blog is my first one. It's purpose is to invite you to change how you view what you are capable of.

If it inspired you, and lit something inside, then maybe what we do inside Commando Conditioned Fitness is right for you.

Ready to reclaim your human capability?

Then check out The EverWild System here: For men who deserve more than average.

We are fighting back against the softness and staleness of the modern fitness industry. Join me.