Press
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AWARDS & 'PICK OF THE BEST'
WINNER: Tatler Spa Guide Awards 2009
WINNER: Harpers & Queen 'Best Body & Soul Holiday' 2003
Top 10 Fitness Vacations in the World - Sherman's Travel
Top 10 Breaks To Get You Back In Shape - Harper's Bazaar
Top 5 Luxury Bootcamps - Star Magazine 2010
The Perfect 10 Feelgood Holidays - Square Meal 2010
Four of the Best Fitness Breaks - Telegraph 2010
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Tatler Spa Guide 2009 - WINNER
Winner: Best 'Hardcore Turnaround'
"Bursts of lung-busting effort burns fat and builds muscle. But it's the lack of compromise that hooks addicts... One of the hardest but most rewarding weeks of your life".
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Harpers & Queen 2003 - WINNER
Winner: Best Body & Soul Holiday
"This is no hippie-trippy Zen spa, nor is it a mud-spattered, military style boot camp. Tara Wood is the brains (and body) behind the action-adventure getaway continually praised by Harpers and Queen contributors."
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Harper's Bazaar Jan 09
Top 10 breaks to get you back in shape
'Best for Competitive Spirits'
"This approach is all about making us 'caged animal' city dwellers as fighting-fit as our hunter-gatherer ancestors...It all takes place against stunningly beautiful backdrops."
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The Independent Mar 10
"The philosophy behind Wildfitness is to get back to exercise basics. So one of the first things we were taught was to forget everything we've been taught... Months later, I'm still managing to stick to the diet (almost) and am enjoying my workouts instead of dreading them."
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Evening Standard Jan 10
”By day 8 I’m fitter, thinner and very pleased… I decide to extend my nine days to three-and-a-half weeks.”
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Health & Fitness Aug 09
(In-depth article on our philosophy)
"Natural movement is instinctive and builds a smart body, explains Tara Wood, founder of Wildfitness...it transforms you into a "generalist" athlete. You build agility, versatility, grace, nimbleness and efficiency of movement."
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@ Home in Kenya Aug 09
"Under the dynamic tutelage of certified instructors, participants are shown how to re-discover their ‘inner animal’, and to ‘reverse the chronic structural and metabolic problems that plague modern humans’."
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Telegraph TV May 09
"A week may not be a long time to get fit but the course undeniably does what it says. If you are willing to put in the work, you can return from this break feeling stronger, fitter and determined to stay like that in the long run."
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Daily Mail Jan 09
"I'm looking slimmer than I have in years, with lovely, toned arms with bits of muscle that pop up and down like Madonna's. Wildfitness is expensive but, back in London, I continue to reap the rewards with transformed energy levels and an awful lot of pleasing compliments."
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Sunday Telegraph Jan 09
"Our ancestors would have used gravity and body weight rather than extreme effort to squat round the fire, beat off their tribal neighbours and run away from scary animals. Activities were cleverly designed to replicate those movements so we could tone up naturally...I returned lively, pink-cheeked and toned."
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Tatler Spa Guide 08
"People love love Wildfitness...It's bloody hard work but the highs include delicious local food, inspiring instructors and an amazing group spirit. Uplifting, exhilarating and unexpectedly soulful - this will be one of the best weeks of your life."
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London Lite Jul 08
(On London training)
"I’m totally into this whole wild human vibe. It may not be Jackie Collins’s idea of releasing my inner beast but I leave the park feeling wild from the inside out."
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The London Paper Jul 08
(On London training)
"Bin the trainers if you want to run better… Running through the damp grass definitely makes you feel alive, and I’m ready to hunt anything."
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GQ Jun 08
"Sometimes getting away is all you need to break out of a rut. [Wildfitness] takes people back to their roots... Without a bathrobe in sight, this is the alternative spa choice for burnt-out businessmen."
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Observer Jul 08
(On London training)
"Wildfitness was a great opportunity to get outside and do exercise in the sunshine. It was also a chance to really push myself with a coach who never let me give up. By the end I felt great."
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Conde Nast Traveller May 08
"[Wildfitness has] helped some 600 city slickers rediscover their inner caveman. It's camps aim to turn participants into lean, mean, fighting machines with the help of kettle bells, boxing and barefoot running."
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Daily Telegraph May 08
(On London training)
"I leave the park wiped out but suddenly convinced I was, indeed, born to be wild. On that note, I resolve to swap my cramped, stinky gym for a twice-weekly workout in the fresh air."
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Harper's Bazaar Jan 08
(In-depth article on our philosophy)
"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."
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Body & Soul Escapes 07
"Wildfitness got me to remember how good sport made me feel before I hit 14, school sport got competitive and I lost interest... 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."
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The Bazaar Spa Guide Feb 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... I realised that one of the most important gifts I would take away with me from the course was the restoration of my joie de vivre, and a heady sense of liberation."
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Spa Secrets Jan 07
"I really feel that I have changed shape. I felt so invigorated and healthy and spurred on to continue with all the different types of exercise that we did at Wildfitness. It was a fab holiday and I have made friends for life too."
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Natural Health Apr 06
"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."
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Sea & I Spring-Summer 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... Wildfitness is not just an experience that will change your perception of fitness holidays, it may well change your life."
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Irish Times Sep 05
"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."
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The Independent Jun 04
"One moment we would be typical tourists, eating food on a beach or shopping in a Kenyan village, and the next we would be swimming two miles from one side of the nearby creek to the other... This was not a holiday with a beginning and an end, but one that can continue to breathe back home."
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The Herald Jul 04
"The beauty of Wildfitness is that no two days are the same. Guests have a mixture of one-to-one time with the trainers interspersed with group activity, workshops and quiet time. To avoid the midday sun, outdoor sessions are limited to early morning and late afternoon, and although you can opt out of any of the activities, somehow you just don’t want to."
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The Guardian Nov 04
"I've lost a stone. People notice. In the fullness of time, I may discover my inner athlete. I think he's struggling away in there somewhere, bless him, and it was nice to meet him for a week." Read article here
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Sunday Express Mar 03
"During the course I experienced every physical emotion, from tiredness to invigoration, but my energy levels increased dramatically. Perhaps, most vitally, my spirits were lifted... I found a natural way to a natural high. Somehow a holiday on a sun bed will never seem the same again."
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