Don’t think “normal” clothes. Think castwear.
There is a hidden cost in not having additional clothes categories where we have Activewear. Let's rectify that.
The Quality vs. Impact Dilemma for Sustainable Brands (and their customers)
How should small sustainably produced makers and brands (and their customers) approach scaling up production?
Do you need a chair to sit on the floor?
Yes it seems silly. No, it might not be. Read on and tell us if you agree!
Stimuli to get across domains and the strategies to get them
As we’ve explored in previous posts, our bodies require specific stimuli to stay healthy, similar to the ones our early Homo Sapiens ancestors experienced through…
Principles for a Foresighted Lifestyle: the Environmental & Mental domains
What are the target stimuli to achieve? Apart from the lack of pollution of all kind of course, here are other stimuli that were part…
Principles for a Foresighted Lifestyle: the Nutritional Domain
What are the target stimuli to achieve? The nutritional stimuli that have shaped our biology can be summarised as: Omnivorous Diet Early Homo sapiens were…
Principles for a Foresighted Lifestyle: the Physical Domain
First, what are the target stimuli to achieve? We know we need to give our bodies stimuli so they stay healthy and strong. What are…
WHO Guidelines on Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour
The WHO guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behavior align perfectly with those recommended for a foresighted lifestyle!
Our societies & norms are also the results of our instincts
In our previous discussions, we’ve explored how our natural instincts and modern social norms work against our health. Now, let’s step back and look at…
Breaking Free: How Social Norms Limit Our Health and Movement Potential
Our current social norms reinforces the impact of our misguided instincts. We really are up against both as significant obstacles to stay fit and heal…
Our Natural Instincts are a Major Obstacle to Health & Fitness
Our natural instincts still operate as if we lived in a hostile world of calorie scarcity and (forced) movement abundance. And it's having dramatic im…
Why Our Bodies Need Specific Stimuli to Stay Healthy
Our bodies evolved to require these stimuli to function optimally. When we don't provide our bodies with these necessary inputs, our health suffers.
The lifestyle & environment of the early Homo Sapiens shaped our anatomy and instincts
Human bodies were shaped to perform the tasks of a very specific lifestyle in a very specific environment. Not for different lifestyles or environment…
The mechanics of evolution: the link between natural selection & health
Our bodies have evolved for a single purpose: reproduce. While we don't need to retrace the full story of human evolution, understanding its fundament…
Running My First 50k Ultra in Barefoot Sandals: Embracing the Blue Mountains Challenge
When I signed up for the 50k race at Ultra Trail Australia in the Blue Mountains, I was excited to take on a new challenge.…
Ohne Project: Another Fresh Take on Barefoot Sneakers
Another new entrant in the Barefoot Sneakers category comes from Spain. Ohne Project recently funded its Kickstarter over 300% and we understand why: these sneakers…
Into the Future: The Mukishoes Journey of Sustainable Barefoot Shoes
Into the Future: The Mukishoes Journey of Sustainable Barefoot Shoes
Your reliable guide to minimalist / barefoot school shoes in Australia
Are you searching for minimalist / barefoot shoes options that match your school’s shoe requirements? We detail the models available in Australia an…
Complete guide to the best Barefoot Shoes in Australia: all you need to know & where to buy and try
The best barefoot shoes brands and the exhaustive list of where to buy them in Australia. Women, Men & Kids!
Let’s turn Black Friday into Foresighted Friday
Black Friday is a dark day for the planet as we collectively binge-buy things we may not need and throw perfectly good items being replaced…
Mark Wildman’s cool down routine
Mark Wildman’s Youtube channel is a goldmine of fantastic advice on all things strength and mobility. His tutorials for Kettlebell and Club work are some…
Mindset shift: consciously seek and relish physical efforts
Our bodies have evolved in an energy-scarce environment and our instinct and physiology are geared towards conserving as much energy as possible, which make us…
Become invulnerable to social awkwardness
We’re social animals whose instincts value immensely social recognition. Being rejected from your nomadic hunter-gatherer group in the past essentially meant death, so evolution selected…
Movnat®: the perfect fitness practice when you have kids?
When you have kids, your life changes in many ways, some universal and some specific to your family and lifestyle. Among the changes that seem…
Why is Movnat® one of the best training methods to develop Mental Toughness?
Mental Toughness (MT), defined in detail here, is one of the main benefits of training within the Foresighted Fitness System because the Movnat Method is…
Developing Mental Toughness
Mental Toughness is very powerful, as illustrated by its central place in Special Operations Forces (SpecOps) training, but is often misunderstood for persistence, which is…
The Mental Benefits you get from Natural Movement
Mental capabilities you can use in your life By adopting a more Foresighted lifestyle, you will become more resourceful, results-driven, tough, adaptable, resilient, efficient, innovative,…
A short primer on Movnat®, its benefits & advantages as a fitness practice
What is Movnat? Movnat is a fitness training method and physical education system that was developed over 12 years ago by Erwan Le Corre and…
A foresighted lifestyle : taking advantage of progress while accounting for our human nature
Since the human body requires many of the stimuli it naturally got through the hunter-gatherer lifestyle of our early Homo Sapiens ancestors to simply stay…
Our modern lifestyle: the victory of our natural instincts over our biological needs
Our current modern lifestyle is making us sick That our current modern lifestyle is making us sick is becoming less and less debated. The only…
Our specie, Homo Sapiens, appeared around 300.000 ago. What are the implications for our health today?
Evolution is a game of reproduction, which is in turn a game of health Every single human being on the planet today belongs to the…
Is “natural” always beneficial for our health?
What is natural for us, as Homo Sapiens? And is everything natural automatically beneficial for our health? These two questions are key to adjusting our…
Reframe your definition of training: you’ll train more and more effectively
How do you define fitness training? This is a question worth asking yourself as it is almost certainly limiting the total volume (and the quality)…
How to prepare and train for an OCR with the Movnat® method?
If you’re planning (or envisioning) to run an obstacle course race in the near future, you have to decide on a preparation plan. There are…
Add intensity to your physical activity with contextual visualization
One crucial aspect of maximizing training performance is to maximize the Volume and Intensity of your workout (without compromising recovery). In plain English, you should…
Know the incredible value of training in non-fitness environments
Training or working out is generally seen as an activity that should be done in a gym, at an outdoor fitness station or class, or…
Don’t train for specific movements, train for broad physical capabilities
Most people have training goals in the form of: achieve my first pull-up or reach 10 reps of perfect form pull-ups achieve my first muscle…
Daily physical activities of the evolutionary lifestyle
If we are to try and get our bodies some of the physical stimuli they had through an evolutionary lifestyle, then we need to understand…
Training many times in small amount of time throughout the day is as beneficial as a 1h workout
One of the most limiting beliefs for most people is that they need to do a 1h workout session to get significant fitness results, and…
Get more physical activity with Simultaneous Training
Similar to Opportunistic Training, Simultaneous Training (ST) is a training type that doesn’t require dedicated training time in your schedule, since you do it while doing other…
Train more with Opportunistic Training
Opportunistic Training (OT) is the training type that is closest to your typical “gym workout time” and refers to those occasions where you do have time…