Get outside and active with your family

05/23/22 • 24 min

What’s outside your backdoor?

This week we talk to Georgie from Go Wild Go West who are intent on bringing adventure to everyday family life.
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Especially with household budgets being squeezed right now, through my chat with Georgie we explore ways to make your local adventures more exciting, more interesting and... it’s all for free. No expensive car parks, no membership fees, we talk about home adventures, how to keep your kids motivated for going for a walk and, well poo. Yes, we talk about poo.

We talk about:

Ideas for how to adventure on a shoe string
How to go on an adventure with a reluctant child
Having fun with sticks
Being brave and being prepared for your walks
Flip a coin adventures
Night time adventures, watching sunset, enjoying sunrises
Dissecting poo...

About our friends at Whereabouts

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About Go Wild Go West

Shut your laptop, turn your phone on to silent, don’t even think about starting those chores, they can definitely wait!

Juggling kids, home, work, school, in-laws, dogs and everything else can be, well, a little repetitive and relentless. There’s something extremely liberating about just saying ‘stuff it, we’re off!’

At GoWildGoWest they’re intent on bringing adventure to everyday family life. We make sure there’s time to get outdoors and have some fun every week, whenever and wherever that may take us.

To find out more about GoWildGoWest visit their website here

Outside and Active Podcast

Welcome to the Outside & Active podcast where we aim to inspire you to lead a healthy active lifestyle outside with interviews from guests such as Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Dame Kelly Holmes, Ben Fogle, Kadeena Cox OBE, Julia Bradbury, Sean Conway, Paula Radcliffe MBE, Anna McNuff & Jamie McDonald.

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What’s outside your backdoor?

We talk about:

Ideas for how to adventure on a shoe string
How to go on an adventure with a reluctant child
Having fun with sticks
Being brave and being prepared for your walks
Flip a coin adventures
Night time adventures, watching sunset, enjoying sunrises
Dissecting poo...

About our friends at Whereabouts

About Go Wild Go West

Shut your laptop, turn your phone on to silent, don’t even think about starting those chores, they can definitely wait!

At GoWildGoWest they’re intent on bringing adventure to everyday family life. We make sure there’s time to get outdoors and have some fun every week, whenever and wherever that may take us.

To find out more about GoWildGoWest visit their website here

Outside and Active Podcast

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Previous Episode

Ben Fogle – The Outdoors is part of me

Podcast with Ben Fogle

You don’t realise what you have until you don’t have it anymore.

It took being locked indoors for lots of us to realise the value of grass, trees, forests, rivers and lakes! The outdoors has been such an important part of Ben’s life and personal development. The outdoors is part of him.

Isn’t it weird that we have to differentiate between being “indoors” vs “outdoors”? Ben talks about the outdoors being the niche or the unusual. Maybe we’re seeing a shift as more people realise that the outdoors is an amazing place. It’s not just for long beards, expensive walking shoes and goretex jackets.

New Lives in the Wild

We talk about many things in our podcast about the great outdoors including some of Ben’s experiences with the inspiring people he’s met whilst filming New Lives in the Wild (catch up on demand here) with people figuring out how to lead a life that suits them. It’s not longer about trying to smash a square peg into a round hole and measurements of “success” are changing from high paid, high-flying jobs to, well simply happiness. Through some of the "stars" of the show, we also talk about diversity in the outdoors and opening the opportunities to a wider circle of outdoor enthusiasts, something Ben is incredibly passionate about.

Are you conforming to expectations to society or are you moving to your own beat? It’s very easy to become the sheep, but if you’re brave enough, a common thread through New Lives in the Wild series, you can achieve what you set out to do.

We also talk to Ben about:

Rowing the Atlantic
Cold water emersion and swimming to Alcatraz
That moment when he ran shirtless in the snow
Embracing the cold with cold water swimming, swimming to Alcatraz, that moment when he ran shirtless in the snow (bareskin running) as well as a little about the Wim Hoff method
Being Patron of the Wilderness for the United Nations.
How to adapt your adventures with children

We loved chatting to Ben. What did you think of the episode? What was your favourite bit?

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Next Episode

Get into climbing with Steve McClure

Have you been inspired by lots of the blockbuster style movies from the Dawn Wall to Touching the Void or even 14 Peaks on Netflix about climbing?

There's no doubt that climbing is a growing sport. Just a few decades ago, it was primarily the domain of mountaineers and hardcore adventurers. But today, climbing gyms can be found in cities across the globe, and the sport has been featured prominently in films and TV shows.

Steve McClure

On this week’s episode of the Outside & Active podcast we talk to climbing legend Steve McClure.

We start off talking about the way we travel, thinking about the footprint we leave behind on the environment especially in pursuit of time outdoors.

The “big trip abroad” was the main event. It was the big-ticket adventure ticket but the last few years have taught us that we can adventure so much closer to home and we talk about that with Steve in the latest episode of the Outside & Active podcast.

The UK is an inspiring place for adventure so if you need that “hit” there’s lots to explore.

Bringing climbing into the mix, we talk to Steve about:

How he started with rock climbing
How to get into climbing and bouldering
Being safe when climbing
How to get stronger for climbing and bouldering
How to identify where you could improve with your climbing
Introducing kids to climbing
Been climbing for a few years? Hear Steve’s top tips.

We also find out when Steve felt most alive out climbing!

If you’re interested in trying climbing or bouldering for the first time, check out the British Mountaineering Council website https://www.thebmc.co.uk/

Find out more about Climbing Legend Steve McClure

Steve McClure is one of the best rock-climbers in the world, having climbed the hardest sport route in the UK at 9b, numerous new routes at the grade of 9a and onsighted many at 8b+. However, despite being better known for his sport climbing achievements, you might also find him off on an adventure traditional climbing in Pembroke, multi-pitching in Morocco, or sleeping on a portaledge on a 1000m wall in Greenland. Having climbed for over 45 years, Steve has seen the sport change and grow, but also kept up with the pace, and now, even at 50, he remains one of the UK’s top performers.

https://steve-mcclure.com/

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Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SteveMcClureClimber

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