Primitive Fit is a community health initiative focused on health prevention and wellness from a young age. Through our four pillars, we take a holistic approach to helping children build healthier bodies, minds, and habits for life.

Program Goals

• Promote healthy living
  Help children build healthy habits early to support lifelong health, longevity, and overall well-being, while reducing the risk of chronic disease and mental health challenges later in life.

• Support families
  Provide a safe, structured environment during afterschool hours when children are out of school and parents are still working.

• Strengthen communities
  Give children the knowledge, skills, purpose, and positive connections that help reduce risk factors associated with crime, violence, and reliance on public services.

• Build from the inside out
  Foster respect, accountability, resilience, social connection, physical activity, and learning from elders to help children grow into healthy, contributing members of their communities.

Blue Zones are places around the world where people tend to live longer, healthier lives. Their approach focuses on simple habits like staying active, eating well, building strong relationships, and having a sense of purpose.

Inspired by the blue zone principles, we bring these ideas to life through our program:

• Finding purpose and meaning

• Learning from our elders

• Building strong social connections

• Staying active, healthy, and strong

• Building resilience and adaptability

• Living simply and intentionally

Inspired by Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who’ve Lived the Longest, National Geographic Society, 2008.