Welcome the UFT Challenge RUN10km

It’s a hard slog, running 10km. For most people it’s not even a thought. “I’m not a runner”, “I can’t run 3km let alone 10km”. 

It’s a crazy barrier for us that without a doubt, every single person can pass. With the right attitude and the right program it is 100% possible. That’s why we created RUN 10KM as this years ENDURE IT challenge. 

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It takes will, determination, commitment and a great support group to get you from where you are now to being able to complete a 10km run. So here’s a little insight into how the challenge works and some of the amazing results.

Who know’s, maybe you’ll find some inspiration to go out and become the best runner of you life. 

 

Step 1. Choose your level 

Beginner – Can’t run 3km continuously

Intermediate – Can run 5km

Advanced – Can run 10km comfortably

Start week 1 – The Time Trial

Choose your level, challenge yourself and find a base run to work off. Beginners (1-3km, you choose), Intermediates (5km), Advanced (10km). 

Once you know your level and you have a pace, it’s time to get to work.

Each week, there are varying degrees of running training. 

Day 1 – Long run. Build up your stamina and get used to moving over long distances at an easy pace.

Day 2 – Intervals. Your legs and your lungs need to learn to work hard and fast and experience the stress that a 10km run will put on your body. This is the hard day. This is the mind over matter day. 

Day 3 – (Intermediate and Advanced only) – Sprints. Short & hard work with a nice big rest between sprints. Learn how to run more efficiently, learn where the power comes from, where to place your foot, and build your leg endurance. 

Day 4 – Strength. Your legs need to be strong, durable and well balanced, because they’re going to be carrying you for the 7 weeks and for the full distance run. So do the lunges, the squats, the hops, the calf raises and keep your core strong. Youre body will love you for it.

 

From week 1 on, all of these phenomenal people have been pushing themselves mentally & physically and sharing their journey with each other to help inspire the rest of the group to keep moving forward. 

We’re in week 5 now and it’s our second Time Trial. It’s an opportunity to really see what we’re made of. To see how much we’ve grown and how close we are to our goals. 

If you’re interested in becoming a better runner, make sure you stay up to date with the challenges and see when the next one starts. 

(Christine Harris – Level Beginner. Week 1 time trial 1.5km. Goal = 10km)
“I’ve always wanted to be a runner and to be honest I never thought I could be. I’ve always looked at people that are out for a run and have thought I wish I could do that….
I’ve always really doubted that I could, this challenge however is starting to show me that I can be a runner… I’ve still got a long way to go but I’m starting to see it… I can’t believe that I’ve already gotten to where I am. 
I wish I could run faster, I’m still very slow but I know I’ll slowly get there. 
I’ve already decided that I’m going to do the intermediate program after this challenge”.

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About the Author:

Denee Lalouette
A UFT PLAYground is a place that people of all shapes, sizes and ages learn to develop their movement abilities through an infinite learning and development program. UFT PLAYgrounds have been created to re-inspire our natural ability to move, create, adapt, re-act, connect, have fun and of course PLAY. PLAYgrounds have been developed to allow people to feel and explore their own abilities by utilising a multidimensional, infinite, creative and PLAYful approach to training. We live in a world full of specialists and obsessions. At an ever increasing rate, people are specialising more and more, in their jobs, in their businesses, in their sport and in their training. The result, is a backward step in human evolution. By specialising, we limit ourselves to thinking that 1 particular way of doing things is the right way, or the only way. We promote creativity, not only in movement and training methodologies but in thinking in general. A UFT PLAYground is created to provide the general public with an opportunity to PLAY across multiple styles of training and moving, to be able to progress in the training methods that they become passionate about or that excites them and to be a part of a community that promotes more than just fitness. The “fitness” industry above all others has brought about a need to specialise in order to achieve anything, and majority of what we do for “fitness” is for an aesthetically pleasing reason. We understand that aesthetics are nice and we too love to look and feel good. However a UFT PLAYground is developed to allow people to move better than ever before across a broad range of training methodologies and ideas. Aesthetics, therefore are a result not a goal of that system. We know that “If you train to look good, you will not always enjoy what you do, but if you PLAY a lot, and do the things that you love, you will ending up looking good”. Aesthetics should be a result not a goal. For years now, we have recognised that the best movers on the planet are children. They are flexible, mobile & fit, they have better relative strength than a typical adult (and even most adolescents), they are the best creators and innovators, they learn faster, the adapt better, they interact better with other people, they are more connected to nature and most importantly, they PLAY more than anyone else. As adults, we tend to believe that because we are taller and more experienced in “life”, we are better, and then we get to an age that says we are “too old to PLAY”. As we grow taller (and in a lot of cases rounder), we experience things that inhibit our ability to move, think and not think. We allow our experiences to limit our abilities as humans, whether it be a physical injury, a story that we heard or a youtube video that we watched. We also allow our emotions to control our behaviour because of our past experiences. Maybe it was the feeling of humiliation when we tried something new, regret when we failed or heart break when it was taken away from us. Because of this, we allow our experiences to control our future instead of learning from them and creating our own . This is what UFT PLAYground’s are built on. The understanding that we as humans need to go back to the way things were before our negative experiences took over our subconscious mind and body. A UFT PLAYground gives people the ability to re-learn what they have lost, as well as develop new sets of skills that will allow them to follow any particular passion that they uncover in PLAYtime. When we PLAY, we are simply, exploring. Through exploring we become curious and through curiosity we become obsessed or passionate about a particular thing. This is why in a PLAYground we allow people to PLAY across a broad range of training systems (minimum of 3), Through this system they are able to identify 1, their current limitations and be educated on how to overcome them, and 2, identify their passions and learn to develop, grow and excel in them. UFT PLAYgrounds are also a development centre for up and coming entrepreneurs in the fitness industry. Each PLAYground founder will have been trained and will be continuously trained in UFT’s Trainer Success System. This system allows personal trainers, coaches, teachers, instructors, etc. to continue to develop in their fields of specialty (as they play they will find it) and in the philosophy of PLAYtime. They will also be trained in the business systems of UFT in order to have their own successful and profitable business. See UFT Trainer Success System for more details.

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