Most of you that are reading this have seen people doing awesome things out in public, in shopping centres or at work and tagging #PLAYtime or #movementmissions. And it has been amazing to see the responses that we have been getting, not only from people that are in our immediate community, but people that we have never met before. I have been receiving texts, emails and FB messages asking me what this #movementmission thing is and why we are doing it.
So, WHAT IS A MOVEMENT MISSION?
The purpose
To change the mindset of the world (yes, we want to impact the world). We believe that playing is the essence of health. We believe that you do not need to “train” to be healthy.
We train to grow elements of our health or develop a set of skills.
We don’t need to train to be good, healthy and able human beings.
We only need to play and explore our physical and mental capabilities on a daily basis through our imagination.
It’s simple, we as adults have forgotten how amazing the “state of play” feels, so we avoid it, especially in public places. So we created movement missions to help everyone remember what it feels like to play. It’s not about increasing your energy expenditure, it’s not about developing better core strength, it’s not even about being fit. It’s about allowing yourself to let go of your inhibitions and play like no-one is watching, simply because you can.
What can you do to help?
Become a part of the movement missions. Participate, tag and play.
We are surrounded everyday by people that wish they could do more, they wish they had the courage to cartwheel for no reason, climb a tree or just play in a park on their lunch break. When you perform a movement mission, you not only allow yourself to play again and move again, you empower the people around you to have the courage to do the same.
Forget the exercise attitude, get rid of the aesthetics (they will come). Just PLAY because it will make you feel better than you have felt in a long time. If you already play, then help us show the rest of the world that “it’s ok to play”.
THE BELIEF
We believe that play should be the base of all fitness and health, not 30-60 mins of vigorous intensity exercise 2-3 times per week. Because when you play you develop better motor patterns, more relative strength, better co-ordination and a higher level of overall fitness. If you then decide to improve at something in particular (strength, speed, sporting skill, etc.), then you can work on that thing. But the second you stop playing in general and only focus on moving in a particular way, you will lose your ability to do everything else.
PLAY because it feels good, PLAY because it makes others feel good, PLAY to help change the world, PLAY to keep your body able, PLAY BECAUSE YOU CAN!
If you want to become a part of PLAYtime and do your first movement mission, jump on our FB page Denee Lalouette and ask us how.
Enjoy your day & PLAY.
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
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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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