Are you that person
who is training from home and training yourself, just from a few videos you have watched no YouTube? Or are you just stuck in the midst of training for a specific sport that you were forced into? Do you hate what you do in training?
If so, it’s not for you!
There is only one dumb way to train, and that is if you hate the training and feel it is like a chore. Every training method has its own benefits and each one may have different end goals, but if you love what you do and it actually gets the results that you want, then it is the perfect way to train!
People train CrossFit, bodybuilding, strongman, hypertrophy, running, sports, swimming, Muay Thai and the lists can go on into the likes of rock climbing and more. So do something you love to do, otherwise it is going to be boring, you are going to start to hate it and then you are going to stop, because people do not do the things they hate! Go out, try new things and find something that is active and that you love, you will meet new people and make friends and not only that but feel great about yourself!
Find what you enjoy doing
I lied when I said that there is only one dumb way to train, I didn’t mention the fact that you should train in as many methods as you can, mix it up and play around with different movements. Don’t get bored with training; don’t get stuck in a plateau or a rut as this can be worst than doing something you hate. If you love one thing, then find a training method that might actually make the sport you love even better and easier as you get soaring results!
Some great examples is adding in yoga to your daily training to boost your flexibility and maybe some core training or gymnastics to boost your stability, balance and all over body strength.
The next thing to do is train with people you like, find people that you like, friends, family and acquaintances and train with them. We are very social and interactive people, so training with people that are fun will just make that workout just that bit more fun and will even increase some competition to speed up your results. This will increase your likelihood of getting the results that you want, as you are having fun, you wont stop any time soon and you have people who are making you accountable in the people you train with!!
Now that you are accountable, you have found something you love and you are getting great results, you have started along a great lifestyle of fitness. However, there is one thing that people tend to do after all this, as they want to train more and more, and get better. They overtrain!! You get injured and the programming is not great, so that is when you want to find an amazing coach or trainer that you can help you with being awesome and to continue to train in the methodology that you love!!
dumb way to train?
So is there a dumb way to train? Yes, there is definitely a dumb way to train, but it is only dumb if you hate the training and therefore not getting the results you want. You are training with people that you don’t like or not training with people at all and you aren’t training in different methods to support the training you do currently. Most of all, if you have a bad coach or trainer, or do not have one at all!
All are dumb ways to train, so remember, find someone who wants the same thing as you and has similar goals, train in what you love, move and try different methods and find a coach or trainer that is awesome!!!
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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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