#WHYUFT Glen Carter

Say hello to one of the most entertaining guys on FB Glen Carter. And probably one of the most inspiring stories to date.

(And yes, he is pooping) 😂💪

“Hi my names Glen, my story begins way back in ye olde times of 2012. For a few years straight I had a pretty serious drinking and drug problem. Coming from the fine arts scene though, this was more applauded than frowned upon. Y’know that whole ‘broken, yet deeply passionate’ artist persona, yeah that’s what I told myself looking down the end of each bottle of beer.”

“Though I had no one to tell me, ‘Hey, maybe you’re going a bit hard there or Hey Glen my homie dawg yo, maybe you should slow down’. Quite the opposite, my behaviour was both totally tolerated and validated, everyone pretty much did it, thus I had no real cause to change. But during the beginning of 2015, everything in my life would change. My descent began when I started taking much more than I usually did, all to chase that next high. I have this assumption that most harmful addictions start from a lack of positive/healthy resources to otherwise find happiness in. I never exercised or had any other real skills, I knew how to do art, but to be completely honest with you, I’ve always been a weird nut, so it came naturally. There was no need for me to challenge myself to learn it, I just ‘did’ it.”

“So like most people with an addiction I didn’t realise I had a problem, not until I hit a brick wall or rather, the brick wall hit me, with a closed Hulk fist. My life went from this sparkly dream, where nothing ever went wrong to a fall from grace and hitting absolute rock bottom.”

“Without going into too much detail, I had a total mental breakdown, made a fool of myself in public, got in trouble with the Popo and landed in a cell for the night. It was at that point, sitting in that cell that I identified something was very wrong with my life. The worse though was probably still to come, the officers in charge called my parents to pick me up and stated that my only bail condition was to be under their supervision for a few months.”

“The look on my mother’s and father’s eyes when they came to pick me up was of utter devastation, they put so much effort into helping me, always supported me and I returned that devotion with deviance and delinquent behaviour. I was completely broken mentally, emotionally, spiritually and obviously physically given the destructive effects the drugs had on my body. After living on my own for over 4 years, moving back home felt strange. I’d virtually lost contact with all of my old friends from high school, all my former friends from my party days excommunicated themselves from me. Aside from mah mumma and mah puppa, I was pretty much alone to try and pick myself back up again.”

“So my journey back to health began when an old friend of mine, who was a personal trainer at this place called UFT Playgrounds contacted and offered me to have a trial with him. My first session was pretty much how I expected it would go, with me feeling totally ruined. Years of smoking cigarettes, really catch up with you once you have to get a little cardio going. From here on he suggested that I give the Muay Thai classes a go, this partially terrified me since one I was always more of a lover than a fighter and two I reminded myself that Muay Thai was that fighting form that included knees to the face. Not particularly something I wanted to happen to my face. But given my current circumstance, I needed to do something to try and repair my devastated physical health.”

“This is where I met two totally hip friends of mine that would set me back on the right path, Denee and Kane. They pushed me to lengths I never thought I could reach and I’m going to be completely honest, I hated training, if anyone even mentioned a word that remotely sounded like push-up, I’d instantly feel a shiver shoot down my spine. But I kept going anyhow, I kept pushing through each run, each work out, the pad work and the sparring and funny enough after a while I actually began to enjoy it.”

“One year on through excruciating struggles and challenges, I’ve come out in the best physical shape of my life. It isn’t just the exercise that’s reinvigorated my entire being either, remember how I mentioned earlier that I had no real skills? Well now I’ve pretty much become obsessed with learning new skills. So in all, life’s pretty awesome now and if I keep going the way I’m going who knows where I’ll end up in the future, maybe I’ll be a musician, maybe a fighter, maybe I’ll be a treasure hunter, an artist or a writer. Only time will tell, one thing I do know for sure though is that no matter how hard things may seem at the moment, if you have the perseverance, dedication and right support network to help you in your journey, then you can virtually achieve anything you’ve ever dreamed of.”

 
2016-11-03T22:48:46+11:00

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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