I did workout today WITH my son!! Whoohoo!! 🥂It was also at 8:30 am, with my still sleepy arms but it felt great.
@FuzzyNavel I like your idea of planning out my workouts. I had created a chart for the strength training and other moves that I know so that I know what I have been doing and where I am going. It just sounds so much more purposeful the way you explain it and I like the sound of that! I also thought about the strength routine and hope to one day have it memorized enough so I can workout to Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, haha.
@islandgirl001, I am excited for you and the idea of your pole studio! I am already decorating my future studio, or yours, in my head right now. What a wonderful thing to give to yourself!! I am also really glad I asked because these different points of view have given me a different outlook that I couldn't find before. I imagine one day having my pole in the living room when we move back to the US, right in front of my bay window giving off an awesome silhouette to the street. 😉
@Veena, I was excited about the idea of working out in the morning that I had trouble sleeping! I was not able to dance to a real song today (it was actually to the Imagination Movers) but it was a start. Strength training in heels was my mixture today, and I even got some spins and bodywave work in. For my first morning workout, coexisting with my son, I'd say it was pretty stellar! I am actually amazed at how much easier it was that I was not trying to force a slotted time in my day, expecting to shut out the world. He came over to play a couple of times, or tried to hand me blocks, but I shut it down saying "not now. This is momma's exercise time." I let him play a little with the pole when I was finished and I could hear the victory song as I came upstairs. I like the idea of how your poling is just a part of your everyday life. There is a time for certain workouts to have in my alone time, but there is nothing wrong with me working on other things during the times I am not completely alone. I have two only children so my son is just starting to play better alone. I will have to get creative about having him play elsewhere, and not feel guilty about letting him play alone somewhere with me just peeping in.
I think this may be beside the point of what my true question was, or maybe it explains a lot about why I have trouble finding time... But, the truth is that I think the more I try to "hide" what I enjoy doing (for the fear that someone will put me in the position to defend it) the more it awkward it will continue to be. When I moved my pole into the playroom, it helped me to feel like I wasn't such a closet poler, haha. I have explained to my 10 year-old daughter that it is just a method that I use to exercise. I also told her why other people view this sort of thing differently and how hard it is to get that out of their minds. Some people don't care, others think it is cool and want to try it out, while others do not want me to ever talk about it--they even hate the idea that I street pole. My daughter thinks it is fun and likes when I do new things, but she doesn't see it as being very mom-like. I told her "thank you," since I was sick of being in (what I call) my mom box. I showed her how to walk around the pole, turn, half spin, and back hook. She LOVES it! My husband, on the other hand, was a little concerned about what others would think if she said "oh my mommy has a pole and she lets me play on it." Again, I have only had it for about 4 months but it really has caused me to think about what role I want it to play in my life--not just as a mom. I send my mom and grandma new pics of some poses and they are so proud! 😎 It really is a gray area since I know how I thought of it when my friend told me she started. I told her she needed to find a new hobby if she did not want people to relate it to strippers. Now here I am, trying to figure out how I can find more time to workout on MY pole. I am so grateful to all the strippers who created such an exotic, creative, and powerful art form. I now think of my pole as a symbol of my inner empowerment.
It seems have come to the old conclusion of there being a time and place for everything, just like everything else. My son is 2 so he doesn't notice if I am shaking my buns. With my daughter, I am taking more of the whole art form and total body workout approach--bc that is exactly what it is. She is confused by my heels and I told her that her mom is harcore and bad-to-the-bone. As she just laughs, I keep my fingerscrossed she isn't sneaking to try them on, lest we end up with a trip to the ER for a twisted ankle. Now that would be a funny story... Similar to when I had my pole for about 2 weeks, went to the Dr because I had blinding pain and thought I had a gallstone. He asked me where I got the massive rainbow colored bruise on my hip. After many tests and ultrasounds were done, we discovered I had really pulled a muscle in my "sirloin" (as he called it) from holding my breath when I pulled up on the pole. Cute. Very cute.
