VesperRose started this discussion ·
Hi Everyone, I am starting to teach my first round of pole fitness classes and I am looking for recommendations for what to include. Do you think it should be more routine based or boot camp style based (like back hook to 10 push ups). Suggestions and recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your help.
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Personally, as a beginner I wouldn't like a bootcamp style approach at all. If I wanted that I'd join boot camp rather than a pole class. It just wouldn't be my cup of tea at all. I really like your routine idea though. It's fun and creative. I wish you all the best with your new classes! I hope they're successful for you 😀
I just started teaching myself. Week one with the girls I started them off with a stretch and warmed them up. Then I taught them some basic spins and then put them into a mini routine. Then at the end of class we did a deep stretch. All 5 girls said they could barely walk the next day! The next week, more spins, sit on the pole review all moves add too routine. And so forth. So far so good. Good luck.
Thanks for the comments so far, so keep it more like a regular pole class that I would teach but incorporate a more routine focus?
I think it really just depends on who your teaching. Out of the girls I have, I have one that wants to learn the "sexy" side just to put a little something together for hubby. The rest want to focus more on strength building.
Solya ·
I teach pole at my uni pole club and this is how we structure classes: - a short warm-up with stretching and a bit of cardio - half an hour on the pole - half an hour floorwork - short cooldown In the floorwork bit it's pretty much bootcamp style 🙂 We do press ups, planks, crunches, leg raises and all. I try to focus on the muscles that are useful for poling, like arms and abs. I also make a point of stretching people, felxibility makes pole work so much prettier! Sometimes I pair them up to do resistance stretching into side splits, it's the most effective way of stretching. In the pole bit we just focus on learning moves. We start with spins, then moves from sitting, then moves from inverting, depends on how people progress. We don't pole dance as such, so no routines, but I guess it would be nice for you to include a routine in your classes depending on the difficulty level you teach. Maybe at the end you could do a compulsory 2-3 minute freestyle dance just to practise how to use tricks in a routine.
amelie ·
hi girls 🥂 i m a new teacher too. here is the structure of my class: warm up with streching and cardio. the rest of the hour teaching new moves like spins, transitions around the pole and floor work. 5 mins before the class end, a mini routine with all the new moves and after that a cool down. after 4 or 5 lessons a make a mini choreography incorporating many of the moves from the past lessons. at the first class i teach girls the basics, like differnt types of walking around the pole, some pirouetes, some basic spins like fireman and some transitions like bodywave.
I just started teaching myself. Week one with the girls I started them off with a stretch and warmed them up. Then I taught them some basic spins and then put them into a mini routine. Then at the end of class we did a deep stretch. All 5 girls said they could barely walk the next day! The next week, more spins, sit on the pole review all moves add too routine. And so forth. So far so good. Good luck. thats how it is at Xpose. Each level has a degree of difficulty. so they may use the same music for the week but each levels routine and what they learn are different.
I've been teaching about a year and I usually start with a quick warm up and stretch. Next I do the walk and the crawl, and then I move on to basic spins like fireman variations, front hook,back hook, and chair. Then I do some strengthening exercises like pole push ups and pull ups, and oblique and ab work by having them hook one leg as high as they can on the pole and slowly bending back or sideway. Lastly, I have everyone TRY to climb the pole a few times for strength. I keep a notebook with my "syllabus" in it which helped a lot when I was first making it up too! good luck!
