Haloanne
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Don Curry, I’m so jealous! You will be kicking yourself later if you don’t do this now. It’s also a chance to create a memory of this stage of your pregnancy and your pole journey together 🙂 He takes awesome pictures and edits them beautifully, so I’m sure that lack of a tan or extensions is really not an issue. Who would expect you to have those anyway? Also the moves don’t have to be that complicated to get a beautiful picture, but I’m sure you know this anyway 🙂 As long as you are comfortable, it’ll shine through from the pictures. Can’t wait to see them!
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I have a Rumble Roller! The blue travel size is nice and portable, but the larger one would be nice for home use. My boyfriend has the harder black one, I don’t recommend it… Way too painful! Personally, I have no need to maximize the agony. It’s a bit more costly but has been extremely durable. I do recommend it, and the texturing makes it more effective in certain areas.
The most cost-effective solution so far has been a plastic plumbing pipe. 7 years and going, it cost 10 euro 😀
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I wanna, but I have no pole! 🙁 Can I submit with some other aerial sit? 😀
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Awesome tips from Tropicalpole. Undercover FBI agent trying to seduce a mob boss!! 😀 best ever, I’m definitely using this!
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You’ll do great! The strength will build up quickly, you’ll be a lyra pro in no time! 🙂
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Middle splits and straddles. Never even been close to the ground (or pancake), these have always been a struggle. I think part of it has to do with hip structure, I suspect I have deep hip sockets which prevents certain movements completely. Always had a pretty flexible back though, so that’s nice.
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In my opinion, lyra requires much more strength than pole to even get started, since you basically have do a pull-up each time you climb up. It also builds upper body strength really fast, but doesn’t do much for your legs. A high-ish level of lower body flexibility is required for some tricks, and also pain tolerance (especially at the back or the knees once you get to 1-leg gemini hangs). Lyra is really cool though and a different pace from the pole, I like it a lot 🙂 I’m lucky to have a lyra of my own but I can only use it outdoors at the moment.
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They’re awesome too and have really good grip! I have one, but sadly it’s a non-spinning one. These are also the poles that my studio uses 🙂
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Olga Koda is awesome as well!
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I’m sorry, but what is the fish flop roll? 😀
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In all honesty, yoga is not the best approach if your goal is to build muscle. If you’re a total beginner strength-wise and really want to do yoga, I would recommend ashtanga, but if you have a baseline in strength and/or just want to build muscle, your time is better spent doing some form of resistance training. Yoga can be a great workout for sure (and possibly even more importantly a form of meditation in motion), but using only bodyweight resistance on the floor makes it difficult to sufficiently strengthen the posterior chain muscles of the body (responsible for pulling and hip extending motions). Ashtanga is quite dynamic, but many other yoga forms focus on static holds only, which are not the best way to build muscle. Also once you achieve a certain level of strength, you have to get really creative in order to strengthen the legs using only bodyweight. In my opinion yoga doesn’t have that kind of variety for the lower body.
Of course you could do yoga and supplement it with some additional and well planned strength training, doing upper body pulling movements and hip thrusts and hip extensions for the lower body. In my opinion those are very much lacking in all forms of yoga. This would be a good, nicely balanced approach that in time will build a strong, toned and flexy body 🙂
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Awesome, thank you all! Keep ’em coming 🙂
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I’m interested too! I like Cleo’s RLA, but is the Fit and Bendy DVD any good? Do you recommend Alethea’s DVD?
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Excellent tips here so far. I also recommend trying the cup grip, it was a major breakthrough for me!
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I know this as the illusionist also.
Here it is with hands overhead: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=623387524410791