makasha
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I couldn’t agree more with clmeverhart about the physics aspect. I’m sure you’re no stranger to that phenomenon! But in the gym, it’s not like you’re really swinging weights around, out at the edge of your levers (limbs), while in pole, your hands will need to learn to hold much more than 160 pounds…once momentum and distance get ahold of your long body, you are generating a lot more force pulling away from the pole than just your normal weight and how gravity affects it in an up-and-down exercise. You’ll need a lot more strength than someone 5’3″ to hold spins, strength holds, etc. So be patient patient patient! Good luck!
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Don’t give up! Pain is normal, as everyone else has said. One thing to try, that I didn’t see mentioned, is to tilt your hips in your pole sit. If you’re trying to just keep your hips flat and even and hang on by squeezing your legs alone, it is much harder. Raise one hip and lower the other and lean unto it. Whichever one is more comfortable for you, but remember to try both sides. Hope this helps!
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Another older poler here; stretching is my bane. But I have learned to listen to my nutrition counselor (what a battle THAT has been, of course she’s right but my brain is really really stubborn sometimes!). Anyhoo, what sets me back is lack of hydration, and consuming too much sugar. Sugar causes inflammation, and not just in your joints. In all your tissues as well. Makes the muscles not want to lengthen and relax, let me tell you. I can easily tell if my body is or is not well-hydrated just by trying to stretch my hamstrings. So try making sure you’ve had plenty of water to drink as well as Veena’s awesome advice to be really warm, like sweating, before trying to stretch.
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I agree, that amount sounds really high. On the other hand, what kind of venue and what kind of poles will be used? I know that professional rigging and poles is NOT cheap, but if it’s a conference room-type of place and using stage poles that the studio owner owns, then that’s not so much a consideration. $50 is the most I’ve ever paid to perform, but that is for a LARGE audience in a LARGE venue with professional rigging, lighting, optional judges feedback, photography and video, etc. I wish you luck though! Performing can be very empowering.
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Don’t discount your bicycling as a cardio workout in itself! You don’t have to do cardio a whole hour (or more) at a time, bicycling 30 minutes to a class and 30 minutes back home is an hour of cardio! BOOM, cardio checked off the list!
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I should have asked about places in Phoenix before i went there to visit last month…I can tell you Yelp was NO HELP AT ALL. The two places I found through yelp didn’t even have websites (or at the very least, when I Googled the studio names, no websites popped up). We hope to move to Phoenix in the next year or so. So I’ll remember to ask here next time we go to visit.
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Once you’ve been poling for 6 months or more, you’ll be amazed what can happen when you take a week or two off from poling. Now….it is only amazingly good when you keep it to a week or so off every 6 months or so! Don’t get lazy like me and take a month off afyer only 6 weeks back LOL.
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I do it the way you do, left leg hooked, right hand down. That’s because my left outside leg hook is my stronger one, by a big margin. I can barely do a right-leg OLH, but I’m working on improving it. Then I’ll work through jasmine on that side and progress to butterfly and extended BF.
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Yep, I love this little trick. Been using it all winter, and since I usually forget to lotion, even on non-pole days, this really helped me get through winter dry skin season. Wish it worked on my hands, oh how I wish!
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My 1-year anniversary at my studio is this month! I’ll be 41 in July and it is definitely my goal to get my front splits this year, on both sides! I love the muscle definition pole gives me, and I always know there’s a beautiful community at my studio waiting to boost me up when I can’t seem to nail a move or a spin, but I just keep trying because of their encouragement. I’m always glad I went to pole class, even if I was dragging my butt off the couch and trying to talk myself out of it! Can’t wait to get my anniversary t-shirt next weekend 😉
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I am experiencing the same type of thing. Lately I’ve been poling 3 days a week, and I turned 40 this summer. I keep hoping my body is going to “man up” so-to-speak! Last weekend I took a workshop and the instructor said when he’s travelling and teaching up to 6 hours a day, he loads up on magnesium. I had thought potassium was my problem, and another woman in class said she takes both! So I’m going to give that a try for a while and see if it helps.
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And it doesn’t stain your sheets? 😉
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Definitely to get my splits, maybe even oversplits…just enough to look really nice and flat when I’m upside down. There are too many others to list. 😉
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Just reading a warning on Driclor, it says it can discolor metals (such as rings, other jewelry, I’m assuming) but has anyone had a bad experience with their pole metal becoming discolored from using it? Are you using the roll-on variety, and if so, does it take very long to dry? (Warning also says not to touch clothes until it dries completely)
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I’m pretty sure I just saw some events advertised in California as “USPDF Regional qualifier #17” or whatever number. They are/were being hosted by studios. I didn’t attend any of them, but heard about them on Facebook. I wonder if they were being filmed for submission to the main comp?
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Y’all are making me miss Aradia! 😉 It was the first place I ever took pole. Give Heather a big hug from Terri in California! When I went there they didn’t even have levels. ..now I’d probably be around 3 or 4, LOL…that’s what 3 years of on-again-off-again lessons will do to you!
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Well duh, it looks like Veena has the first move right here in a lesson! https://www.studioveena.com/lessons/view/4db57c33-ed9c-494d-9677-18970ac37250
The leg hook side crunch! My instructor in class last night took it to two more variations, the back and the front crunch. 🙂 -
Last night we did a set of core exercises that I had never seen or heard of before.
Standing beside your pole, hook your inside leg in front of the pole, so your knee pit holds the pole and your foot is pointing back and down. The closer your standing leg is to the pole, the tougher the exercises. My standing leg was pretty far away! LOL.
Now get your balance and begin to lean sideways, away from the pole. You can cross your arms at chest level or for more challenge, extend one or both arms overhead. Lean down as low as you can go, then use your obliques to lift yourself back up. Do 8 reps (if you can!)
Now shift your hips to face away from the pole, and your standing foot to face away to the side of the room. You can adjust your hooked leg so it’s lower (the leg you’re hanging onto the pole with…it’s now behind your butt). Now slowly bend down towards the floor and use your back muscles to raise yourself up. you can go to parallel with the floor or higher, if you have the back strength and flexibility. This one made me lose my balance, don’t be afraid to unhook your hooked leg if you get tipsy! But try to do 8 reps.
Finally, shift your hips and standing foot to point at the front corner of the room, towards the pole. Leave your hooked knee on the front side of the pole. Now SLOWLY lower yourself backwards as far as you can, and use your abs to pull yourself back up to standing. Believe it or not, this is easier than the previous variation!
NOW, repeat all three exercises on the opposite side of the pole with your other leg hooked in front!
