michaelaarghh
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Spider veins are veins that are really close to the surface of your skin that have swollen up when that vein has had high pressure. so it’s likely johnssdeere that you always had those veins close to the surface of your skin but they’ve only just ‘swollen’ now and turned into spider veins.
I think they’re just genetic, I don’t think that activities can cause them. (this might be different with varicose veins though?) If anything, I think that being inactive would lead to more because in that case your circulation might not be as good.
I have spider veins as well, little patches of them on my legs that look like bruises, and on my cheeks and eyelids.I don’t bruise that easily at all, Jenn1989, so I don’t know if that’s the culprit of your easy bruising. Have you been tested for an iron deficiency?
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Sorry for the double post; I would add into what M Darling said and say if you’re new to these exercises, most of them can be done with bodyweight. So I’d recommend that before adding weights. e.g, body weight squats, lunges etc.
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My upper body is pretty unbalanced, because I’ve been lazy about practicing things on my left side, so naturally it’s a bit weaker. So I go to the gym and lift weights to try and balance that out a bit.
I love doing circuit training, I personally find it a really efficient way of working out at the gym, and like jivete mentioned, I prefer to do compound exercises rather than isolation. My typical week is pole – power circuit – yoga – power circuit – chest and back – legs – shoulders and arms
and then on the “non-pole days” I really try to fit in some pole practice where I can because I have a performance coming up.I worked out what exercises to do by looking around different fitness and bodybuilding blogs. Also, most gyms will have instructors who are moer than happy to help you out and put together a workout plan
Depending on what day it is, the exercises I do are: clean and press (barbell), hanging knee raises, weighted step ups, pull-ups, incline dumbbell press, incline pec flys, bench press, squats, deadlifts, hamstring curls, weighted lunges, weighted side lunges, dumbbell shoulder press, lateral raises, and then i do a bunch of different cable exercises too 🙂
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I have twitter!! http://www.twitter.com/michaelaarghh 🙂
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I started almost three years ago with absolutely no dance background, strength training, no gymnastics, nothing. I’m still pretty inflexible, although I am working on that.
In my teen years I had a pretty bad shoulder injury, that still irritates me to this day because it hinders my shoulder flexibility. For instance, this move: http://instagram.com/p/nDaARgFSyi/ took me over a year to get, because I needed to build up that flexibility for that bottom arm. For months and months, I could only just hold my arms in that position.It took me over a year to even feel confident holding my weight in a handstand, and now I’m training to do them free-standing.
I’ve had to work hard for every single move, and pole has taught me a lot about patience, and given me a lot of self confidence in what my body can do. -
I’m still struggling to actually invert with my handspring / cartwheel (I get mixed up with the different names) but I am getting closer and closer.
What I’ve found is that it’s a MASSIVE push with that bottom arm, and in the past (when I’ve made no progress) I was relying purely on that top arm. Do you have someone who can spot you and try to lift your hips up as you swoop your leg? I found doing this really showed my body just how massive that push with that bototm arm is. -
We also use trigger finger!!
I’ve been told as well as helping with alignment, it’s to stop from over-gripping with that bottom hand. Like jkpolegirl said, to help push with it and not bear down your weight there.
leyrose – I used to find it really weird and didn’t like it, but now I do it without even noticing! -
My hands are so sweaty, so poling in summer is always an issue for me. I really struggle on brass in high humidity / sweaty conditions, and am sometimes unable to even do a pole sit.
As well as that, the skin on the rest of my body is quite dry, so I will have days in summer where the temps and humidity is high, that my legs stick like glue (and I’ve torn skin in the past) but my hands are still really slippery, regardless of how much metho / dry hands / other hand grips I use.That being said, I find my chrome pole works much better in these conditions. When my chrome pole is warm, I find sticking really easy. When it’s cold, I slip and slide. I also find on my chrome pole using windex and a microfibre cloth is the best cleaner. It gets off any gunk, but it kind of warms the pole up and makes it easier to stick to.
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I’m also planning a routine at the moment! I’ve done it twice before, but I still find it pretty hard.
I usually start by choosing a song (yay you’ve done that too!) and then I make a list of moves I would like to put in it. Depending on how far away the performance is I’ll include moves that I’ve almost got down but still need work. Then I work out basic combos for a couple of the moves. For example, invert -> V -> Crucifix -> handstand.
Then I usually print the lyrics of the music off and like chemgoddess said, look at certain points of the song and know what I want out of the performance. So, for example if the chorus is really fast I might do some spinny stuff there, so I work in the combos around the tempo of the song.
I studied music, but I don’t know much about it and I don’t dance to counts either, I literally just go off what ‘sounds / feels right’.
Then I just practice the combos with the different parts of the song, maybe freestyle bits and work out what feels best. Then practice, practice, practice!!Like chemmy said, you want to include moves that are second nature to you. If I have a couple of months before the performance i will try to include harder moves because I have time to work on them, but otherwise only stick with what you know you can do without thinking.
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When I was learning this, we were taught first to sit on the ground, then hitch up one hip so we were essentially sitting on one butt cheek.
THAT is how much tilt you need on the pole for a pole sit! Like others have said it can be such an illusion, but it’s more about the hip tilt than the leg placement.
In the bottom right picture you look quite tilted so I would say hold that and you’re very ,very close! -
that pigeon pose is definitely more of a backbend than an upper back stretch i think. (although it’s all important and connected)
I also struggle with shoulder and upper back flexibility and have found that the wall stretch that Lina posted has been amazing. I have made so much progress with it, and it can get so deep. -
aww leyrose i thought that would be the case 🙁 i’m really sorry to hear that.
poledanceromance pretty much summed up my thoughts on this too.
pole makes you happy, (and you are crazy good at it, i’m so jealous!) and it’s not okay for anyone to tell you that you can’t do something that makes you that happy. i feel like your boyfriend or girlfriend (or romantic partner…wife, husband etc) is the one person who should be there to support you no matter what, and if they have a problem with something you’re doing they know you better than anyone to have a conversation about it.
serving up ultimatums and demanding your other half to give up something they like doesn’t resolve anything, and if anything, only leads to resentment. i really hope you can talk to him about this, and that it’s not okay to demand things from you, and it’s not okay to be unsupportive. -
why did he make you delete it 🙁
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yep like runemist mentioned, i find doing one handed spins is a LOT of lat work, to make sure you’re properly engaged and not just “hanging out” of that shoulder joint.
so it’s mostly a strength thing.
i haven’t poled on a 45mm, only a 40mm and a 38mm, and yes i definitely think being on a thicker pole would make it harder, but ultimately it comes down to muscle strength. -
yep, like veena said rhomboids would probably be where you would mostly be feeling it. then when you start doing heavy lifting with that hold you will start to feel it in your lats!
as long as you keep shoulders down and back you will be in a proper form 🙂