polergirl
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Well, Ms. Dangerous, you have some of the hottest stripper twirls around!! From your description, I’m doing them right…but boy oh boy they aren’t as sweet as yours. I wouldn’t be averse to a new floorwork video from you, featuring your famous stripper twirls!! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif
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That’s the move, I think, and I feel like I have the mechanics of it but get no range of motion…maybe I just need to do it more. While we’re at it, does this move have an actual name? Or 10 names, being as how it’s pole/floor work? https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif
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Not the clock legs….those are fine. I’m talking about back on floor, legs together, circle from knees in opposite directions, usually followed by a v with legs. Dangerous does them in her stripper claps video, and she is *awesome* at them.
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I started in my late 30s, and one big advantage I’ve noticed over a lot of the younger girls at the studio is that I know my own body better, and I am more fearless because of that body awareness. I trust my body and my physical strength because I have tested it in other ways over many (many, yikes) years!! There are some moves that seem easier for them, but there are a lot of moves they struggle with or don’t want to try at all because they haven’t the body trust that I do. Not all of the younger girls fit into that mold, obviously, but it is something I have noticed.
I say go you, and just be the best, most confident poler you can be! It’ll help you gain strength and flexibility…and it’s way more fun than a lot of forms of exercise, right?
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I have an X-pole and love it. It feels super secure to me, even when I’m doing all sorts of crazy "hmmm, wonder if I could do THIS?" kind of stuff.
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The first one that WOWed me (still does) — caterpillar up the pole.
What WOWs me now that I’ve tried it and can. not. get. it. — the frickin’ frackin’ FLAG. Yarrrrr. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_pirat.gif -
Continue to hold the ball up with hands, and hold your body in V position by engaging the heck out of your core. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif You will have to engage because the ball is in your way, so you can’t just curl up to the point where the weight of your legs holds you, KWIM?
There is a good exercise that involves holding the ball between your ankles and curling your body upward until the ball is over your head, but unless you already have a strong-ish core it’s tough to keep your lower back on the ground until you curl it up, so I don’t recommend that one until you’ve been working your core for a little while.
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I have a journal that is nearly filled with things I know, things I’d like to try, things that go well/flow well with other things, etc. The transitions into/out of pages really are helpful, and I am constantly adding to them as new thoughts pop into my head, or I see things and think "oh heck yeah, that’s cool." I also write down strength-building exercises and variations of such because I find they are great reminders, too.
Last night I couldn’t sleep–when that happens I’ve found that, for whatever reason, I start to come up with pole moves or combos I’d like to try. So I take my pole journal to bed with me every night.
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Here’s a great exercise to work the part of your core that helps hold you up once you’re in the boomerang or inverted V position: lay on the ground and hold one of those big exercise balls directly overhead. Slowly lift your legs toward you in a tucked position, then spread them to a V, tilt your hips, and continue to lift your hips until your feet are by your shoulders (or ears, if you are a lucky long-legged soul, lol).
With your arms up holding the ball, you can’t use your body to swing or use momentum so it has to be your abs, and if you roll up at first in a tuck position your lower back will always retain contact with the floor….until you lift it off. So it’s also a "soft" and safe move to do for your body.
I hope my description makes sense. Can video it if it’d be helpful. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif
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As you are going into a corkscrew, imagine you’re going into some other spin (maybe your RG since you don’t have trouble with it, and it also involves swinging around so your back is to the pole/wrapped around it)–it might help keep you from kicking forward and get that outside leg swinging around instead.
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I’m in marketing for an architectural firm, which works nicely with my graduate degree (building conservation and restoration), and I do a fair bit of freelance writing–articles and essays mostly–all nonfiction. I am creative but only with how to present actual events, if that makes sense. I can’t write fiction to save my life. Last year I edited two textbooks. Normally I love editing, but, errrr, textbooks? Not so much.
Word nerds unite! I was born into this; my mom used to diagram sentences every evening, just for fun. She would pick up a book, search for the most awkward and/or complex sentences, and diagram them. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_thumright.gif
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Forgot to say: also called a skater split
I thought the skater split was done with the whole body behind the pole? i.e., one leg on pole in climbing position, opposite arm holding pole, free arm holding free leg in extended position.
Sometimes it kills me that there are so many names … and so many moves!!! I have a love/hate relationship with the volume of pole stuff that fills my head, lol.
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Runemist, my job is about 90% writing. I am an utter word nerd! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_study.gif
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For bodybuilding the typical minimum time is 48 hours, lots of protein and ample sleep.
I have found a lot of times that working out again takes the residual soreness away.
Me too. Sometimes when I am stiff and sore and walking around like a 90-year-old, it’s all I can do to make myself move…..but when I do I feel soooo much better!
It may help to take it easy-ish and just get everything warm and limber.
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….I have managed to double book myself for Saturday, and that’s not even counting the pole jam. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_sad.gif Argh! I am sad to miss out on meeting all of you!!
Have fun and be sure to post pics and vids so we can all live vicariously, pleeeeeze!!!!
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I finally did the fit test today and did about 1/2 the amount of the people on the show in most things but when it got down to the last ones I was lower. I kept slipping out of my tennis shoes- gotta tighten my laces and make sure the beagle is outside!
If your heel is what’s slipping, be sure to lace using that "extra" hole so that it cups your heel more securely. You might not actually have to tighten the laces.
Go you!!!! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cheers.gif
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I had a heck of a time inverting in shoes at first, because all of a sudden my foot/leg was wayyyyy longer than what my body was registering. My calf was trained to hit the front of the pole as I lifted up, but the danged stiletto would get in the way! Whack…..and DOWN. For me, it was just a matter of ingraining a "new and improved" leg length into my muscle memory, lol. Now it’s no problem. You will do it! You just need to retrain your bod a bit!
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Up cardio (as much to improve my heart and lungs as anything) and increase lifting, and probably lift in a greater variety than what I currently do. Muscle burns calories waaaay more efficiently than fat does, so the more muscle I can build the better off I’ll be. And actually, if I don’t lose any weight I’m totally fine with that. I want to tighten things up, that’s what it boils down to. If I am tighter and weigh the same because it’s compact muscle instead of flibbery fat, then so be it! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif
What needles me about the cardio thing is that I did a triathlon over the summer. My heart and lungs were MACHINES and my recovery time was nil. It was so fantastic. But in that same tri, I hurt my knee, badly, and that put a halt to serious cardio work. It’s amazing how quickly something that took SO MUCH HARD WORK goes pooooof!
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Oh, I told her, and she squealed like a teenaged girl who just met Justin Bieber (sp?). Then she began pumping me for information. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_wink.gif
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What a FAB story! Yay for you and your hubs!!!!! Love it!
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I think that was AWESOME, amy!! It is really difficult for me to rein in my inner competitive perfectionist but pole forces me to do just that. I watch vids from way back when and am so pleased with how far I’ve come and how much my whole self has improved. It’s good for the soul, that pole. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_geek.gif
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Heck, I was glued to a cold SS pole last night two minutes after trying them on! But they look so amazing that I’m willing to work around that. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif
The sweat trap factor sounds like it’ll be super fun, LOL. I am a sweater.
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I thought about that, LOL. Luckily I do most spins with legs off pole….but no dive/side spins in these babies!! I am a little concerned that I’ll get stuck in a trick though!! Guess I will practice what I preach about exit strategies and work it out. I.am.sooooo.excited. !!!!!!!
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Here they are, in all their shiny, dom-wannabe-looking https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gif glory. I can’t WAIT to dance in them!
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Pole pull-ups are another really good one. You can do them in all sorts of configurations depending on which core muscles you’re targeting–tuck up, extended leg, tuck into v legs, side tuck, etc. Don’t push off with your feet. In fact, if you are able, keep your feet completely off the floor when doing a set.
They’re also great for upper body because you are holding your entire weight off the ground.
