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Feeling frustrated and very uncertain about new pole studio
Although I have a pole at home, I’m lazy about using it. I recently tried some classes at a new pole studio and was very dissatisfied … and today walked out having a hissy fit (ok, not cool). I’ve trained at one other pole studio in my home country was as super-happy there; I’m now in Turkey and there are fewer pole classes. I haven’t been doing much pole for the last 3 years and so lost a lot of condition. At my first class the teacher (after less than 10 mins of warm ups) asked me to do an invert and then was having people (some who’d only done 6 classes) going into cross-knee release, Gemini and Scorpio. Without any assessment of my strength she was expecting these things. I could do some, but was afraid of injury as the pole wasn’t warm and I didn’t feel that there had been enough conditioning training (as per the 30 day pole kick off on SV).
Today, after I complained about using wrist sits as a warm up, she put me onto walking around the pole and doing turns onto the pole. I don’t consider this strength and conditioning training. She had said that she’d do a more comprehensive assessment of strength etc before the next lesson.
I’m also a bit concerned that people are put into inverted poses very quickly without people spotting for them to prevent injury. I had gone to another studio some time ago and found that superman was included in the very beginner’s classes – before people had built up strength and flexibility.
Am I being overly sensitive and whiny (I’m 45 and unlike the other girls in the class, I am carrying some extra weight)? Would love to hear your views! Thanks! 🙂
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