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Just Got Back Into Pole Post Partum 9weeks
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Congrats on your bubby!! How exciting! 😀 You must be so glad to be back to poling, even if you do have to do some catch up. It must have been hard to go without pole while you were preggers, although I suppose you probably had other things on your mind 😛
We've just moved in to a new rental house thats having all these continual problems I did NOT know about til we'd already moved, so the landlord is constantly over doing stuff and I keep having to take my pole down so he doesn't see it. Hate it! I just want to be able to leave it up for a while!! Grrrr -
Hey Tali, thanks! Very happy to be back. My teacher has been very flexible w/scheduling too which has helped so much. I was in the pole stdio 13 days before delivery, but for a photo shoot lol. Other than that, I was 26 wk preg. in studio and officiaaly stopped at home at 30 wks. I was still doing inverts and shoulder mounts when I stopped but I was worried my abs would split or the placenta would be abrupted. Playing catch up now for sure though.
Sucks about so problems w, your pad! I still take mine down if my dad comes.
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Hi guys. I'm new to the site but have been following this threat. I'm 8 weeks pregnant and I'm hoping to keep improving on my strength and pole skill as long as I can. I'm hoping I can still build a lot of strength before I have to take it too easy ont he pole, then hopefully maintain the muscle till I can get back on after the baby. Any suggestions from experience on how to continue my pole journey? I'm fairly new, and just now learning how to climb a little, haven't done inversions yet, so I'm thinking focusing on strength and refining what I can already do, maybe progress a little in skill level…and just try to keep my strength up so when I'm ready to lose the baby weight that I still have yet to gain it won't be like totallyl starting from scratch. I'm overweight so I know I can't focus on weight loss, but hopefully focus on strengthening the muscles I need, then with weight loss after the baby my progress in pole will go fast.
I also have the spinning X-Pole. For just a little more than the static I can have the choice of it being a spinner or static. I want to get a second one in a year or two and have them up together in my living room, kepe one spinning and one static then I can have a ton of variety as I get good at this 🙂
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Congrats on your pregnancy! I started a thread while I was pregnant that said poling while pregnant and I tracked progress on it. I still learned new tricks but while being spotted and telling my instructors of my pregnancy. The toughest moves were the jade spilts b/c my belly stuck out so low. I did not do anything that strickly involved abs. No side pole crunches or fan kicks. It was a lil hard each week b/c I gained a pound or two each week so as soon as I got a move,it would wear me out the next week.(35 lbs gained) I also listened to my body and if I didn't feel up to poling one day/week, I didn't. I didn't push it and I didn't try to push my limits. My body compostion changed while pregnant to maintain the baby so I actually lost some strength in my arms even though I was pulling more weight-but getting it back nowhttps://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_wink.gifAnyway, hope you enjoy it and have fun! Good luck on your pregnancy.
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Congrats on your pregnancy! I started a thread while I was pregnant that said poling while pregnant and I tracked progress on it. I still learned new tricks but while being spotted and telling my instructors of my pregnancy. The toughest moves were the jade spilts b/c my belly stuck out so low. I did not do anything that strickly involved abs. No side pole crunches or fan kicks. It was a lil hard each week b/c I gained a pound or two each week so as soon as I got a move,it would wear me out the next week.(35 lbs gained) I also listened to my body and if I didn't feel up to poling one day/week, I didn't. I didn't push it and I didn't try to push my limits. My body compostion changed while pregnant to maintain the baby so I actually lost some strength in my arms even though I was pulling more weight-but getting it back nowhttps://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_wink.gifAnyway, hope you enjoy it and have fun! Good luck on your pregnancy.
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Congrats to all you Pole mama's!!!!!! No other exercise whipped me back into shape like pole dance.https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cheers.gif Be sure you're taking time to focus on the core (abs AND back). After hauling around our baby belly, we tend to have poor posture. I had mid back pain until I got serious about conditioning my core. Feeding and carring baby tend to make us a bit hunchy too. LOL
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this might be a strange question to post here (esp since i'm not even pregnant at all)… but when you say you're returning to pole post partum 10 weeks… is that with natural birth or caesarean?
does one of them have a longer / shorter recovery time and how it will affect your ab strength (presumably with caesarean it will take longer to recover?)
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Thanks Veena. You are a great person to admire doing pole after four babieshttps://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cheers.gif I don't know when you find the time! @eitole, I did not have a cesarean. Also, many people have a natural birth which is where you have it w/ o an epidural or drug intervention. I did have an epidural.I wasn't going to but my contractions were not in my tummy, they were in my hips! It would radiate down and through my hip bones and that hurt terrible. I was 5 cm and gave the go ahead b/c I was trying to push and if I had pushed a baby out at only 5 cm, I would have torn. So I did get it and an hour later, I was dilated enough to push. I am sure a c-section would warrant more time to get back into things. Last week I was sick and I could feel my womb was still sore and I had a sonogram last week too and there is still a thickened myometrium(uterus walls). There would be a lot more tissue that is cut and needs healling w/ a c-section.
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i had two c sections and healing time was 2 months, and still no rigorous exercise for months after that! im very glad i got the bikini cuts so my muscles were not cut! 🙂
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meant to say it up there then got carried away with c section thoughts, lol, CONGRATS!! 🙂
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It must have been really hard after a c-section! Oh my goodness…
Well this week has been tough to keep up w/ goals, but I am doing a good job I think. I have stretched 2x besides working out. 1x pole in studio so far and have one tonight. Had to move my Wed. class b/c/ baby had her 8wk shots. She was super fussy. Gonna hit the gym Sat. and Sun. for a bit.I had to stop and start both stretching sessions to grab baby BUT I resumed! That is what I call success this week and I am really proud of mehttps://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cheers.gif
Would love to hear how Zoraya Judd did after her baby…(I saw a video and I am in awe!) She is my new fave…I have new goals now and I know if she can do it so can I! I love looking up to those who "walked" before us. Hope that makes sense.
Hope you all are acheiving your goals too…
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Great job making and meeting goals! I am usually really bad about that, but I am going to try and be better andtoy are such am inspiration! So lil was due on Thursday but she hadn’t arrived yet…. Still waiting lol
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Thanks ninja! I made my second pole class yesterday and I felt really good about making it! I also slipped in an extra stretch session w/ a DVD for one of the 12 min sesssions that it offers….so I am doing well. I am keeping it tracked or else I'd probably not do as well lol. Anyway, today's goal is to make it to the gym for a little bit. Our other daughter is in sports for the next four weeks on weekends, so even making that demand is gonna be a challenge, especially with the newborn. I usually bring my baby to the gym and I push her in her stroller until she falls asleep. Then I just keep her next to the machine that I am working on at the time, so it is easy. She is right there with me the whole time.
Good luck on your delivery and get plenty of rest and recovery afterwards. Pole will be waiting for you whenever, so just focus on you.
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( meant second pole class for the week)
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Never made it to the gym Sat or Sun. but I was super tired anyway. I caught up on Sunday which was good. Did some walking outside too.
Today went to park and walked for an hour(pushed the baby).
Goals for this week…2x pole classes, 4x stretching, one time gym…(setting it lower so I'll make it-setting acheivable goals is key).
Beach one day too-more for walking than anything else….basically getting outside 4x this week because it will be nice out.
I did great on my stretch goals last week and I made two pole classes. Wahoohttps://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gifhttps://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cheers.gif
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