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What To Do On Rest Days
What does everyone do on their rest days? Cardio, floor work, spins? Do you stretch more? I’d like to do cardio workouts on/around the pole. Does anyone have a routine or moves?
Thank you! 🙂
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I always have at least one full rest day a week…I don’t workout at all! On active rest days I hula hoop, clean the house, walk or do some easy movement dancing, nothing where I have to lif the my body much lol
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I have one full rest day a week, where I am NOT ALLOWED to do anything on the pole, or any running, or anything. Not even flexibility. Nothing.
Rest days are supposed to be just that: REST. Cardio still works your muscles, and for things like pole, unless you’re doing something that you find very, very easy, then you aren’t really resting.
My other days depend; either I’m doing pole, cardio, or both. Rarely do I like to pair them up on the same day, because I can get very tired, quickly! So, I pole dance four days a week, and run for three days a week. One of those days, they double up. One of the days, I don’t do anything!
For more active rest days, I would recommend something that is light impact, easy, and not too strenuous. Even yoga can be too much, depending on what you’re doing. A walk is good, and hooping, some tidying of the house, something easy! -
I redesigned my workout schedule for Jan. And I don’t really have any complete rest days on my cal… but I work Tuesday-Thursday and my job has me hustling so I put easy things on those days.
Which include: just a few pirouettes in each direction (both kinds). I don’t find these difficult. Just a coordination and muscle memory issue esp on my left. I love when people have great basics. So I’m working on making them super fantasticly kickass by the end of the year. And I work on my toe points, rolling my muscles, and I do a few easier shoulder stretches 🙂
So far I’m just starting out my schedule (2 weeks completed) but I find it’s working for me.
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What’s a rest day? …. just kidding…. sort of
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