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I use liquid chalk, I have sweaty hands and it works for me the best. Chalk bars do the same, you have to add them more often and they crumble.
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Yeah, great if some ppl can get rid of it.
(To me it has always been impossible. I have been young and underweight and had it, and I have also trained myself low fat and ate super healthy and had visible bulging veins and sixpack but the cellulite was there. I was so hard abd diciplined back then. I have funny hiding cellulite in my face cheeks, comes visible if i squeeze them. Im normal/lean.)
It is certainly possible to reduce it but it can be extremely difficult to get rid of, even if you want and decide to. You know it by trying, but it isnt always about your willpower and dedication if you fail. It can be almost impossible to get rid of and keep off, and it isnt worth of miserable life, mental prison, dying for etc. Give yourself mercy and treat yourself with respect. Cellulite will go or stay, who knows.
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Im happy I found poling… The focus is on gaining strenght, skills and expression.
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In perfect life you can burn the fat away. I agree, muscles are good and make you more strong and burn more energy. looking more fit. Some women can do it but not everyone can have as low body fat as body/bikini competitors. There are woman who don’t menstruate anymore in low fat% or are not able to exercise the amount needed for lean legs without getting physically and/or mentally sick in order to achieve their vision perfection.
The muscles can be big ad strong, and the layer of cellulite/fat is still on them. Blood circulation and lympha and autonomic neural system and the amount of stress also affect the way the body is functioning. Some ppl are fast runners, some others can run slow but long time, some sweat easier and some are always freezing. We are so different. Some men have it, some babies have it, even some bikini fittness girls still have it and it isn’t a question of willpower. -
Its fat and therefore it can be burned away. But the problem is that you cant burn away all the fat in your body. I have had it even as low body fat persentage as 13.. Which is impossible to maintain, at least for me. I have tried everything years ago and have given up totally. Cellulite will go when im dead and decomposing, so its not forever.
I think it has something to do with the skin types, someone has thicker=smoother? skin and someone else has thin skin. I’m fair and transparent beauty so the veins and cellubumbs are happily mixing together on my legs. I simply ignore it and focus on my skills and enjoying what I do.
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I go with my feelings and listen to my body. If I have slept badly, have stress I simply rest. Like this week. If I feel weak I dont push myself, it just makes me exhausted. But when im ok I train hardhard and do my best.
Monday: lifting myself on a bar/rings: upper body and crazy core. Streching legs.
Tuesday: 30 min kind of hiit cycling and basic abs.
Wednesday-thursday: streching and/or rehearsing pole 30-60 min, freestyle, nothing heavy. Depends of how I feel. Or nothing.
Friday: handstands and bridges (in which I suck), back and shoulder flexility. Squats or ballet legs if I have energy.
Saturday: pole-ab-crunches or nothing… but always streching legs. Sometimes freestyle. Cleaning my house is also an saturday exercise..
Sunday: pole 60 min, new scary challenging moves, sweating.
Progressing on my own pace but ok I think, happy.
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Omg.. I just realized I’m in the same boat. I always need to do extra lift to get my kneepit around the pole, it never reaches it smoothly. I have short torso and long arms and legs, so it affects to everything, but still. I have to figure this out. 😀 How low is it possible to keep your hands when inverting? I have kept them near my face.
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If I were you, I wouldn’t carry my money to that studio, or then I would just use it and see what happens. My palms sweat always a lot, but on the other hand my body is moisture and grips very well to the pole. I use grip aids on my palms, kneepits, elbow pits, and footsoles. I wouldn’t progress without the grip aids, so I use them all the time. Its not about being weak, sweating comes from the nervous system. Good strength helps, but it doesn’t remove the basic sweating.
Liquid chalk (or those magnesium chalk bars that gymnasts use) has been best for me. It makes hands white, but it works 🙂 I sometimes use the dirty girl politice beforehand and the apply the chalk later. Dry hands is ok, but I have to apply it often.
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I rarely have the possibility to go to pole studio, I work on my own. Well, I went to a weekend course and and they used the twisted grip there a lot, like kicking from the floor into the Ayesha, pole cartwheels and kind of pole splits using the grip. I tried to use the twisted grip for the first time in my life, and it felt odd, like there was a iron string running inside my arm and digging my flesh. I tried the twisted grip handspring to Ayesha maybe like 5 times per side, then it just felt so bad I didn’t want to do it anymore. I noticed that the grip is kind of stable, though. The other girls were using the grip without problems (or so it seemed), the instructor says that everybody hurt. It’s been 3 days since I was on the course, and I can’t do an invert without pain in my shoulders.
Am I just being a baby, can I do something to be able to do the grip even now and then, or should I just let it be? I’m kind of disappointed to what I got. I think I’m too weak to perform good Ayesha yet, I fail the handspring also with the split grip, but it feels much better and the result is about the same than with the twisted sister.. :/ -
Happens now and then, it’s impossible to prevent it because it is natural and everyone has always some gas in the guts. Right kind of food can do a lot 🙂
The worst thing is if it happens in company or in pubic.. Once I was doing inverted splits on a trapeze and the magic happened.. I still feel ashamed when thinking about it 😀
Ps. If you haven’t experiences the vajay accidents, try to do dragon abs XD I fail them in every possible way. XD -
I was on a circus handstands course and I learned there something that might be helpful. 🙂
In the process of learning the press handstands you have to first learn to descend your legs slowly. Tucked knees or straddle v legs make it lighter. When you feel you are losing the control, lift up again. Repeat. Do it against the wall or pole until you can perform the move.
Also try to kick up and hold your knees in tucked position before lifting them up. You can practice this on the floor without support. Awesome for abs too!
The hollow body! No bananas! If you can’t keep the hollow position, the move is still too hard. Practice hollow body position on the floor, it is very good ab workout and helps your body to adabt the move.
The progress takes time. I have estimated that It’s going to take me year or two for me :D.. But there’s nothing but time and patience.
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Try to eat regularly and choose food you remember you have sometimes enjoyed. Appetite needs regular eating. The body learns it has steady energy available and if the fuel runs out, it says: give me more -> the hunger. If the body is used to starving every now and then, it can go to save mode and doesn’t alarm. Fatigue and problems in focusing can be a sign of silent hunger.
For gaining strenght, you have to eat regularly with or without appetite. -
Everythingpoledancing.com seems to have affordable crash mats, the also do ship abroad… I think I’ll buy myself a Christmas present.. 😀
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The difficulty is to know when you’re ready to do something, learning is stepping out of comfort zone and expanding limits, it is always exciting.. It is not good to be afraid, but not to be too eager and brave either. I thought I could do the move and decided just to perform it. After all, this was a good lesson and reminder that I don’t have to master everything alone or need to be braver or stronger than I am. I have had to survive on my own, I managed to carry a washing machine once, didn’t realize I could have asked for help. How sad and stupid is that..
Phoenix, I have very similar fears: ayesha, butterfly, being face down on my hands only.. having an svelte upper body and heavy legs + more or less sweaty palms :).
I don’t like to throw myself to moves.. I hate to kick myself to a handstand (and over), rather try raise my feet controlled with abs.. my instructor praised me of my abdominal work, I didn’t tell her I fear kicking 😀Girl On A Pole, you can also crawl on your hands to get out, keeping your legs on the pole and sliding them down at the same time.
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Yes *hugs*, not paralyzed but very alert. You both wrote good points. Veena, thank you for the link
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Sounds familiar, it is hard for me to concentrate in large groups where I have to follow what other people are doing (and think what to say to the teacher if she/he comes to help and grabs my naked leg etc.). I have a tendency to compare myself with other though I know the dangers of it. I also live “in the middle of the nowhere”, no pole studios here.. 😀 At home concentrate on poling itself without feeling the social pressure or being nervous. I really like Veena’s calm and gentle style to teach. Of course it can be sometimes be dangerous to pole alone, therefore I try to take random classes when feeling I need security.