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Thanks Cali! I absolutely forgot about Amazon!

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I can’t find where to buy the vado or the flip? The direct links on the site don’t appear to be workin for me… Though they look pretty good. I like that the USB is part of the camera. I will keep looking

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Yeah I’m not in a giant rush to get one. I was just wondering whether it’d be worth the investment. I was curious as to what other polers use. I know you can get some pretty good deals, but I wanted to ask the more experienced polers what they thought!

Seems the camera is the way to go 🙂

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I think Dirdy Birdy mentioned somewhere that the finish had worn away. I might be wrong though

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I go to one in Revesby. It’s really nice, I mean I’ve never been anywhere else but really friendly and really encouraging.

I suppose I could ask her if they could switch.

I just changed my home pole to spinny and I think I like it better. My skin seems to rebel at the static pole- that might be because I’m bigger though? I know my knee lock isn’t right but I just can’t manouvre my leg into the correct position. I dunno.

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Mine is the old style Xpert and I can’t undo it- but Dad can. He just undoes it. I just assume its because he’s stronger.

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Thanks Kambrose for the information! I’m gonna have to convert all this oz in liters and work it out, I know water intake is something I have to increase- bought myself a pretty water to help!

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You are a super star!
Thank you very much for helping me 🙂 I always worry about what foods I’m eating but just assumed I was doing okay, I’ll keep it all in mind next time I’m grocery shopping- bit of a budget so I’ll see how it goes! I really appreciate all your help

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I have to admit I get bored of health food. Maybe it’s because I don’t know recipes or something but I’m a girl that loves her macaroni and cheese, bangers and mash, lasagne, burgers, nachos etc ( which explains my body shape haha) and I don’t like going without those foods for very long- I tried no bread for a while and I couldn’t do it either

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Hi Koidragon,

My exercise (before pole) was doing Zumba wii for 20-30 minutes 3 days a week (or so) and around 50 minutes of Resistence bands 1 day a week. Though I didn’t have a schedule and my time varied each time I did it depending on how late to work I was running.

Since I started pole I stopped the two things above because I didn’t know how intense it was, but I was doing the 30 Day Take Of every day until about two days ago when I pulled something in my shoulder and its restricting some movement and causing pain. Will have to see a chiropractor or something to fix it.

I was also trying the couch to 5ks problem which was 30minutes of interval running and included 5mibure warm up and warm down- I did that most days for a little while until it turned into winter and was raining all the time

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Thanks Pankake!
Everyone has been so so helpful! I thought I ate fairly healthily- I mean I have bad days, I’m an emotional eater and a bored eater (unfortunately!) so sometimes I’m a HORRIBLE eater but I’m getting better at quelling that.

I like the idea of substituting what I like eating with something slightly healthier. As stupid as it sounds, I’d never thought of that.

I like Zumba, it feels just like dancing around in the house in my underwear, except I’m wearing work out gear and I’m following a routine!

As for the high and low end of my weight I’ve never been healthy. So my high end is 110kilos and my low end is 96 kilos or so (bad I know) so I would like to get down to about 75-80kgs which is going to be a lot of work 🙁 wish it was as easy snapping my fingers!!!

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Actually I do have a question regarding food if anyone could help while we’re talking fitness. A typical day of food for me is this:

Breakfast: a serve of yoghurt and fruit/toast ( english mugfins erc) and spread with a glass of milk or juice

Snack: If I have one- yoghurt/musli bar/ fruit

Lunch: usually a sandwich/roll with chicken and salad with a can of soft drink (used to be a bottle trying to cut down)

Snack: if I have one is same as previous snack

Dinner: is a lot of variation actually, sometimes I have a cuppa soup with or without a bread roll, or one of those frozen meals – lean cuisine or whatever.

Very rarely had desert

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Thanks for that!

Though I’m a bit nervous of that for me considering I can’t do things such as the pole hold consistently yet. Would it work for anyone do you think?

I feel a bit silly asking so many questions.

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Moonlite- I was on Tony Ferguson but stopped that and increased all my exercise and started eating better. People keep saying I’ve lost more since I stopped TF (2 months ago) but there has only been a 2 kilo difference in that time so I assume toning up a little is helping (though my belly is still wobbly!), especially in my calves, I can notice my calves are more toned

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Thank you to everyone who has replied!

I assumed there was some cardio involved – maybe my misconception came from the “dancing” part of the word.

I’m big, so I assume for right now all I would really need to do would be pole but I would plateau pretty quickly. I guess short class of Zumba, pole and resistance bands it is.

I was actually starting the couch to 5k- I stopped because it has been raining but I might start that up again.