MissJulie
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I think I can make that date… I doubt I’ll be on call or anything. And I need some pole time!
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I’ve seen the most improvement when I am lifting heavy weights 3-6x a day in the 6-12 rep range, much less so when I am doing martial arts and yoga and gymnastics type stuff, where my flexibility gets better but my strength goes way downhill.
I’m currently training for a fitness competition and haven’t seen pole improvement yet, but have seen a lot of improvement in my straddle handstands. Hoping Chinese flag or flag to BM will come soon?
Currently, weights 4x a week concentrating on shoulders/back twice a week, including olympic lifts. I try to get 1.5-1.7g of protien per body weight and have to track my diet to make sure this is happening. My ratios are around 40/40/20 with 20 percent being fat only from fish/nuts/seeds/egg yolks. Cardio 4x a week (this is a lot for me and I’m hoping strength doens’t decline), combination of hill running and track drills (lunges, plyometric). I eat 6x a day, around 200-300calories per meal with mostly lean meats, veggies, and low GI carbs. Anyway, back to work.
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Whoops, guess it didn’t go through first time?
Okay here’s the list:
Deadlifts
Stiff legged deadlifts
Leg Press
Lunge
Squats
Standing hamstring curls
Lying hamstring curls (on elbows)
Dumbell incline bench hamstring curls
Back extensions/hyperextensions
Cardio on an incline treadmillI wouldn’t do the ones where someone holds your feet, facing down. Those can be bad on the knees.
Julie
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Are you talking about the hamstrings specifically?
Deadlifts
Straight Leg deadlifts
Standing leg curl
Lying leg curl (on your elbows)
Squats
Lunges
Leg Press
Dumbell step ups
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If you are hooking the pole with your right armpit, steady your left arm on the pole underneath you for support and with hips facing forward, lift both legs at the same time
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The reason I was able to do a spin the first time I tried or was able to invert in three classes, is that i lift weights. heavy weights. at least 20lbs each arm on bicep curls, 75-100lbs on bench/lateral pulldowns, 100lbs on squat, 150lbs on deadlift, 300lbs on leg press. yes, I need to get my upper body up. and yes, i want to get my weights up even higher from that.
i suggest working with a trainer, especially one with a gymnastics background.
Here are my top pole exercises:
hanging leg raises
assisted pull ups
lateral pull downs
bicep curls
clean and press
bench press
reverse crunches
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I wanna throw it out here too….. we don’t have enough ppl currently signed up but maybe I can make it happen… who is interested in an Alethea workshop in Austin, Texas??? remember, we also have Pantera here too so it’s possible you can get training from both Alethea and Pantera in our studio.
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I think part of the problem is pole isn’t something you can generally do with your significant other. Unless you’re lesbian, your partner is probably not into doing pole themselves.
Mine dislikes the pole, thinks it takes too much room, and is bored to death every time I talk about it or ask him to spot me/watch me. He’s obsessed with martial arts, which is similarly boring (however I would help him stretch for martial arts if he wanted me to, he won’t help me stretch for poling.) He also thinks I spend WAAYYY too much money on the pole and going to pole related events/workshops.
Honestly, I’d cut down my pole time if I could find something we both enjoy, athletically.
All I care about is lifting weights, my kettlebells, pole, and maybe dance or yoga if I have time. I won’t do cardio to save my life and I hate anything competitive/combative. He’s a runner and martial artist who won’t lift weights and stretch even in the name of cross training and only likes heavy metal (no formal dancing to that)…
It is very frustrating.
He does recognize it makes me happy so he WANTS me to keep poling but I do consider a counselor (not that he’d ever go) a lot because it seems like he won’t ever make an effort to find a shared hobby with me.
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That date’s a Monday but I can ask off for Saturday or Sunday? Anyway, would love to. I heart all TGR instructors, too… so fun. Ive been trying to coordinate pole play with Ashlee since and we somehow always have only 15 minutes together.
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Pantera is also moving to Austin mid-April. We’re hoping she will have fairly regular workshops at Brass Ovaries.
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AHHhH scary. how do you dislocate a kneecap?
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Okay, I no longer hate this pole. We are good now. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cheers.gif I knew I wasn’t doing something right in putting it together, I just couldn’t figure out what.
I think most of my issues have been resolved, thank god. I was worried yesterday. My boyfriend came home and put the thing together again late last night when I was at the gym. When I came back, the pole was still a lil wobbly itself but the base was entirely stable and it wasn’t making any noise. I had my other two friends over helping me put it together, and neither of us could figure it out, even though one of them is a studio owner and the other is a tool junkie. My boyfriend said he adjusted the bases because our floor was uneven. Honestly, I’m so horrible at putting stuff together on my own (all the furniture I bought from ikea two years ago has completely fallen apart) I didn’t understand half of what he was saying. He talked about getting some grommets and shivs (lord help me I dont know what those even are) and putting them between the triangles. My girls were recommending buying and cutting a heavy top to put over the plastic flooring, but I think we just need a piece of plywood on the bottom to negate the carpeting.
The pole itself is now only as wobbly as a lil minx, which is about an inch of wobble and still doesn’t distract me too much from playing it. Before I felt like it was going to boomerang me off. Now it is just similar to an X-stage. Much less than an R-pole and to be expected of a free standing pole. I’m still nervous to do an ayesha on it. Partly also because it is so skinny. Hopefully I will see someone else do it first. I do still hope they make extensions, because my ceilings are very very high and its frustrating not to have anywhere to practice my death lay.
I will say the brass is beautiful and the grip is great. I think it will convert me to skinny poles. And it is cheaper than an x-stage so I’m much relieved.
I still want to do some work on it.. plywood underneath and velcro between the triangles…. open to suggestions…but I dont think I’ll have to do any of the ridiculous project type work I was originally thinking like drilling holes in the triangles and filling them with sand or getting a heavy laminated top. Yeay.
I have been recommending PS to students for quite a while. I can definitely recommend this pole now.
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I just got mine and put it together.
The base is very light, which makes it easy to carry. but the whole stage wobbles like a frisbee. It’s like poling on a moving boat. The pole itself you can probably push about a foot either way while in its base. The wobbling makes it very loud. I have carpeting, I dont know if that helps or hinders.. the triangle puzzle pieces of the stage move back and forth a lot- they’re not even interlocked.
Alana downs wasn’t wobbling nearly this much. Help https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_mad.gif
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There’s going to be a tutorial on this move!!!?!?!!?!
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I saw karol helms do it once. I attempted to imitate, thinking it was easy. I could not freaking figure it out (i also have a damn stage pole of course. that never helps)
Julie
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That would be AWESOME! Thank you! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cheers.gif
