[Ninaklein]

Hi!
I can relate, staying motivated can be pretty hard!
What are you working on? And how many times a week/ a month do you practice?
Why did you start pole? And what are you hoping to achieve?
(For example, I care more about flow, freestyling and movement rather than strenghtbuilding and difficult tricks. I’d love to be at a point where I can design my own choreo’s to whatever song I want and also be comfortable enough to freestyle.) Do you know what could be the reason for not progressing as fast as you’d expected?

[Ninaklein]

Okay so it actually worked out great!

I watched the video’s while folding laundry and doing the dishes, and when I did the workout I could remember some of the tips in the video about my form and I very much felt all the burn!
I guess that if I keep watching the video’s the night before eventually I will know all the tips without having to watch the instructions for the strength and stretch stuff!

After that I did the workout as I described in the last post and it took me 37 minutes to do the warmup, the exercises (right side and left side!) and the 3 stretches at the end! I feel amazing! Also very happy to know that I only have to add another 15 minutes to my early wake up to do this every morning.

Thanks Veena and everybody giving me advice and support!
I feel super blessed to have this community to fall back on so I don’t have to figure out everything alone.

[Ninaklein]

@Veena, Thanks for your reply.
I’ve done the 30-day Take-off last year and it was super helpfull, I felt my strenght and skills grow and it was super fun to do, but for me it was not possible in 30 minutes. It usually took me an hour and a half.
I checked again just now and only to watch the video instructions takes me about 30m a day.
I do really want to try them again so I will try this solution:

– Watch all instruction video’s the night before bed instead of while training
– Try to do the excercises without the instruction video’s, only rewatch them if it doesn’t feel right
– Cut out the rest in between excercises and do 2 excercises at the same time (the rest for set 1 excercise 1 will then be the workout set 1 for excercise 2.)
– Make peace with adding another 30m to my early wake-up. My body will get used to it as soon as I keep on it and go to bed on time.

I will let you know how it went when I try it out later today!

[Ninaklein]

Thank you!
That’s actually some great advice!
I’ll try it out and post about how it went!