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Here’s my vaulted ceiling piece from Platinum Stages, if it helps…

My boyfriend ended up putting the large chunk of wood between the pole and the ceiling for a bit of extra support… https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_safesex.gif

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Unfortunately Pandora doesn’t work for this particular Singh because the "artist" makes soundtracks specifically and none are similar to this https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_sad.gif

I’ve found some gypsy type music but it’s all so light. I love the darkness of this song. I’ll try out some other suggestions and let you all know if anything hits https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif

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Day 50 was yesterday… Gonna try to do an exercise test tomorrow to compare to my day 1 stats… Wish me luck.

So the past two weeks I’ve really nose-dived in my discipline. I have barely been waking up in time to get to work, much less early enough to work out and then shower before leaving. I need help https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_sad.gif https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_sad.gif

I’m gonna to try to slap myself back into this, but with the weather so much cooler it’s so hard not to spend my mornings wrapped up under the covers https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_sad.gif

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Bleh – I am not feeling any advancement yet strength-wise, and I’m starting to lose it in the mornings. I don’t wake up early enough to get in a full 30-60 minute workout, the most I am making is a ten-minute workout. And as always I’m too tired in the evenings to finish it up. Today however is my first *REAL* day off in about two weeks so I’m doing some poling with a friend =)

This past weekend was spent at the EMW Polarity Competition. I didn’t compete but I did do a Pole Jam on Friday and workshops on Sunday that royally kicked my butt =P

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No way! I think most of us started on different days anyways https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif

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Basically just an extreme consciousness about time spent exercising and being healthy- I’m trying to work out around five times a week as opposed to my previous one day a week …

Come to me, muscles!

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That’s awesome! I too started with very little strength and a slow beginning. I found that in addition to building up strength I was much more motivated to work out when I spent a little time just dancing around my pole (even if I couldn’t do many moves yet). But after 8 months of poling I am realizing that I never completely committed myself to it (only working out once a week and not doing any supplemental strength training) and so have plateaued… Now I’m diving in and just started the 100 day workout challenge on another thread so I can gain the strength to perfect the moves I know and finally move forward with new moves!

Just don’t give up, and work hard! You can get there jet like the rst of the pole dancers here did if you want it enough!

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Day 4/100 – I did a morning workout of 40 minutes of the P90X Core Synergistics – didn’t quite get through the whole hour but I did most of it. My stomach feels yucky now, like nauseous. I think thats my abs being sore, I normally feel like this when I work my abs…. just hope it doesn’t ruin my day!

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If you’re worried about weight loss then counting calories or at least making a food journal is a great way to be more conscious of your eating and try to alter it for the better.

Today I did a 10 minute Veena warm-up and a ten minute quick pole dance. Not a lot of time for much else. Tomorrow will be my first early morning workout though *grumbles*

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It looks gorgeous https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif

I hope we’ll see more from you but noatter how slow you take it, don’t give up! Happy poling anniversary!

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Thanks for the information and advice! I just decided to start the 100 day challenge in another thread, I’m gonna give this a serious go but I am Sooo bad at waking up in the morning. I’m trying to come up with ways to motivate myself to wake up. I think I’m gonna see if I can print some downloadable pics of awesome pole dancers and frame them to put by my bed and on the walls by my pole – so when I see them I’m reminded of how amazing they dance and my desire to get better.

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Okay so I started by printing out a fit test from p90x to get some starting stats https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif

Resting heart rate : 68
10 minute warm-up (I used veena’s warm-up that got me to a small sweat)
Pole pull-ups : 1 (to failure)
Vertical leap : 10 inches
Push-ups : 30 (from knees- to failure)
Toe touch (distance beyond toes) : 0
Wall squat : 45 seconds (to failure)
Biceps – weight curls : 30 at 10 lb.
In-&-outs (legs curl to chest then extend out) : 37 (to failure)
Heart rate maximizer (taken after 1.5 minutes of jumping jacks and 30 seconds of extreme jumping jacks) : 158

Finally I did one hour of pole with two friends https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif
Today was my day off work so I worked it hard.

I decided that I’d like to work out at least 4 times a week, with at least two times being one-hour workouts and stretching for 30 minutes at least once a week. I will try for more than that but this is what I consider more obtainable.

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I would like to do this as well, also going for strength rather than weight loss.

I’m hoping to accomplish….
Extended Butterfly
Spinning Inverted V
Pencil
Scissor Climb
15 real push-ups without a break
50 crunches without a break

I’m not sure if I’m going for too much or too little with my goals… but I guess if I master all of them then I’ll add more, and if I don’t master them then I’ll work harder next time https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_wink.gif
I’ll probably try to round up a few pics and some current stats on my capabilities and post here =)

As for exercising.. I’ve got the P90X from my boyfriend’s attempt at it (that didn’t last very long) but I’m not sure I’m ready for it >_< I don’t have an awful lot of endurance. I may try to get in some morning workouts (if I can get my lazy bum out of bed) but any advice on DVDs or specific exercises is appreciated. Any motivation help/advice is also MOST welcome!!

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That is the best line I’ve heard https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_wink.gif

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Eep I can’t imagine it would be easy to dance to Slipknot…. though I don’t know most of their songs by name so who knows… I agree APC is probably a good one to get into =)