ShonaLancs
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I pole at least once a week (my lesson) for an hour, and if I dont do pole again that same week I will do something else, usually core exercies. But it really depends on how I feel, I usually do fits and starts, like this week I have done an hour of pole, an hour core, then yesterday did an hour of silks followed by another hour of pole….
Sometimes you just get the buzz and want to be on it all the time and sometimes you cant be bothered. When I started I did at least 2 hours a week to build strength but now I am just chilling out and enjoying my journey…if I do 4 hours ace, i must be in the mood, if I do one, life has taken over…
So I have never done it every other day but I have been doing it for nearly 2 years and have built a lot of muscle (see my abs progress pics!) without going mental on the exercise 🙂 just try a regime for a few weeks and see how it works for you. But, most importantly enjoy your journey and time on the pole. Have fun
Also, see Veenas lessons for suggestions on frequency of exercise and search the forum because there are a lot of existing threads discussing this topic x
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My diet had changed since I started pole 22 months ago. I have always eaten relatively healthy when i have made food for myself but liked takeaways at weekends and chocolate (sugar generally) was a big part of my life.
When I started pole I noticed muscle forming and because I had a layer of ‘chub’ over the muscle I was starting to look a bit bulky (in my eyes) and I wanted to see the product of all my hard work on the pole so I started making changes to my diet. I also got a lot of indigestion. Now this is pretty much where I am:
Breakfast – weetabix / toast (occasionally a bacon butty, it used to be both days on the weekends, now it’s maybe once/twice a month)
Lunch- I make my lunch for work now rather than buy a sandwich. I usually take tuna or chicken with a variation of salad / vegetables and sometimes add low amount of brown carbs (pasta/ cous cous/ 2 slices brown bread/ potatoe)
Tea – meat and vegetable based food with max 40g brown carbs. I don’t restrict fats such as those found in oils or dairy because they taste good and as long as you are eating the lower fat or better fat (olive oil vs vegetable) and not eating the entire tub they don’t make a difference to me!!
I have cut out processed sugar where I can- all drinks are sugar free, no pre made fruit yogurts, ice cream, sweets, choc are all no no through my working week then I can have anything at weekend. At first I binged now I’m not bothered as my taste buds seem to have changed?! It has taken me 2.5 months to get to this point with regards to the sugar thing.
Anyway, all of this has been for the same reasons as above, I want to feel light not heavy for pole, Feel like i have energy, and i have lost weight but that wasn’t my goal. However I have achieved losing the bulky feeling and I can now see most of my abs! Another bonus has been that I don’t suffer from indigestion anymore, and have found that it is directly linked to processed sugar for me, so that’s a super reason to keep it out of my belly!
Oh and I feel generally loads better with much more energy 🙂
I defo think the processed sugar reduction has made a massive difference to my pole performance, so I would suggest trying that for anyone who suffers from sugar addiction like I do or did! It was very hard to do, harder than giving up smoking for me! -
I am very excited 🙂
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I don’t think it’s rude. It’s a statement, an observation ‘you can tell its level 1’ like ‘you can tell its blue’, well yes you probably can tell its level 1, but that’s not a bad thing, you might have kicked ass at level 1!!!
Men say what they mean there is rarely an alterior motivation to their comment.. -
There’s 4 of us coming 🙂
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I agree with what Kobajo says. Focus on the one thing you are keen on now and all the other things will come with time.
I have focused on strength but have also developed flexibility, dance, flow, etc etc throughout my journey. It will fall into place. Once you get one of your goals you can start working on another one of your goals. Just keep poling.
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Yeah we are cool with that, can you post address please Lizzy xx
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Same as Hazel said xx
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Well we haven’t got an alternative Hun so we can wait to find out 🙂 I don’t wear heels anyway so I don’t mind x
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Dfa studios in great harwood Hun. I had to try them after having a little play at the last jam. It was so much fun. Never mind about the silks, ill just be happy to get together again 🙂 been beefing my core to improved the chances of the iron x practice!
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Are there silks??? (New obsession!)
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I don’t mind 5 poles , vik and I usually share anyway x
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We are still good for 30th (4 ppl) x
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We could use our studio in Burnley but as before there are only 4 poles all 50mm and spinny (no static option) x
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July is out for me guys I am in Thailand 🙂