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Cool stuff!!
Trena.. (because I know you’ll check out the merch! ;-P) I’m jealous of your Irish-cailin-sporting-studio-veena-wear look! I should jump on the bandwagon! (sorry I couldn’t find the fada button for cailin there!)
Hey boyfriend.. this is what I want for Christmas!!
PS: What dress size does a medium sweat pants correspond to?
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Oooh you’re going to Jenyne, PoleTickles!! Caroline is going to one of her master classes too.. on.. Tuesday… maybe? I’m goin to a Jenyne aerial hoop/silks master class on Friday (in Stoke)!! I can’t wait!! I love the hoop!!!
I’ll have to try make my way back to upside downs class at some stage.. when I’m richer! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gif I miss you guys!!
Sure I’ll see you at Pole Princess. Best of luck!! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_salut.gif -
Me too! me too!!!! My wrists/forearms are wrecked these days like never before!! It sucks doesn’t it? You are afraid to practice too hard in case you do damage!! Hope it goes away, for both of us!! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif
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I love this move too!! Similar I can only do the hand change, still to be able to shoulder mount from it!! Good luck PoleTickles.. hope you get it for Pole Princess.. I’ll be watchin’ https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gif Then maybe next time I share a pole with you, you can show me how!! ;-P
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Woohoo! Something new about menus in the "Getting Started" video Veena has posted!! Does that mean new lessons on the way!? https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_bounce.gif
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Thanks alot guys.. Ottersocks that really explains it for me! So it is exactly what I thought – you are resisting against the stretch the whole time as you take it through your ROM. And that is very hard!
It was just extra confused since I bought those two books at the same time – Genius (Cooley), and Stretching Scientifically (Thomas Kurz). You just can’t follow the principles of both at the same time because they conflict! Hmm.. I’ll try the Bob Cooley method for a while then since I know that I’m at a plateau with the regular PNF stretching anyway.
Thanks all, I’m interested to follow everyone’s progression with the resistance stretching!!
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Freaks shall inherit the earth!
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thanks from me too – I’m gonna get that disco ball-looking one!!
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Hey Veena, I could do a Cartwheel Mount before I could do a proper Superman.. I thought I was the only freak!!! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gif
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I agree with Empyrean.. I find it easier to climb a little and sink into these poses than doing them from the ground.
Also in the beginning these moves hurt and pinched the bejeesus out of me.. but after about 3 practise sessions the pain lessons!!Still can’t teddy on a spinning pole though, cos I’m a wuss with the pain!!! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_sad.gif it seems worse than on static somehow!!
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Hi!! I’m from Ireland, but my first pole class was in Fremont in Seattle!! It’s a lovely place!! I love the troll. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif
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Hi JC – for a pec exercise, what about doing push-ups with your hands on the floor as your feet/legs are still locked on the pole as you do a superman-style dismount from an invert? That would work your pecs if your body is angled pretty horizontal, and if you do push-ups as your body is still angled up the pole a little vertically (i.e. decline push-ups), you might work the upper fibres of your pecs, also incorporating your delts as you do the pole-assisted push-up? Could this be a similar type idea to an incline dumbell press which all the lads in my regular gym do to try to get the bulky pec muscles??!
Also, would anybody agree with me that a shoulder mount (esp. with straight legs) seems similar to a what they call a pull-over in the gym? And as far as I know it, a (dumbell or cable) pull-over in the gym, although usually prescribed for the back muscles, also targets the pec muscles (as well as the see-saw looking muscles at the side of the chest/ribs, I think, which when you can see them, are really the embodiment of the term "ripped" for me!!)
I’m now trying to think of some pole exercise that would be similar to a flye-type exercise for the chest (e.g. dumbell flyes) … but I cant think of one.. and some dips… hhhmmm I wonder if it’s possible from a position such as the Chinese pole pose at 2:15-2:20 in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaB_0LUGfjQ" https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_bounce.gif !!! That would be super-cool!!! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_bounce.gif Or even the hold alone must be good for the pecs!! and triceps of course.
Having said all that (I’m in a long-winded writing mood today!!), I hear that some guys find it hard to bulk up their pec mucles especially if they are tall,lean and/or not naturally "bulky". But that’s ok… myself I’m not mad into super-pec muscles on a man!! Just a lean, mean, defined look!! That is all! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gif
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Hi ladies – I bought the book too, on the strength of all of your recommendations! I also bought another book called Stretching Scientifically which was also brought up in that previous thread started by Ottersocks. At first glance/light read-through it seems to me that both of these books were written by guys who seemingly discovered the general idea of PNF stretching organically by trial and error, with two different twists on the PNF methodology.
For example, I’m slightly better in the straddle splits than side splits, and my favourite PNF-style stretch for it is to ease as far as I can into a straddle, pause, and then do cycles of CRAC where I contract my groin/adductor/inner leg muscles against the resistance of the floor really hard for a few seconds, afterwards relaxing into a further straddle stretch while contracting the relevant antagonists (i.e. outer leg muscles). Where CRAC = Contract, Relax, Antagonist Contracts.
Now my question for you all is this.. I find Bob Cooley’s book a little hard to interpret also. Is he saying that the muscle should be contracted and the stretch resisted against as the joint is taken through one’s current full range of motion, and then the only relaxation part that comes into it is when the relaxed flexibility of the stretched muscle is tested afterwards, and gains noted? It seems really hard to take a joint through the whole range of motion whilst keeping the muscles in a hard contraction all the time. Well, I find it hard anyway. Have I interpreted this correctly? If so, does anybody know why (or if) it is better to stretch a muscle this way than to take it to its limit of flexibility (or just below) before starting cycles of contracting/resisting and relaxing into a further stretch? Is it a different form of PNF stretching (e.g. dynamic? or I made this up… CCANC = Contract, Contract, Antagonist Never Contracts??? https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gif I’m a geek!!)
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That grip is cool alright – but looks like it’s only for double-jointed aliens of the Felix variety!! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gif However, I love this girl’s practice space.. the props and the smoke!!! Makes me think about theme-decorating my pole-room!!
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Hey Mindy4pole – wrt your theory on using arms more than core.. I know I definitely do this – got good arm strength but my core needs work! So.. my arms are kinda bulky alright! Moreso than when I didn’t do pole!! But it’s okay – I like photos of me that look like I’ve got guns.. I agree with Polegrrrrl on that one!! And the fact that I can do pull ups in the gym makes me feel like a real man hahaha!! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_bounce.gif
