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OK, this is not a reply about shoes, but the headline cracked me up!! See, at my studio, they refer to a woman’s vulva as her "pleaser". "Stretching my Pleasers" really made me do a double take!! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gif

Mindy

https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gif https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gif https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gif That made my night!

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Hmmm so I can just get the shoes themselves hot and press something not hot into them? I figured I would have to heat something up and put the hot thing into it to stretch it. I’m worried I’ll mess up big time just hitting the shoes themselves with a blow dryer, like amcut said think I’ll melt the toe cover right off https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gif

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(Won’t be trying them tonight though as already started on the wine and cooking a curry soon!)
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Yumyumyumyumyumyum https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gif

http://exercise.about.com/library/blbandstretch.htm

I found those, the leg stretches are the same ones I do except I also sit in a straddle and loop it over each foot alternately, help hold myself down for about 2m on each side that way as well.

Also if you take the lightest one and just wrap both ends around your hands to get some tension, the first circle (tai chi) makes a great very beginning warmup for arms and shoulders and it’s especially great for bringing awareness to the fact that all the muscles of the body connect in the back and core. You can feel the first circle originating from the core better when you add the little bit of resistance.

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I feel too awkward to pick one! I feel like I should, but I just don’t know.

for my first name.. i actually got it off World Of Warcraft! LOL! it was an NPCs name and i was like wow thats pretty awesum!! =D

WoW npcs have such awesome names. I could just walk around moonglade and have my pick of cool names LOL =)

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And there you go proof perfect, because for me…the knees! Oh god the knees! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gif Everyone is definitely different considering I have no idea how knee holds don’t hurt for some people! OW! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gif

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OK now I’m jealous =D My teeny apt. doesn’t leave me many options for pole placement, I would LOOOOVE having a room just for working out. Take pics when you get it all together! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_sunny.gif

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Here’s a website that sells what I’m talking about. I’m not sure about finding these in the UK, maybe ebay stores or amazon would have a UK seller? Also, these are latex as are mine, if you’re allergic you’d obviously need something else. These come in different resistances as labeled by color. I have blue (4.5lb) and green (3.1lb) because I only use them to stretch and add light resistance to yoga poses and tai chi.

http://www.yogadirect.com/yoga_thera_bands.html?gclid=COiSpualxJ0CFQ4MDQodsXYksg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Lol the more I learn the more it hurts. Guess it’s just a fact of life! The more advanced your poling, the more fancy your falls and bruises https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gif

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Yeah, belt or exercise band works great! I use a lark’s head knot to loop it around my foot, I think that’s the most common name for it. I’m posting a picture here so you know what I’m talking about, where you loop it in half, stick your hand through and grab to make a loop. If you’re using a belt obviously just thread the end through the buckle and let it slip down to be tight around your foot. (Not too tight obviously don’t sue me if you turn your foot purple https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gif )

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Freethesun I’m so sorry that happened to you. That’s why I get so angry when I see trainers pushing young kids that hard, serious injuries are almost inevitable when you work a kid’s body like that. I see too many kids in my neighborhood getting into basketball and volleyball where the coaches are jerks and droves of little ones as small as 10 years old gimping around after surgery for torn ACLs in early summer. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_thumbdown.gif

Yoga blocks can be really awesome for supporting a stretch gently. I also like to do assisted stretches, it’s my favorite way to stretch. I lay flat on my back with an exercise band overhand looped over the end of my foot and pulling on it, font and side, until I feel the resistance. Then I use it to rotate out the hip flexors by supporting the leg as I rotate the foot outwards. I have problems with my lower back so I find this is much more stable for me, especially if I put a support under my back. Only when I do assisted stretches can I really hold the stretch as long as you have to be able to in order to really benefit from the daily stretching. I’ve even looped a belt around my foot in a pinch to get my stretching in. I just lost a lot of flexibility in the past year and I’m really trying to work on it. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_salut.gif

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Thanks, all! Sounds like the smartest thing to do is rest it, which definitely means take the pole down. Think I could continue some very light strength training with free weights? like 5-10lb or less depending on what’s comfy, just so I can keep it up without making it worse and keep a better eye on how that elbow wants to hyperextend.

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I did practice carousel some, and chair a lot trying to get a better attempt at a reverse grab. That would explain the elbow I think. I really angered that elbow, I’m taking my pole down tonight because I really should give it a few days, and…if it’s up, I won’t take a break https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gif

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I’ve been wondering the same thing too! Reaallly wish there were a notify feature for that. I left a few reply comments as well, on blog entries mostly, before realizing they were never going to be seen https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gif I’ve been using the wall comments like you said, figuring that might have a better chance.

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I love my chrome x-pole. I’m not strong enough to use spin yet, but of course on the first day I undid it to see what it spins like https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gif I found it pretty easy to switch, just a few revolutions with the allen wrench on either side and it was spinnin’ free. I can’t imagine it would be too much of a hassle to use regularly. You might want to think about x-pole over a one-piece just in case you’re going to be putting it up someplace with a different ceiling height. I’m a senior in college and I know I for one will be checking out the ceiling heights in my school’s dance studios because students can reserve time in them and I realllly want to use those mirrors. I just don’t have a dedicated pole space to put up a mirror. And I definitely would not be able to travel to my parents’ house with a one-piece pole, I a little coupe it wouldn’t even fit in my car https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gif

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I have smallish hands and I’m doing fine on 50mm https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_thumleft.gif I would say as long as you don’t have really tiny hands (as in have trouble buying gloves because all the fingers are an inch too long) you won’t have a problem with the 50mm, and that’s club size anyway. I would say maybe go with chrome, as many people I know who got the titanium ended up getting chrome because the finish on the titanium gold wears really quickly and you wind up with some spots on the pole really sticky and grippy and other parts quite slick. However, it will give you a bit more grip off the bat. Again, I have the chrome 50mm and have no regrets. Whether you get the chrome or gold, order it here on StudioVeena-free shipping!