[Prilladonna]

Ok, since I've been studying some psychology, and even some sports and exercise psychology, and like to read about these kind of things, I will summarize some general tips for getting great, but at any sport.

 

1. In practicing for getting better, you need to practice with awareness. That mean that you alter your training sessions, an try new things. You need to get a challenge sometimes, in order to progress.

 

2. Repeat, repeat, repeat. The ones that are great, are not great for nothing. They spend loads of time practicing.

 

3. Get feed-back from someone, if you are not sure of how you are doing you are not able to improve the things that are not working.

 

4. Focus on what you need help with. Most of us focuses on the things we are alredy good at, when we could get super by imrpving the stuff that aren't really working for us.

 

5. Beprepared to work really hard, mentally and physically. There is a reson for the limite amount of people excelling, and that is that it takes time.

 

Hope that helped you somewhat, even though it is general advice. Then as the previous girls pointed out, I don't know if your goal is to get excellent just for the sake of it, or if you want to win the world cup 🙂 Since pole is more of an artform than sports for me, 'i think that maby one could focus on finding your own niche. Pole is relatively new, so I think that there is loads of room for finding new ways to express yourself 🙂 Good luck!

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Hello again! Well, Tallicachild, I don't eat meat but fish since I like fish but not meat. And as it seams, it helps me eat better. Now I'm eating more vegetables than I was when eating meat, and it cuts out all the "bad" meat that I used to eat. I guess that it depends on why you are a vegetarian, everyone has their own reasons 🙂

 

@megan12: yep, do know. It gets to me, cause I am the least lazy person I know when it comes to training, but then again I am not the smallest  :/ so I try, and struggle to get enough protein since it works better for me, but I don't really want to eat red meat. And I don't eat chicken and fish that much either, and I get tired of eggs sometimes… Maby should try more nuts? Cause I know that I tend to fill up on carbs instead :/ and even though fruit is good for you, maby not the amount  that I do eat somedays 😛

 

@Aerialgypsy: thanx! Trying to avoid soy! Am really happy that (after a really long time….) almond milk is available in grocery stores! 🙂

 

Thank you for all tips! 🙂 find it intresting that everyone has thier own way of seing something as basic as eating 🙂 will check out the "Fat Head" ocumentary as well! 🙂

 

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@beginner2: Thanx for the reply! I love to discus proper diet! It's also hard to know what diet tips that will do it for me, or for anyone at all, since different studies imply different things… So I think I will do whatever feels best atm 🙂 but I totally agree with you, it is not the meat that tastes good, it is the seasoning..

 

I couldn't open the youtube link, but found it anyhow 🙂 sounds relly cool! Will def check it out!

 

Unfortunately, I have found that I do increase muscle, and and are able to shorten my resting period between training sessions if I drink protein shakes (whey). I also tend to eat less if I consume a protein shake a day, due to feeling satisfied. I reed somewhere that what's your "optimal" food depends on your genes, some are better at processing protein than others, and some are better at processing carbs, and there is of course those that are in between. I personally feel fuller on protein, but also heavier. And that is a welcomed feeling in intense periods of training.

 

I once tried a raw food detox diet, and went on it for three months. During those months, at least my sister said that I lost weight, but the problem was that when I started eating as usual, I had lost a lot of muscle, and I gaind a lot of fat due to not having the same energy requirments (muscle burn seven times more than fat…). And then I read somewhere that it's actually so that the body can't take up all the vitamins in raw food, so that it's better from a vitamin perspective to eat cocked food… And then I kind of gave up.. I'm not sure what to think, and probably even the scientists are arguing about it, lol. So I mix both coocked and uncoocked greens, with focus on coocked ones during winter and uncoocked during summer.

 

But I would love to read arguments for both sides, if anyone feels like they are up for it 🙂

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Thnk u everyone!  🙂

 

Well, I m pretty helthy and do train  lot, a vary the exercise I take quite well. I have a scle that should measure the amount of body fat I have, and acording to it I have a precentage of approx 35%, and that is a lot. But I do also have a lot of muscle, and look as heavy as I actually am :/ I am what you would say a ft but fit person 😛 so, I should have a good starting piont if I would like to decrease in fat percentage 🙂

 

I ate red meat until the age of 19, and then I moved back to my mother, and she was then a vegetarian, the kind tht eat eggs and dairy products. And since she cocked the food, I became a vegetarian. Or at least most of my food was. And then I lost some weight 🙂 I was as well really tired of red meat, since I had been working extra t McDonald's while getting my high-school education… The kind of meat that I ate back then was mostly half-fabricats (could you say so in english?),  or processed, half-coocked stuff an really not that healthy :/ So one day I simply made a decission to stop with red meat as well a white meat, except for fish, cause i have always liked fish. And I'm sorry for missleading you about the vegetarianism, but at least in Sweden we do differentate more about being vegetarian, most of the people calling themselves vegetarians eat fish. It's called different things dependign on what you eat, for example a lakto-ovo-vegetarian eat dairy and eggs, while a lakto-vegetarian eat dairy. So, everytime I say I am a vegatarian, I also have to explain whitch type, but at least I don't end up with a hamburger , lol 😛 But the thing is that I do eat chicken once in a while, and I started for about four years ago when I started lifting weights. I found that I really wanted to eat chiken back then, an I thought that it was my body telling me something. So I do eat is sometimes, but do not want to eat it to often, cause it makes me feel "heavy". It's like I only need it when I have been training heavily. Except for that, there are environmental reasons for not eating meat, as well as how the animals are treated in animal farms, an if I don't have a real reason to eat it, I am only happy to give it up. I don't like it.

 

Now I will go find out what spelt is in swedish 😛

 

And thank you chemgoddess, I will check the thread out! 🙂

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Hello sallybull6140! sry 2 hear that! unfortunatly, Ive been having kind of the same issue :/ I am finally starting to get my invert, but it aint pretty.. With that said, what have helped me whit the small progress I have had is actually a lot of different things, and I am not really sure what helped the most or if it is some sort of combination, and there are lote of different reasons why people struggle with the invert. Anyway, I have been trying to get at least one hour of cardio a day, since my big but was quite hevy to lift 😛 then I started practice controlled shoulderstands or what i should call them, laying on the floor, with the pole placed in my armpit, hands i the same positioning as for inverting, and then raiseing the legs upp as in an invert, but from laying on the floor. Hope that made some sense to you. My goal was at first 20 of those a day, but in reality it was for like 2 times a week or so 😛 but it helped a lot, i think. Then i started som flexy training, so that i could pull up my legs from a smaller distance from thje pole 😛 I also found that i was really unflexible in the back, and stretching that one out every day or so also helped. Now i am also poling seriously for twice a week, and that helped in building "basic" shoulder and back strenght, so that the body doesnt fall down trying to invert. Well, i think you have to find your "invert problem areas", and finding ways to solve them. But i would gladly have more advice on this topic as well, since i am now struggeling wiht the chopper…

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Okok, maby a bit late.. But well well.. Here we go again.

 

My main goals is increased flexibility and strenght. I will also be more persistent in my invert practise (which has for most times just not happened at all…)

 

But, now on a weekly basis (for the next week at last) I will:

-do daily stretches (yoga) and meditation

-8 hours of sleep

-attend taekwondo class 2 times

-attend a strenght training class 2 times

-1 hour of cardio per day

-eat at least 1/2 kilo of fruit and veggies per day

-increase intake of protein (in form of fish)

 

Good luck to me! 😛 and good luck to all of you hard working ladies!

 

 

 

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I'm in! 😀

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I'm in! But will have to think about it for a whie first… Hm.. So friday sounds perfect!

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phantom nightwish edit! 😀 or cell block tango 🙂 woop woop!

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Have the exact same problem, tried for two days now and i just wont work… 🙁 also tried to push the save button, but nothing happened.

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Hey everyone! I haven't been able to check in too often now, and well, aren't doing too well with my goals… But I figired they were maby to many of them so I would be happy with the progress I have been making in many of them.

 

And to Porshka, sorry to hear that, but happy that the med is working 🙂 sometimes, I find that it helps just to let go of what you think that you are supposed to do, and freestyle, especially when it comes to pole. I remember a time when I started to pole, and just thought it was fun, and with al those moves that I'm supposed to know and do and practice, I just loose the motivation to practice at all. Maby it could help you overcome your anxiety? I know for sure that poling has helped me tremendously in getting rid of my former anxiety and depression since it was a way to express myself and getting my thought to go somewhere else. Hope you get back on track soon! You can do it!

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Since it is a week since I set my goals mabye it is time to evaluate how things are going.

 

For now, I think things are going quite alright. During this week I have attended 2 yoga classes, three strenght training classes, one dance class and one spinning class. But, I have not been to the pole dance studio, which could be seen as one thing to work on for the next week. I have been training with the routines video by jamilla though, so always something 🙂 as for he cardio, I have been using my bycycle everyday, approxiamately for 1,5 hour a day, and will have to do so for a long time now, so hopefully I will be in a really good shape in a couple of months 🙂

 

 

[Prilladonna]

Thanx for this amazing thread! I also want to get in (altough, I know it's late…)!

I've got so many goals I want to fullfill, especially I've been working on the basic invert for a really long time, and from day to day I can perform it, but I want to be able to perform it any time, any day, without effort. So that will be my main goal. I hope a month will be enough for that one.

I need to improve my strenght, so that I ca do the headstand, handstand and catslide.

 

I also want to more fluid in free dancing and floorwork.  And of course, improve flexibility and strenght. It would be nice to loose some pounds as well, but main goal will be on gaining strenght and getting some conditioning.

 

To accomplish this, I've decided to:

-attend a strenght training class once a week

-1 hour cardio / day (bycykling for work will do it, or jogging, spinning or a dance class)

-attend one dance class a week (need inspiration)

-eat the half a kilo of fruit and veggies a day, considering one portion of raw food a day

-attend the pole studio at least once a week

 

Thank you so much girls, and good luck with your goals! Keep it up!