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I’m 36 hips, but I order small… my “cheeks” hang out, but I kinda like it that way 😀
The size chart is on the bad kitty page, but it only lists bust, waist, dress size and cup size.
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I like Optimum Nutrition Platinum Hydro Whey. It’s a 100% hydrolyzed protein powder which helps with absorption into the body. It also dissolves well so no lumps of dry protein powder.
This might be TMI, but for me, it doesn’t cause any protein farts. I only mention this because it sounds like you’re new to protein supplementing and “gaseousness” is something you should be aware of.
Velocity Vanilla, Turbo Chocolate or Cookies & Cream Overdrive are my flavors of choice, the peanut butter and strawberry ones tasted too artificial for me.
I get mine for Amazon, much better pricing than GNC and I’m a Prime whore :\
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There are heaps you can do without heavy use of your wrists, here’s a quick short list from the top of my head:
– layback
– planks (beginner, intermediate, advance)
– inside leg hang
– outside leg hang
– jade
– meathook
– cupid
– shoulder mount
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Yup, I learnt this on static. My experience is that you can do almost any move on static and spinning, it's just usually easier on one or the other depending on the move.
The tip I have is to squeeze the butt cheek of the lower leg once your arm is in position, this gets your upper leg/butt closer to the pole which gets your underarm closer to your leg to get a better grip.
Good luck!
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I have never heard of muscles becoming lumpy… would love to see some citations or source of that thought from that fitness trainer class. I'm not a pro at fitness or pole, but I have a decent understanding of biology, physiology and body mechanics I can't see how performing an exercise in the reverse could make muscles lumpy. In the way I described how to start doing harder strength training, you're basically just doing half of the push up or pull up (the easier half) until you get enough strength to execute the full motion.
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Different hand positions work different muscle groups. There are quite a few different hand positions; wide, narrow, press ups (like a yoga chaturanga) triangle etc etc.
Push ups aren't only upper body strength conditioning, but it also requires core strength to keep your body "flat", ie, not pushing your upper body up, then your hips, so keep it up with the plank exercises!
For any strength exercise that I was new to, I always liked to start in the reverse, so that means instead of a "push up", I would "lower down" very slowly. Once I get on the ground, then I get back up what ever way I can and repeat. When just lowering down starts getting easier, then I would then add a stall, meaning I would lower down half way, hold for a 3 count (the 'stall'), then continue lowering down in a controlled manner. After that, you can add 2 stalls as you lower down. The next step now would be to try a 1/3 or 1/2 way push up, meaning you lower down 1/3 to 1/2 of the way then push up.
I used a sequence like above to get my pole pull ups. When I started, I couldn't even do one (as in feet would not leave the ground), and now I can do maybe 8-10.
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I had a friend who had progressively worsening forearm pain. She ended up getting diagnosed with golfer’s elbow by a sports doctor.
She had to take it easy on pole, no bracket hold whatsoever, PT sessions, elbow strap, heat and stretching exercises. I think she’s starting to get better, but it took months and she’s still not 100% as far as I know.
Having said all this. The best advice I have is to get properly diagnosed by a sports doc.