[Rachel Osborne]

I booked a sports massage last week – asked for deep tissue and they basically stroked me.

🙁

Chiro recommended someone who does proper sports massage; can’t wait!

[Rachel Osborne]

I would never have thought of chiro for headaches before pole and this site: I just suddenly thought if headaches are better after exercise I bet it’s a body mechanical problem (rather than going to GP and starting blood work etc). I have learned so much from reading threads on here.

[Rachel Osborne]

Day 1 done and pics taken.
🙂

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Oh dur I have just seen it tells you on the chart

[Rachel Osborne]

How many/how long of each exercise?
Do you go to fatigue? Or pick a length of time or number of reps and then increase over the 30 days?
Thanks

[Rachel Osborne]

Including Pleasers!

[Rachel Osborne]

If you are near London, Camden Market/Camden Lock has lots of alternative/fetish wear shops with good platform heels and boots 🙂

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Yay me too 🙂

[Rachel Osborne]

Hi everyone
Well have just been to see chiro who wants me to come back next week; says my whole neck back especially right shoulder and chest is in lock down – he released my neck which I think will help with headaches, recommended 3000mg of Msm supplement and glucosamine sulph. Also told me to try a new pillow and build in more recovery time for muscle repair, and keep foam rolling and book sports massage to release fascia.

So that’s all quite positive and am doing 2 full no training days back to back to see if that helps.

I think he was quite intrigued by what I was doing; I was cagey and said gymnastics on a vertical bar plus yoga and ballet. Explained a bit about inverting, scapula use and lots of hand stand type stuff and points of contact putting heavy loading on joints.

A good reminder that sometimes stretching and rolling isn’t enough and we may benefit from a body mechanic doing an MOT!

[Rachel Osborne]

Sounds awesome please share!

[Rachel Osborne]

Hi Phoenix
Yeah I think I will take 2 full days off and just rest and eat protein rich things. Not injured as ab ache gone today but just over training I think. Wake with headache every day and forearms permanently bit achy. It’s hard trying to find balance: this week my schedule was a bit too heavy. Last 7 days

Thursday yoga. Good for flexi but very heavy on forearms, lots of down dogs.

Friday ballet booty barre: good lower body, included weights and cardio and a million plies.

Saturday acro pole/conditioning hour then hour floor work
Sunday pole jam: floor work and messing with inverts: freestyle and stretching
Monday 1:1 heavy 45 min doing allegra, thigh hold, planche stuff and switch combos
Tuesday 1:1 more inverts and headstands then conditioning and splits stretching evening
Wednesday Skype with Shoog
Today – going to skip yoga and just swim a bit
Friday – booked to see chiro to see if headaches are mechanical problem and can be sorted out by him, if not will see GP.

Assuming all good will be back training at weekend with acro pole and dance class Sat and freestyle jam on Sunday. Might leave Allegra practice and home free styling til middle of next week although am dying to work on leg switches as they are not tidy at all.

How are you holding up? Do you think my schedule is a bit heavy? What’s your training schedule like (nosy) 😉

[Rachel Osborne]

Thank you!

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Whoops here is video https://www.studioveena.com/videos/view/53d85852-9e54-460f-87df-3ada0a9aa0eb

[Rachel Osborne]

Thanks guys.
Hmmm. Well, I have made a video of it in case that helps. It’s a bit shonky but at least you can see what’s going on. I don’t think it’s Firebird (gosh how gorgeous that move is).

I take it back about not being twisted/out if square. I am totally twisted like a jade or machine gun.

I am still a bit stumped. Needs tidying and a pretty exit (any ideas for that?) but I like it, whatever it is.

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It feels similar to a machine gun but less tilted, I twist hips in jade and machine gun so they’re out of square but in that trick you have to be square.

It’s not that different to lady planche but that has two hands on pole; in what I was doing it is arm wrapped round leg and squeezing hip and side into pole. The hand on the pole is basically just there to provide a lock to squeeze bicep into leg and leg into pole.

It’s as painful as a teddy or yogini.

Thanks! Maybe it’s a machine gun planche lol.