Pole Fitness

Fierce x

Hi

Anyone tried Pole Fitness as a form of exercise? I teach classes and have found (for women) it's the best way to tone up your body nevermind losing weight curves are beautiful lol :-)

Not posting as a shameless plug but would love to see how many people have actually tried it, and not on stop signs at 4am outside coppers :cool:

MagicMarker

I love curves, although in my experience the women who say curves are beautiful usually have too many of them. :pac:

Is it the best way to tone up your body? I highly doubt it. But it would be a good start.

Fierce x

MagicMarker wrote: »

I love curves, although in my experience the women who say curves are beautiful usually have too many of them. :pac:

Is it the best way to tone up your body? I highly doubt it. But it would be a good start.

:pac: That's one way of looking at it! Yeah you're lifting your entire body weight up into the air and spinning with it, at all different angles - there's muscles in your chest, shoulders and arms that just don't get any other way....

MagicMarker

Fierce x wrote: »

:pac: That's one way of looking at it! Yeah you're lifting your entire body weight up into the air and spinning with it, at all different angles - there's muscles in your chest, shoulders and arms that just don't get any other way....

Forgive me if I misunderstand, but are you saying that pole fitness targets muscles that can't be worked on in any other way?

If that's the case, then you're far from correct.

Fierce x

IMO, you target muscles that aren't necessarily worked in the gym, esp if you're a woman, as few of us do chin ups etc in the gym. It's basically a skill (as any type of dance is) where you are getting more than an aerobic-style workout - you're also getting what can be viewed as weight lifting exercises into the classes. I've been teaching for five years and have found nothing else like it for toning. But that's just in my opinion

MagicMarker

Fierce x wrote: »

IMO, you target muscles that aren't necessarily worked in the gym, esp if you're a woman, as few of us do chin ups etc in the gym. It's basically a skill (as any type of dance is) where you are getting more than an aerobic-style workout - you're also getting what can be viewed as weight lifting exercises into the classes. I've been teaching for five years and have found nothing else like it for toning. But that's just in my opinion

Fair enough if that's what works for you, you're wrong though in what you're saying.

If you're not working specific muscles in the gym (makes no difference if you're a man or a woman!! ) then it's because you're not targeting those muscles specifically.

I'd be happy to hear what muscles you think aren't/can't be worked in the gym?

rubadub

Fierce x wrote: »

IMO, you target muscles that aren't necessarily worked in the gym, esp if you're a woman, as few of us do chin ups etc in the gym.

I was wondering about your comment about it being for women. There are alternative exercises women could do, like body rows or plenty of work on the likes of gymnastic rings.

Pole dancing/fitness has come up before, general consensus was if it gets you moving and you are going to stick with it then good. I prefer my bars horizontal! it does seem fun and I know a few girls who did it, but just for a bit of a laugh.

If going vertical I would pefer rope work.

sunnyjim

Has anyone actually tried any moves on a pole? It really requires a serious amount of strength. My mates house has poles leading up to a balcony, we mess around sometimes by climbing them, then using the balcony for pull ups etc.

It actually requires a good bit of arm/back strength, as well as strong abs to throw yourself upside down and hold yourself there.

rubadub

sunnyjim wrote: »

Has anyone actually tried any moves on a pole? It really requires a serious amount of strength.

I tried and it does require strength to get up there, those bouncers in Lapellos very tough to get past

The thing is it is static holds like this, like in gymnastics, it is sort of hard to gauge progress. I do L-sits and you can use time instead of reps and see that your legs are at perfect right angles etc. With a pole I expect it is harder to get some positions so hard to gauge progress.

Fierce x- have you any websites with exercises?

I could not attempt anything like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh7tWZS3fkA

There was a female pole dancer also doing extremely hard moves, but probably too dodgy to post up.

I would still say gymnastic rings are cheaper and far more versatile than a vertical pole.

fatmammycat

I imagine it's pretty tough on the body all right. Anything using body weight will tax the muscles.
I train with free weights in the gym, run and go kicboxing twice a week, so I would not have time for another class, but I'd be interested to see who might join. A friend of mine went to a few classes in Wicklow and said it was incredible, but she didn't keep it up for some reason.

sunnyjim

A friend of mine liked poledancing classes so much that her and her sister went and got a pole installed in a bedroom of their house.

Sisters. Niiiiiiiiice.

There was a female pole dancer also doing extremely hard moves, but probably too dodgy to post up.

I assume that vid comes straight from your "the lads on hols in the 'dam" folder on your phone