Art and Pole

Welcome to Art and Pole, a blog containing tutorials, advice, reviews, and articles about my general life in the pole community. This blog is queer-friendly, trans-inclusive, sex worker supportive and body positive. 

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Core Strength

Tone It Up Tighten & Tone Your Abs video

Pop Pilates Flat Abs Challenge video

Pop Pilates 3 Minute Ab Challenge video

Thighs and Butts

Pop Pilates Slimming Inner Thighs & Calves video

Pop Pilates Inner Thigh Insanity video

Pop Pilates Saddlebag Shaver video

Pop Pilates Standing Pilates for Legs, Butt & Obliques video

Pop Pilates Butt Blaster video

BodyRock 300 Squats Challenge

Skinny Yoga Girl Legs & Butt Workout

Your Whole Body

Tone It Up Arms, Abs, and Legs Pyramid video

Pop Pilates Till The World Ends video

Pop Pilates Summer Slimdown Part 1 and Part 2

Bodyrock I’m Into You Workout video

Skinny Yoga Girl 1000 Rep Workout

Skinny Yoga Girl Full Body Cardio & Strength Workout

Skinny Yoga Girl Burning Body Workout

Strictly Yoga

Beginner Yoga 20 minute video

Hurts So Good Power Yoga 95 minute video

Blissed Flow Yoga 90 minute

Sun Salutations video

Sun Salutations 2 video

Hip Stretches

Tara Stiles Bend It Like Tara

40m Yoga weight loss  Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

Yoga Fitness Plus 45 minute video 

Yoga Sculpt30 minute video

Yoga Fitness Fusion 45 minute video

Try Some Zumba:

Basics

Cardio Party

Bikini Bod Time

Bikini Abs & Thighs

Sandcastle Workout

Bikini Blast Circuit Workout

Tone It Up Itty Bitty Bikini video

Tone It Up Bikini Beach Bum video

Tone It Up Bikini Abs & Thighs video

Tone It Up Sandcastle Workout video

Tone It Up Bikini Body Workout with Self Magazine!

Tone It Up Bikini Blast Circuit Workout video

Tone It Up Bikini Body Workout with Self Magazine!

Pilates

Flat Abs Challenge

3 Minute Ab Challenge

Slimming Inner Thighs & Calves

Inner Thigh Insanity

Saddlebag Shaver

Standing Pilates for Legs, Butt & Obliques

Butt Blaster

Sexy Workouts: 

Aerobic Striptease

In the Bedroom (don’t even need to get out of bed)

“Body Rock”

Cardio Part 1

Cardio Part 2

Cardio Part 3

Cardio Part 4

BodyRock.tv Hot Body Workout 

BodyRock.tv 4 Minute Workout

BodyRock.tv Hardest Workout

BodyRock.tv Hard Bodies Getting Harder Workout

BodyRock.tv 6 Minute Workout video

BodyRock.tv Run The World Workout video

BodyRock.tv Hot Attack video

“P90X”

Chest and Back/Ab Ripper X

Plyometrics

Legs and Back

Cardio X

Kenpo X

Shoulders and Arms

Core Synergetics

Stretch X

Chest, Shoulder, and Triceps

Back and Biceps

“Insanity”

Fit Test

Plyometric Cardio Circuit

Cardio Power & Resistance

Cardio Recovery

Pure Cardio

Cardio Abs

Core Cardio & Balance

Max Interval Circuit

Max Interval Plyo

Max Cardio Conditioning

Max Recovery

Insane Abs

Max Interval Sports Training

Upper Body Weight Training

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I need to start working out again

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A (probably) logical step in a rather unexpected journey

I never really ever expected to join the pole community. To me, it was always something the cool, strong, slightly dangerous and intimidating girls did. And then, in November 2014, I was feeling pretty low - not getting on with my housemates, my workload piling up and not really doing anything constructive. My mental health was suffering, and I knew I had to go back to doing something constructive - I’d given up riding, art, and spending time with my dog when I moved away to university - and finally got up the courage to sidle into the university’s pole exercise classes. It was difficult, but fun, and I never felt discouraged (now being an instructor myself, I know the dangers of over-critiquing a student) and despite the bruises, I came back twice a week, every week I could spare the time. Then I did something really stupid. I signed up to compete in the beginner’s category of an inter-university competition. I suddenly found myself spending every spare moment I could at practice, booking extra sessions outside classes with the other beginners, looking at endless tutorials, practicing my routine to the point where even now, a year later, I can remember it move for move. When I finally performed it, almost everyone from my club told me “your smile once you finished was lovely, it was so sweet”; that smile was 100% pure relief that I hadn’t fallen and made an idiot of myself or injured myself. But I was hooked, and continued to give pole everything I had. What with having had no pole at home until recently, and spending summer and Christmas back at my parent’s house, I’ve been poling for about a year, and I really do feel like it helps me be more than just fit - it gives me goals to work towards, a sense of accomplishment, and when I’m feeling low or just need to let some feelings out, a freestyle session always helps, even if it just tides me over to the next day. I have issues with body image, gender, mental health and rate of progression - a lot of the students I started teaching this year are outpacing me, as I’ve been hampered by a bad shoulder injury on my dominant arm for a couple of months now, and yet I keep coming back. I keep planning routines, working on moves, making notes about competitions in the area that aren’t for months yet. Pole has helped me immeasurably, and I want to pass that on to other people - I want them to feel the same thrill when they land their first spin or their fiftieth invert, and I want to expand my repetoire of moves and motivate myself at the same time. So, with that in mind, over the next year I will be blogging my way through an alphabet of pole - twice. Once with beginner and lower-level intermediate moves, and once with higher level and advanced moves. I’ll be releasing one or two tutorials a week, plus floorwork tips, reviews of various products, and articles about my life in the aerial art community. I want to inspire people, and show them you don’t have to look or be a certain way to pole, and that it’s okay to take it slow - even if there’s a tutorial on Youtube where the instructor is insisting that Superman is a beginner’s move (it’s really not). If you want to share your pole stories with me, your photos, videos, thoughts - I’d love to see them, and never be afraid to ask me something (just let me know if you want the ask kept private, and it will be). I first thought of this as a personal project, but I figured there are a lot of people in the same position as me, and polers should help each other out. Sorry for the long post - next week I’ll be releasing tutorials for three foundation moves, and the A of the beginner’s alphabet. See you soon!