Motivational Monday's: better Late than Never!!!

Aloha Polers and Pole Supporters!  I know today is Tuesday but we still need the Motivational Monday's!  So, today is Motivational Monday Tuesday's!  (LOL)  I saw this and thought....this is true!

Get your workout in so you can get your happy on!  Have a wonderful week!

Fitness Friday's: Importance of Stretching!

Aloha Polers and Pole Supporters!!  It's Fitness Friday's and although it doesn't seem like it have anything to do with fitness our subject for today is the Importance of Stretching!

Stretching is a VERY IMPORTANT part of working out for many different reasons!  With adding stretching into your workouts before and after that focus on all major muscle groups you will get more out of your workout as well as decrease the pain afterwards;)!

Stretching will increase your flexibility and by increasing your flexibility you will be increasing your physical performance during exercise strengthening yourself against injuries in and out of the workout.  By adding stretching into your daily workout you are helping yourself from suffering when you age:)!  Stretching also helps with increasing your blood flow to your muscles which then helps prevent your muscles from tiring so quickly too!  

The proper way to get your stretch on before your workout is to do a light warm up to get your muscles warmed before stretching them.  Stretching muscles when they are cold is no good!  For example, if you are planning on running , do a light jog until your feeling warm, stop and do some stretches to the major muscles groups and continue your run.  You probably already see a lot of runners do this because they know the importance of stretching:)!

So, get your stretch on and see the benefits hands on!  Have a great weekend:)

Motivational Monday's!

Aloha Polers and Pole Supporters!!  It's Monday and I thought  would share this motivational photo to get your week started right!!!

Nothing like a tough woman to help get you through the week;)! Have a great week and get it on!

Fitness Friday's: Push ups!!!

Aloha Polers and Pole Supporters!  It's Fitness Friday's and today's topic .... Push ups!!

Yay for Push ups!!!  This is another move that we all LOVE to HATE because it hurts so good and we know that they have many benefits.....but what are those benefits???  Push ups help in many ways when done correctly.

Benefits of Push ups:

• They will help in building strength:)
• Can increase metabolism:)
• Most important, build your core strength:)

These are just some of the benefits but my fav's!!!  When doing a push up we need to remember that if is hurts, DO NOT DO IT!  There are so many different forms of Push ups and everyone is different.  Some of us have previous wrist injuries and some of us have never done a Push up in our lives.  regardless, there are ways to work around everyone's injuries, etc to make it happen:)!  A Standard Push up starts with the palms of both hands flat on the floor right outside of your shoulders.  Depending on your strength, they can be done with your knees on the floor or just your toes.  From the floor or starting position, you will need to use your upper body strength to Push your body weight up making sure to engage your core (engaging the core will help a lot!).  When Pushing up, try not to hyper extend your arms to prevent injury.  Keep them soft and not locked either.  After you have pushed your way up, slowly with control bring yourself back down also engaging your core to help prevent injury.  That's it!  usually when doing Push ups you would do however many sets or how ever many Push ups but if you are a beginner I would suggest to do as many as you can for one set and really push yourself!    Important things to remember:

• Listen to your body:)
• Always engage your core:)
• Keep your body straight throughout the Push up keeping your butt down and in line with your body:)
• If it hurts, modify or change hand positions:)
• QUALITY over QUANTITY:)

Get your Push up on and have a great weekend!!

Just Pole's You Tube Channel Updated!

Aloha Polers and pole Supporters!  Just wanted to let everyone know that we have updated our You Tube Channel with more championship videos!  Check us out on You Tube at:

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv5vX4w50MoWEz319fW0MiQ?feature=mhee

Have a great day!

2012 American Pole Fitness Championship Champs!!!

Aloha Polers and Pole Supporters!!  Yet another awesome competition has passed us by with some more great performances as well.....the 2012 American Pole Fitness Championships!

The American Pole Fitness Championships were filled with many well talented performers but of course only so many can win.  We would like to congratulate the following on their wins!:

Awesome 1st Place Accro & Pink Puma!!!

Men's Division

1st Place Accro!

2nd Place Suwasit!

3rd Place Ravan!

Women's Division

1st Place Pink Puma!

2nd Place Phoenix Kazaree

3rd Place Ashley Fox!

Yes, all amazing performances by these awesome Pole Idols!  Congratulations to everyone who competed as well!  We will soon has performances on our You Tube channel!

Have a wonderful Wednesday!!

Pole Survey:)

Aloha Polers and Pole Supporters!  Happy Tuesday:)  I want to encourage all of you to take a Pole Survey recently released:

http://www.facebook.com/PoleSurvey

This is being conducted worldwide and will only take 5 minutes to complete!  The purpose of this survey is gather information to measure the strength and commercial power of the Pole Dance Sport and Fitness Industry as it is growing bigger and bigger everyday.  This survey will benefit everyone in the Pole Community and you get some awesome discounts at the end for participating!

Take the 5 minutes to really be apart of the Pole Community and help share your love as well!

Have a great Tuesday and pole on!