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!

Motivational Monday: Train Insane!

Aloha Polers and Pole Supporters!  It's Motivational Monday's and we need plenty of it!  I saw this and LOVED it!:

"Train insane or remain the same!"

So true so let's get it done and have a wonderfully 'Train Insane' full week to make the change;)!!!

Polefessional Saturdays: Michelle Stanek!!

Aloha Polers and Pole Supporters!  It's Polefessional Saturday's and today's Polefessional is Michelle Stanek!

Michelle is not only a Polefessional but also an instructor and Xpert Xpole Master Trainer too!  We had the honor of working with her during our Xpert Xpole Training and saw hands on how great she was with not only performing but teaching and really making sure that everyone is on the same page.  She has such a great and motivating attitude which makes it easy for anyone to learn from her.  She has been dancing for many years now and is currently located in New York teaching classes at Body & Pole!  Michelle is a master at many things from pole to the booty pop;).  She has also taught classes at Crunch Fitness and is a member of AERA which is an aerial dance company consisting of pole and other aerial arts such as hoop, silks, etc.  We all love Michelle for many reasons but mostly because her performances motivate us to work harder cause we want to be like her LOL!  It's true!  Here are some of her accomplishments so far:

USPDF Pro Champion 2012
Pole Dance Universe Champion 2011
USPDF Amateur Champion 2011
PFA’s Pole Drama Champion 2010
Polesque Champion 2010
Pole Art featured performer (August 2012, Stockholm, Sweden)
Pole Art 2011 finalist (4th place) and AERA performer (October, 2011 Helsinki, Finland)

If you have not seen her perform yet you are missing out!  Check her out on our You Tube Channel:

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

Have a wonderful Saturday and Just Pole!!

2012 California Pole Dance Championships!!!

Aloha Polers and Pole Supporters!!

So far, even though it just started, October has been a busy week for Pole!  Love it!!  Just in from the United Pole Artist are the results of the California Pole Dance Championships!!  Congratulations and great job to all who danced their cute lil' butts off!  The following are the results:

2012 California Pole Dance Championship Professional Category Winners:

1st Place:  NADIA SHARIFF!!

2nd Place:  Mary Kolacinski!

3rd Place:  Sergia Louise Anderson!

Most Athletic:  Nadia Shariff!

Most Flexible:  Sergia Louise Anderson!

Most Entertaining:  Nadia Shariff!

Most Artistic:  Mary Kolacinski!

2012 California Pole Dance Championship Amateur Category Winners:

1st Place:  Lily Huang!

2nd Place:  Stacey Craven!

3rd Place:  Uyen Hoang!

Congratulations winners!  Well deserved!  

Have a great and Pole-i-ful day!

2012 Miss Texas Pole Star Winners!!

Aloha Polers and Pole Supporters!

Results are in and we want to congratulate every single person who competed in the Miss Texas Pole Star competition this year!  From what we hear, all performances were beautiful and motivational:)!  The following are all the awesome winners by category:

Miss Texas Pole Star Ultimate Winners:

1st Place:  Crystal Belcher!

2nd Place:  Lindsey Dement!

3rd Place:  Amy Henderson!

Miss Sexy:  Lindsey Dement!

Miss Flexibility:  Crystal Belcher!

Miss Trixter:  Holly!

Miss Texas Pole Star Silk Professional Winners:

1st Place:  Ember Ache!

2nd Place:  Natalya Demilla!

  Miss Texas Pole Star Silks Amateur Winners:

1st Place:  Adrienne Foreman!

2nd Place:  Lisa Cannon!

Miss Texas Pole Star Amateur Winners:

1st Place:  Melinda Bradford!

2nd Place:  Megan Weinzierl!

Miss Sexy:  Melinda Bradford!

Miss Flexibility:  Alexis Petruso!

Miss Texas Pole Star Masters Winners:

1st Place:  Tricia Lauerman!

2nd Place:  Princess Leia!

Miss Sexy:  Tricia Lauerman!

Miss Flexibility:  Tricia Lauerman!

Miss Texas Pole Star Fitness Winners:

1st Place:  Aerie Deschain!

2nd Place:  Nicole Robinson!

Miss Sexy:  Aerie Deschain!

Miss Flexibility:  Diana Robinson!

Congratulations girls!  Enjoy your Just Pole Goody Bags!  Keep up the amazing job everyone and we hope to see a performance again in the future!!  Maybe at the Melee on the Bayou;)!!!

2012 Miss Texas Pole Star Competition!

Aloha Polers and Pole Supporters!!

What a great weekend and even better if you are apart of the 2012 Miss Texas Pole Star!  Unfortunately, we were not able to attend this event but we were able to sponsor the event and send some goodies to all the fantastic winners!

The 2012 Miss Texas Pole Star this year was filled with great Polefessionals as well as awesome talented competitors!  Once a complete winners list is available we will be sure to post it:).  But for now, congratulations to all who placed and all who competed!  As I always say, it takes guts to get up there and talent to work it up there as well and all you have that!

Have a great weekend in Texas and everywhere else! 

USPDF Championships!!!!

Aloha Polers and Pole Supporters!

What a great weekend of awesomeness and pole!!!  Whoever was able to attend the USPDF Championships must have been blown away times a thousand because just watching the You Tube videos takes my breath away!  If you haven't had the chance to watch any of the You Tube videos from the USPDF Championships this past weekend check out our You Tube Channel:

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

We will be gathering all of the You Tube videos we can for you all to sit and enjoy all at once without the hassle of searching;)!  There was so much talent there that I would have hated to be a judge!  With that being said, we would LOVE to congratulate all the winners from the 2012 USPDF Championships!!!!

2012 USPDF Pro Champion Michelle Stanek!!!!

2012 USPDF Pro Runner Up Alethea Austin!!!!

Omg right?!?  They were so awesome!  We also would LOVE to congratulate the Amateur finalists!!!

Take a look at these beauties because they will be around!  Congratulations to all participants for getting up there and strutting your stuff cause that takes hard work, dedication and not to mention some guts!  Thank you also for sharing your beautiful talents and getting all us other pole addicts motivated!!

Yay for pole and awesome polers!

Enjoy the You Tube videos and have a great Thursday!!!