Friday, December 19, 2008
Pole fitness championships
On Nov. 30. we organised the finals of the Pole fitness Contest 2008. During 4 preliminaries 15 woman qualified for this event. Here are a few pics.
Monday, December 8, 2008
Pole fitness on the Beach!
On August 30. Pole fitness was one of the workouts demonstated during the "Wellness on the Beach" event. Fitness and aerobics Instructors from clubs all over Holland and Belgium were invited to this annual event. On the sunniest day of the year, we shot some great footage!
Dieting
Dieting is nonsense!
A catchy quote is always good to get attention. Why is dieting nonsense?
The true meaning of the word "diet" is "mode of living". And that is exactly what has to replace all those diets. If you'd like to loose weight and keep it steady, you'll have to stick to a certain mode. In this, the balance between input and output is essential. How much and especially, what do you eat and how much calories do you burn? Let's sum up some don'ts: full-cream milk products, pastry, fast food, sweets, potatoe chips, etcetera, are products that are very hard to compensate by training. When you're really serious, these produchts don't belong in your cupboard or fridge.
The phrase addiction might be a bit exadurated, but there are a lot of women who think they can't do without. I hope to show you in the upcoming columns good alternatives.
When you make sure you clear your food supply from the mentioned items, we'll discuss alternitives next time.
A catchy quote is always good to get attention. Why is dieting nonsense?
The true meaning of the word "diet" is "mode of living". And that is exactly what has to replace all those diets. If you'd like to loose weight and keep it steady, you'll have to stick to a certain mode. In this, the balance between input and output is essential. How much and especially, what do you eat and how much calories do you burn? Let's sum up some don'ts: full-cream milk products, pastry, fast food, sweets, potatoe chips, etcetera, are products that are very hard to compensate by training. When you're really serious, these produchts don't belong in your cupboard or fridge.
The phrase addiction might be a bit exadurated, but there are a lot of women who think they can't do without. I hope to show you in the upcoming columns good alternatives.
When you make sure you clear your food supply from the mentioned items, we'll discuss alternitives next time.
The Pole fitness concept
Early 20o4 the idea came to me about making the dancepole available as a fitness device to women of all ages and classes. The reputation of the pole was the biggest hurdle to take. How to overcome that?
First we needed a name. Pole fitness - that had a nice ring to it. We registered the polefitness.com and .nl domain and got to work.
We spend all of 2004 and early 2005 in developing the Pole fitness concept. We wanted to create a fitness program that was a true total body workout, in which the women would train on strength, cardio, flexibility and, not in the least, mental strength.
We had countless meetings with physiotherapists, people of the Universities' sportcenters, personal trainers and medical specialists. Their advise was incorperated in our concept, and early 2005 we had made the base of our program.
Now the question was, how are we going to get the dancepole into a healthclub, and preferably a prestigiuos one?
We phoned an acqaintance working for one of the leading Dutch newspapers, telling her that a healthclub in my hometown of Gouda, was having poledance classes. Poledancing in healthclubs - that was unheard of! (Well, early 2005 it was).
We staged a class, with friends, both poledancers and non-poledancers, and the newspaper had a full page story that following sunday, with the headline "Topsport!".
This article caused a massive email flow of girls asking which gym in their vicinity was having these classes. We had to disappoint them, because these lessons weren't taking place anywhere yet, but fortunately 3 healthclubs were among the ones that contacted us.
In these 3 (pilot) clubs we tested and adjusted the concept to the program it is to this very day.
Today, at the end of 2008, our grouplessons program is given in over 35 clubs, among which 4 universities' sportcenters in the Netherlands. In 2009 we will start looking for female instructors in other countries, that are sportive, enthousiastic and enterprising, to make the fitnesspole available in a true fitness program worldwide.
For more info on Pole fitness please visit: www.polefitness.com
First we needed a name. Pole fitness - that had a nice ring to it. We registered the polefitness.com and .nl domain and got to work.
We spend all of 2004 and early 2005 in developing the Pole fitness concept. We wanted to create a fitness program that was a true total body workout, in which the women would train on strength, cardio, flexibility and, not in the least, mental strength.
We had countless meetings with physiotherapists, people of the Universities' sportcenters, personal trainers and medical specialists. Their advise was incorperated in our concept, and early 2005 we had made the base of our program.
Now the question was, how are we going to get the dancepole into a healthclub, and preferably a prestigiuos one?
We phoned an acqaintance working for one of the leading Dutch newspapers, telling her that a healthclub in my hometown of Gouda, was having poledance classes. Poledancing in healthclubs - that was unheard of! (Well, early 2005 it was).
We staged a class, with friends, both poledancers and non-poledancers, and the newspaper had a full page story that following sunday, with the headline "Topsport!".
This article caused a massive email flow of girls asking which gym in their vicinity was having these classes. We had to disappoint them, because these lessons weren't taking place anywhere yet, but fortunately 3 healthclubs were among the ones that contacted us.
In these 3 (pilot) clubs we tested and adjusted the concept to the program it is to this very day.
Today, at the end of 2008, our grouplessons program is given in over 35 clubs, among which 4 universities' sportcenters in the Netherlands. In 2009 we will start looking for female instructors in other countries, that are sportive, enthousiastic and enterprising, to make the fitnesspole available in a true fitness program worldwide.
For more info on Pole fitness please visit: www.polefitness.com
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