Pole fitness, the ultimate workout for modern-day women

Nicole Beerens, winner of the 2011 Pole fitness Challenge

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Poster Pole fitness Challenge 2011

2010-12-26T06:14:00.000-08:00

Pole fitness Championships

2009-09-10T06:20:00.001-07:00

The official Pole fitness championships, The "Pole fitness Challenge" will be held on Nov. 29 in Venlo, The Netherlands. The Challenge is open to every woman training Pole fitness. For international competitors, the hotel is paid for by the organisation.
For more details on how to enter, please contact denise@polefitness.com.

New!!! The POWERPOLE

2009-06-17T11:27:00.000-07:00

The fitnessbar designed and produced in close cooperation with polefitness.com and former pole champion Denise Mulder.
Check it out at www.polefitness.nl

Screenshots of promoclip

2009-04-05T00:15:00.000-07:00

Pole fitness photoshoot

2009-02-24T08:20:00.001-08:00

On February 14 we did a photoshoot with our favourite photographer Michiel Zijp, who also made the pics for www.polefitness.com.
I'm not in the vid myself since I was the one filming. Hope you like it!

Trailer Essemtial Pole fitness DVD

2009-01-27T07:06:00.000-08:00

Trailer of the Essential Pole fitness DVD. On this DVD you will find 14 pole techniques, the first gogo-aerobics choreography and a thorough warm up and cool down. The fitness program that is spreading like wildfire in healthclubs throughout Europe is available to you now! Train strength, cardio, flexibility and have fun working out at home with this instructional DVD!

Pole fitness championships

2008-12-19T01:58:00.001-08:00

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.

Pole fitness on the Beach!

2008-12-08T02:33:00.000-08:00

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

2008-12-08T02:26:00.000-08:00

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.

The Pole fitness concept

2008-12-08T01:50:00.000-08:00

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