My name is Breanna. I am 24 years old and I live in Virginia. A little bit of a back story on what urged me to start this blog. Last March I was browsing around on Youtube like i normally do when I am bored and I came across a video of a woman pole dancing. Let me tell you, when I saw it I fell in love. The way this woman was moving so gracefully while doing moves that looked so hard blew my mind. After watching that video and about 5748593 other ones i searched for the nearest local pole studio and signed up for my first class right away.
I took classes religiously for about 4 months and then I graduated beauty school and with the busyness of that and trying to land my first salon job, I stopped going. I missed it greatly but just did not have the time or the money to keep going the way I was. Shortly after starting my new job and discovering I can in fact be social with strangers I took my new found confidence and made my way out to my favorite bar and started socializing. Let me tell you, being a social butterfly is full time job. With that and dating (single life is hard!) I slowly slipped out of my semi active lifestyle into a nearly non existent active lifestyle. (by the way chugging beer is not considered a form of exercise).
For my birthday which falls on Christmas, I got my very own X-Pole. I opened up the box and stared at the pieces in all their beauty. I couldn't wait to get it set up and once i did I jumped right one and played around. I realized how out of shape I was and wasn't really doing the amount of work I should to get back to where I was. And after an incident where my pole came loose and came crashing down and putting a giant crack in my bedroom wall, I neglected the pole like it was a predator out to kill me. I signed up for a few more pole classes and only ended up going to one of them because I realized how much I didn't like the style of teaching that the instructors do. Now don't get me wrong. Every single one of the instructors are brilliant, inspiring women with strength and grace and talent I can only hope to have one day. But what drew me to pole in the first place was the aerial part and the gymnast part of it, not the sexual side. And while its always great to encourage a woman to feel sexy, that's not my style. At least not yet.
Anyways, I decided yesterday was the day I get back on the pole and back into some kind of workout routine. I just recently purchased a laptop and decided to use the camera to record some of the stuff I can still do that I learned in class and when I went back to watch it, holy hell did I look fat. I was so disgusted with myself that I deleted it right there on the spot. I felt really discouraged and took my frustrations and sadness to StudioVeena, which is an awesome place by the way. If you're learning pole yourself Veena does amazing lessons and the community on there is so awesome and supportive. And its not that expensive! So I told all the wonderful people in the discussion forums about my body issues and they lifted me up so much! So today, I worked out again and decided to try working on my pole sit and elbow stand. Now if you have done pole dancing, you remember how much doing a pole sit BURNS your thighs. I felt like the skin on my thighs were peeling off. I know that will get better with time and practice and I just need to push through it.
I had a lot more success with my elbow stand however. When I was in the studio it was one of the things I just could not get. I could not for the life of me get my shoulders to round out and abs tight to support my head so it wasn't being pushed into the ground. Well ladies and gents, tonight I got it. And I also recorded it. After editing the crap out of the lighting I was able to make myself look skinny enough to feel comfortable posting it to Youtube.
So basically, if you have made it this far into my mini novel, I assume you have made an assumption of this blog and what it will be. Hopefully your assumptions are that I am somewhat an interesting person and you are willing to stick with me through my pole & fitness journey.
Peace, love & pole hugs.
- B
