Pole dance conditioning is a pole dancer’s workout that helps them achieve the strength they need to continue working towards their goal moves. The more advanced the pole trick is, the more strength or flexibility it might need to look clean, graceful, and smooth.
These conditioning exercises for dancers may seem simple; strengthening your calves, increasing your foot arch flexibility – or it can be as mainstream as building general upper body strength at a gym. Especially as you begin learning inverted moves, it becomes more and more important that you can physically hold your body weight up reliably and efficiently.
While flexibility is focused on making clean and pretty lines, it is also essential to achieving many moves, and helping ensure your muscles don’t over-stretch by trying to achieve these moves too early.
If you can’t reliably hold your own body weight, then rush into a move using momentum – such as kicking up into an invert – you’re likely to put an inordinate amount of strain or torque on your body; something it’s not ready to handle yet. Conditioning helps your body by strengthening it and make it more flexible through a series of often repetitive, dynamic movements. Conditioning exercises for dancers are meant to lightly but consistently push your limits, raising the threshold for your strength and flexibility alike.
There are several strength conditioning exercises that will help you achieve your pole goals. In this section, you’ll find pole conditioning exercises that you can do at home, whether you have a home pole or not.
Pole dancing is a dynamic aerial sport, which means a pole dancer’s workout should incorporate dynamic training. Relying on just static stretching won’t give you the results you need – you’ll have to work with passive and active flexibility to achieve your goals!
In the world of pole, flexibility can be just as important as strength. Unfortunately, it’s not as well discussed as it should be. In today’s article, we discuss active VS. passive stretches and flexibility, helping you understand the differences and how each one...
