Pole Burnout

I don't know what is going on with me, but for the past few weeks, I have been in a serious funk when it comes to poling.  I haven't felt motivated at all.  No song could awaken my inner dancer, no amount of desire for learning a move could get me on the pole.

However, being the person that I am, I couldn't very well go that long without doing anything.  So, sometimes I forced myself to pole, which I hate doing, because I can feel it being shitty, and not coming from a place of enjoyment.  So, I decided to step away for a bit. (calm down, I'm talking like a week, ahhaha)

I think it's normal to have a burnout on something you do every.single.day rain or shine, without fail.  Eventually you just kinda wake up and go, meh.  And I love pole, so I knew I needed to get away for a bit, I needed to find that love and desire.

I couldn't allow myself to be completely void of exercise though, and I've never been much for the dvd version of cardio. 

So, I hit up my back room and decided to jump on the treadmill.  Jam out to my pole tunes and hit my feet on the treadmill in some old school cardio. 

Before I started poling, I was doing the treadmill.  I do enjoy my time on there, in a different way than I love pole though.  But before I started poling, I wasn't great.  I walked a mile in 20 minutes.  I was huffing it at 3.3 mph.  A bit depressing.

Well I got up on the treadmill a week ago and started out.  2mph warm up, turned out it was extremely easy....jumped up to 3.  Stayed there for 5 minutes and then jumped into it.  I felt awesome.  I went between a 4, 5, and 6 mph bursts.  Every 10 minutes I did a set of 15 pushups.  I did 2 miles in less than 30 minutes.  I had sweat pouring down all over, my legs were on fire.  And somewhere in that I started to really enjoy my songs again. 

I couldn't have imagined doing that before I was poling.  Noticing that change in my ability to do cardio made me smile.

Then I went back the next day, and the day after and did it all over again.  Increasing my sprint time by 30 seconds each time.  Yesterday I was running for a  full 2 minutes at a time at 6mph. 


I'm also going to check out the pole studio next weekend and to officially sign up for classes.  I'm not sure if I am going to have to start in a beginner level or if they will allow me to jump in at the intermediate class, but either way, I am beyond excited that I'll be starting a class!  I'll be able to go twice a week if I want, or I can go to just a weekly class. 

I know that the class will help get me out of my burnout mode, but the treadmill is helping as well.  Yesterday I was even thinking of pole routines when songs came on :D