To lift, or not to lift...
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Okay, I think I scrubbed my photobucket a while back, so this is the best I can do. I wasn't at my highest weight here, nor was I at my lowest weight, but probably a happy medium. If I could get BACK to this point, I would be thrilled, because it's about where I want to be. Disregard the lame pose because it was a posing pic for the figure comp I was prepping for. I guess it's just a matter of adding more leg work in and using the pole as my primary upper body/back workout. I think I need to up the cardio a bit, too, but we'll see how the extra weights/calorie reduction does in the meantime. Thanks for your help! <a href="http://s41.beta.photobucket.com/user/sarabethers/media/HPIM0666.jpg.html"; target="_blank"><img src="http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e269/sarabethers/HPIM0666.jpg"; border="0" alt="Photobucket"/></a>
Looks like you have some nice quads going there, Hard to tell much else by that photo. Id say you have a good base at least, but take off the fat and do some heavy lifting and hope that muscle memory kicks in.
You can make pole into a cardio workout too, just freestyle and keep moving instead of working on tricks only. Put on some high-paced music and just go! That's the nice thing about pole, it's pretty versatile. You get out of it what you put into it. I have a scale at home that *supposedly* calculates your body fat and water percentage. For the past at least six months (I wasn't weighing in regularly before that) it's been telling me my body fat percentage is 16.9% and water was 56.6% (some tiny variations here or there; my fat this morning was 17.1% for the first time in forever). I am 5'5" and 170lbs give or take a couple. So that measurement seems ... off to me. Even looking at me I feel I'm more than 17% fat - mostly in my chest! Buuuuuut I'm too cheap to shell out for a better measurer.
Nothing you can buy at home, sans calipers would get you anything in the ballpark for the most part. You need to find a local gym or university that has a bod pod OR hydrostatic water testing.
Thanks to you all, I spent an hour at the gym lifting and doing cardio. One day down, gotta be consistent.
