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What girls could all learn from strippers...

  • 04-03-2006 08:54PM
    #1
    t-ha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭


    Somebody linked to this on another forum: http://www.stripper-faq.org. Pretty self-explanatory what the site is about. Just thought it was amusing that the advice given there was probably better than most info women are generally given about getting in shape.

    The most effective weight training exercises for woman are squats, lunges and stiff-leg or sumo deadlifts. None of these lifts should be done on machines- free weights only. Machines are no where near as effective. Train heavy and train hard. Yoga and dancing are both very catabolic activities (they break down muscle tissue) you will not get bulky.

    I use the following:
    Squats 3 sets of 20 reps, 120 seconds rest between sets.
    Stiff-leg deadlifts 3 sets of 10 reps, 120 seconds rest between sets.
    Rest 5 minutes
    Dumbbell lunges 4 sets of 12 reps, 90 seconds rest between sets
    Hanging crunches 4 sets 90 seconds rest between sets

    The squats should be to failure, it should be VERY hard to hit 20. Like having a baby hard. Squats will make a bigger change in your physique then anything else. When you do your yoga and running do it in the morning on an empty stomach. If you have a real fat problem an hour of running or jump rope a day before breakfast with a low/no carb diet can take of a lot of fat in a short period of time.

    ...

    Different diets work for different people. Regardless of what you choose it has to be something you can stay on permanently. You can't just diet when you think your getting fat, as a dancer you have to maintain a consistantly low level of bodyfat. For me carbs are the problem. The only real carb heavy meal I eat is breakfast, I usually have a bowl of cereal or hot oatmeal. Then with lunch slightly less, usually just a sandwich with some whole wheat bread. For dinner almost none, a very small scoop of rice or vegetables with a small steak or chicken breast. I avoid salad, pasta and other high-carb meals. I occasionally eat fried chicken or hamburgers, I just keep the portions very small and try to eat it early in the day. Avoid low-fat foods or at least read the labels carefully, they tend to have a lot of sugar and nothing gets you fat faster than sugar- not even fat. I also try and break my meals down into several small ones. If it's a sandwich or something I eat one half then and one half an hour or two later- this helps you metabolize your food better.


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  • #2
    g'em
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,819 ✭✭✭✭g'em


    t-ha wrote:
    Like having a baby hard.
    a pain only a woman can even begin to fathom :(... I think I'm quite happy to put off that particular sensation for another squillion years.

    It's pretty sound advice tbh. I love your 'somebody' explanation of where you found the site.. so original ;)


  • #3
    amazingemmet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,057 ✭✭✭amazingemmet


    And here's me thinking the advice was gonna be "guilible men will pay you to take off your clothes and its an easy way to make money". Any pics?


  • #4
    t-ha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭t-ha


    amazingemmet wrote:
    And here's me thinking the advice was gonna be "guilible men will pay you to take off your clothes and its an easy way to make money". Any pics?
    Ask and though shalt recieve...


    ...err somebody posted that too... em... on a ...forum.


  • #5
    amazingemmet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,057 ✭✭✭amazingemmet


    That really made my day t-ha, I think you just crashed my t-levels. *wanders off to find some proper slydice specials*


  • #6
    metrovelvet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,376 ✭✭✭metrovelvet


    This is nothing new to anyone who dances, whether ballet, modern, jazz or stripper dance. There are no better people to strategise keeping nice shape than dancers.

    She forgot to mention one very crucial thing - WATER, and lots of it. And that program is pretty mild compared to the preps in most dance classes tbh.

    Do you actually lose anything in yoga unless it's ashtanga?


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  • #7
    amazingemmet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,057 ✭✭✭amazingemmet


    metrovelvet wrote:
    And that program is pretty mild compared to the preps in most dance classes tbh.

    What dances classes are you doing? as that workout is well harder then the preps in my old ballet classes.


  • #8
    metrovelvet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,376 ✭✭✭metrovelvet


    Dance has changed in the past 10 years and fitness is a very strong part of the studio. IF you look at ballet dancers now [at least in the US] they are cut.

    I take jazz/street funk & lyrical and we have quite the workout as this dance requires stamina, muscle power, balance, coordination etc... so there is a strong mix of dance fitness before you even start dancing.

    WHen i took ballet growing up, it wasnt in the ethos, but it very much is now in contemporary dance.

    You should try the NYC ballet workout on dvd if you're used to to ballet. I for one prefer jazz because its relationship with the hips is more liberated. But its quite a transition to make from ballet which is rational, logical and sequential to jazz which is not at all like that.

    Excuse my spelling, I am very hungover today.


  • #9
    amazingemmet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,057 ✭✭✭amazingemmet


    I was doing them til last year so wasn't that long ago, i agree that dancers are more cut but that was always the case with the higher up dancers as opposed to the saturday afternoon dancers.


  • #10
    metrovelvet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,376 ✭✭✭metrovelvet


    Im in NYC so it may be different here. Its spreading down to more than the upper echalon of dancers. To the three- four times a week dancers.

    In ballet classes you dont get what you do in jazz in terms of fitness[pushups. crunches, etc etc] but you see ballet dancers a lot in cardiobarre and in jazz sometimes for it. I dont take ashtanga but I would imagine they are in there too. When I go back to ballet, the odd pro will be in the class and these women are not like the ballerinas we used to see. Especially since ballet has more than its strict classical forms and has evolved into realms where it requires more muscle power depending on the chorographer/company.


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