i’ve been getting so obsessive about training that i’ve created an excel to track the my various exercise activities on a daily, weekly, rolling 4-week basis (this was several months back)
the total sums up the following activities: poling, climbing, pilates, belly dancing, stretching, tracy anderson workout, cardio
i don’t do all the activities every week of course – it’s just too much work.
for example, i haven’t climbed in several months, but that’s still on the agenda, once my climbing partners are back and i start spending weekends in london again (from mid july to the first week of september, i will be out of town all weekends bar one)

now, i’m going another step further. i’m going to create a pole blog / journal / diary, to note down the moves i’ve learnt, the moves i’ve practiced and the conditioning exercises i’ve done etc. i may include details on my other training (almost all of which i have started because i wanted my pole dancing to improve). my fellow poler-in-crime has a pretty physical pole journal (an unlined bound notebook). but i’ve decided to go digital because i may post some pictures too, just to see my progress ad hopefully cheer myself up. it’s easier to check my form when there’s a photo. and it will hopefully serve as a pick-me-up for me to see how far i’ve progressed on my pole journey when i’m feeling discouraged and stuck in a rut.

anyway, i’ve just installed the wordpress blog: eitoile.com/polejourney