Any aerialist out there?
shepnic72
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Hey everyone ... looking for fellow aerialists who are out there doing their thing!!
Do you struggle with your weight but yet love to hang upside down for fun? I have reached a mental block when it comes to inverting my booty just doesnt want to go above my head! Any tips?
Looking forward to chatting with you all. 😀
Do you struggle with your weight but yet love to hang upside down for fun? I have reached a mental block when it comes to inverting my booty just doesnt want to go above my head! Any tips?
Looking forward to chatting with you all. 😀
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Not an aerialist, but this is something I want to try very badly.2
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I am a wannabe aerialist. I train of Lyra once a week and Trapeze and Silks as well as a lot of handstand and flexibility classes plus Adult ballet classes just to round it out. Haha all that sounds like I am really proficient at it but I only do it as I am beginner who wants to move past the sucking stage.
My biggest tip for learning to do straddle inversions is to lie on floor and practice getting your hips and legs up this way.4 -
A huge forum like this and only 3 of us!! How disappointing!
@TiisTitanium where are you located? Im in Canada.1 -
There's plenty more. @mbaker566 , @Mouse_Potato, @BekahBeast @wezreeeee77
When I started aerial, I had NO strength. I injured my serratus anterior trying to invert before I was really ready. I took a break and concentrated on lifting weights and built up my core and lats. All of the sudden, inversions and climbs were easy.3 -
do Plow to help get the hips over and learn to engage the right muscles in the right order
i teach aerial yoga including advanced-ish that looks more like circus hammock. i play on the lyra but am just self taught. started aerial yoga on a bet. bet 5 bucks i'd hate it. i lost five bucks
i still can't climb. lots of have tried to teach me. i fail.
doooo iiiiiit @kcs763 -
I've just started with parkour. Does that count? It does involve some air, dangling, and jumping off things. And I'm having a ball
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I'd love to do Parkour, but you know....on low things. LOL1
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Not an aerialist but I do adagio on the ground, and have dabbled on a Lyra a fair bit!
I would love to do more but we live in a much smaller place now and it is just not available here - so for now just adagio 0 -
I am an aerialist as @mom23manos mentioned. I mostly do pole these days as silks is really hard on my joints. I was very weak when I first started, but I also took up weightlifting and now I can invert all day long. I even got my first Iron-X a few months back!3
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Yes this is awesome!!! And YES parkour def counts! My son is big into parkour 😀
Thanks for the tip in using plow pose to help get my hips over my head. This is one of the things i struggle hard with and climbing too!!! UGH why is it so hard to get. I teach pole beginner and advanced ... i can teach my students anything but dam if my brain cant figure out this climbing thing.
Currently i am in recovery mode from a fall from the hammock that i didnt tieboff properly and it dropped me right out onto the floor. I am mostly self taught for pole but have a friend who has been teaching my lyra and hammock. I love lyra dabble in hammock.
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I’d love to try as I lose more weight and get stronger, but I haven’t seen any classes in my area.0
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snemberton wrote: »I’d love to try as I lose more weight and get stronger, but I haven’t seen any classes in my area.
Its super fun i hope you can find a class ... please dont let your weight stop you. We have a curvy girl class in our studio 😀0 -
It’s more that my noodle appendages are still struggling with some of my body weight exercises. Once I keep up with my strength training a little longer and drop another 15lbs, I’ll feel like I have less chance of injuring myself or something. Our small town isn’t likely to catch onto the trend anytime soon either. Yoga and CrossFit are still the big deals here.snemberton wrote: »I’d love to try as I lose more weight and get stronger, but I haven’t seen any classes in my area.
Its super fun i hope you can find a class ... please dont let your weight stop you. We have a curvy girl class in our studio 😀
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mom23mangos wrote: »I'd love to do Parkour, but you know....on low things. LOL
Why not? I'm somewhat scared of heights. Just do what you're comfortable with.1 -
Yes this is awesome!!! And YES parkour def counts! My son is big into parkour 😀
Thanks for the tip in using plow pose to help get my hips over my head. This is one of the things i struggle hard with and climbing too!!! UGH why is it so hard to get. I teach pole beginner and advanced ... i can teach my students anything but dam if my brain cant figure out this climbing thing.
Currently i am in recovery mode from a fall from the hammock that i didnt tieboff properly and it dropped me right out onto the floor. I am mostly self taught for pole but have a friend who has been teaching my lyra and hammock. I love lyra dabble in hammock.
Thanks a lot! I do notice that I lack strength for it. Doing different dangly things for an hour is very tough for me. But I'm also doing some extra exercises, preparing for more hangs, things like L-sit, handstand, etc. Still far from getting anywhere though.1 -
Nice to see all the aerialist peeps chiming in. I wish more people would get into it as not only is a great way to exercise, you make awesome friends which is sometimes difficult to achieve in other fitness environments.
Plow was exactly the move I was trying to describe -I am highly technical/helpful in my descriptions..
The only downside (aside from being highly addictive and then the classes take all your spare money) is that it does tend to create big shoulders/lats which sometimes is not compatible with women's clothing.
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lol @TiisTitanium i already had big shoulders and upper arms so nothing new for me
this thread reminded me of this
i couldn't touch my toes when i started5 -
lol @TiisTitanium i already had big shoulders and upper arms so nothing new for me
this thread reminded me of this
i couldn't touch my toes when i started
Love this! Yep, since doing parkour my upper body strength has improved. Mind you, the last class was not what I was expecting. The day before I'd done core workouts because I thought parkour would mostly be jumping and dangling again. Turned out it was 90 minutes of balancing, with throwing balls, and carrying weight disks, an olympic bar or car tires. My core wasn't quite convinced by that. It was good fun though. 3 -
mom23mangos wrote: »I'd love to do Parkour, but you know....on low things. LOL
Why not? I'm somewhat scared of heights. Just do what you're comfortable with.
Because I don't feel like risking dying jumping across rooftops. 😂1 -
I was wondering that too! As a musician, I just think of a slow part of a song when I hear that.Mouse_Potato wrote: »I am an aerialist as @mom23manos mentioned. I mostly do pole these days as silks is really hard on my joints. I was very weak when I first started, but I also took up weightlifting and now I can invert all day long. I even got my first Iron-X a few months back!
Mouse_Potato just won a pole competition with a stunning piece!lol @TiisTitanium i already had big shoulders and upper arms so nothing new for me
this thread reminded me of this
That is hilarious.1 -
TiisTitanium wrote: »Nice to see all the aerialist peeps chiming in. I wish more people would get into it as not only is a great way to exercise, you make awesome friends which is sometimes difficult to achieve in other fitness environments.
Plow was exactly the move I was trying to describe -I am highly technical/helpful in my descriptions..
The only downside (aside from being highly addictive and then the classes take all your spare money) is that it does tend to create big shoulders/lats which sometimes is not compatible with women's clothing.
OMG right!!! I live in tank tops spring summer winter fall lol Its crazy!
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omg. Aerialist workouts look like so much fun! I need to branch out from the boring *kitten* elliptical. 😩0
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Jeebus.... we can't cuss here? 😂1
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valleyGRLvanny wrote: »Jeebus.... we can't cuss here? 😂
Nope, it's all sunshine and daisies here at MFP2 -
OMG! I've been trying for ages to learn proper pushups and pullups, and always failed (there's always a long break between periods of where I work out, so I effectively always start from zero). I have a fantasy dream: to be able to do handstands and L-sit. For that I do a few exercises nearly every day:plank, side plank, reverse plank, L-sit exercise, active hanging (shoulder blades together), pushing up from kitchen worktop corner, handstand against door. And after just two weeks I can do proper pushups, and my pullup efforts have improved as well! Wow!2
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TiisTitanium wrote: »Nice to see all the aerialist peeps chiming in. I wish more people would get into it as not only is a great way to exercise, you make awesome friends which is sometimes difficult to achieve in other fitness environments.
Plow was exactly the move I was trying to describe -I am highly technical/helpful in my descriptions..
The only downside (aside from being highly addictive and then the classes take all your spare money) is that it does tend to create big shoulders/lats which sometimes is not compatible with women's clothing.
Okay, this is funny. I just now figured out why so many tops are tight through the bust! I don't have particularly large breasts, but most women's shirts ride up over them. Its my lats, isn't it? 2 -
Mouse_Potato wrote: »TiisTitanium wrote: »Nice to see all the aerialist peeps chiming in. I wish more people would get into it as not only is a great way to exercise, you make awesome friends which is sometimes difficult to achieve in other fitness environments.
Plow was exactly the move I was trying to describe -I am highly technical/helpful in my descriptions..
The only downside (aside from being highly addictive and then the classes take all your spare money) is that it does tend to create big shoulders/lats which sometimes is not compatible with women's clothing.
Okay, this is funny. I just now figured out why so many tops are tight through the bust! I don't have particularly large breasts, but most women's shirts ride up over them. Its my lats, isn't it?
So wait... chances are women on this thread wear tank tops because they NEED to?
In!
Seriously though, it looks like some good all around body workout. I've seen some of the comments and photos from @mbaker566 in the past and it's some interesting balance and strength stuff. No surprise that it takes some upper body muscle, I remember commenting on that after being at a concert that had some areilists performing as part of the stage show. I might have to look at some parkour type stuff since maybe my thought train is off.... I'm not seeing the same relationship other than the balance part. But I must have one or the other all wrong.
It seems like it would be a fairly well balanced workout, and with the creative side added, some fun.0 -
@robertw486 - you should give it a try. It is a fantastic upper body workout. My son has been doing it for 4 years now and is crazy strong. He's lucky that he has a male role model in his instructor. It'd be nice to see more males doing it.2
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