Hi Everyone!
Here's a little movie from our Burlesque Workshop with Rodney James on June 25th.  

Enjoy!

We are looking at having another workshop with Rodney on Friday, August 27.  

We hope you can join us again!  Mark your calendars...

It's your turn guys!  Now you can see what Pole Fitness is all about for yourself. You will be amazed what you can do from class one!  Although Pole Fitness is currently dominated by women, this sport is typically much easier for men. And, more and more men are signing up for classes around the world. Expect to get a great strength training workout; focusing on your abs, back, arms, and legs in a whole new and different way. Warning:  Men's Pole Fitness is not for whimps!

Classes will be held on Tuesday evenings. Please check the Classes Section of our website for more information, or contact us if you are interested!

Check out this male pole dancing video to see what's possible:

Wow!  The Burlesque Beat and Chair Challenge workshops sold out in a matter of THREE DAYS! We do have the option of adding two more workshops on Saturday evening. June 26th.  Please let us know if you are interested. Contact Us!

We are super excited to have Rodney James (aka Mr. Burlesque) join us in our studio for an evening of playful workshops!

Rodney is from the Fitness & Dance Institute of Australia.  He is one of Australia's most respected, passionate, and inspirational fitness instructors! Rodney was a featured dancer in the the Baz Lurhman film Moulin Rouge and has appeared with many top performing artists; including touring with Kylie Monogue.

Two workshops will be offered.  Burlesque Beat and Chair Challenge!  Feel free to take one class or join us for the entire evening and take both!  $25.00 for one / $40.00 for both!

Burlesque Beat is Rodney's trademarked group fitness program. He's taken the playful dance moves of Burlesque and formatted them into a safe and sexy workout. We think you're going to love it so much, our instructors are getting certified in order to continue teaching it.

Chair Challenge will be similar moves with choreography created around a chair. Rodney has loads of energy and enthusiasm.  Both workshops are guaranteed to be fabulous and fun-filled!

I hope you can join us!  Obviously space is limited and we only have him for one evening, so if you're interested I recommend you Register Now!

See ya at the workshop,

Cindy

Oh yeah... You can wear regular workout clothes to this or spice it up a bit and go for shorts or miniskirts (with bootie shorts) and fishnets.  For sure bring your sexy shoes... just in case you decide you want them!  It is a workshop after all, so if you want to dress up like we do for chair workshops, please do so!  Refreshments will be served.

We've got two new classes to share with you! These are designed to help you get your body fit and ready for summer.  

Bosu Blast!

This class will alternate using the  Bosu Balance Trainer with the Bosu Ballast Ball keeping this amazing workout fresh and playful.  If you haven't yet taken a Bosu Balance Trainer Class with Mindy I urge you to try it.  It's a lot of fun!  Seriously!  A great core workout... And it will really get you laughing and smiling too. Boing... Boing... Boing!

The Bosu Ballast Ball is a big round ball with sand in it, which prevents it from slipping while you're doing moves on it. It also adds a little bit of weight for a better strength training workout.  This is also a great core class, but will also strengthen your arms and legs.  

Wednesdays at 9 am.

(This class is the perfect compliment to the Pilates Dynamic Mat Class on Mondays at 9 am.)      

Intense Gravity Blast  

This class is designed to be fast and effective! It is a "fast-paced" class combining cardio and strength training using the EFI Gravity Reformers.  Instructors, Mindy and Wendy, will focus on giving you a total body workout condensed into a half hour time slot.  This is the most time-efficient, powerful and innovative body-sculping workout available!  It's guaranteed to get you in bikini shape quickly. (This is not a Pilates Reformer Class.)  

Tuesdays & Fridays 7:15-7:45 am

Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:15-12:45 pm

It's here!  It's here!

The New Pole Fitness Terminology has been released today by the Pole Fitness Association!  Now we can all begin to use the same names for our moves.  Yae!  So get ready to learn new names for a lot of the moves we've been doing!  Many will be different to us at Vertical Fitness.  

This was a group effort spearheaded by Jenyne Butterfly and the Pole Fitness Association to come up with a standardization of Pole Moves, Grips and Spins so we can all be on the same page with what move is called what.  A great big "Thank You!" goes out to all who participated to make this happen!

Cheers!

Cindy

 Kellie and I (Cindy)  just returned from SUNNY Las Vegas where we took continuing education classes with Jamilla DeVille, who was voted "Instructor of the Year" by her peers in the pole dancing/pole fitness community. Jamilla, who lives in Australia, was doing a World Tour teaching Pole Fitness Classes around the country. She is a sweetheart of an instructor and has a wonderful collection of teaching DVD's called The Art of Pole.

Although it was tempting to blow off class and go to the pool... it was 80 degrees and beautiful, which felt amazing after all the SNOW we've been getting... we made it to class and learned a lot!  We look forward to sharing our new found knowledge with our pole students!