Abbi Rennes

Training for pole has its own unique skills and challenges. Part of this challenge is navigating all the unnatural movements that pole dance requires compared to the demands of our daily life. In order to do this, it requires training for motor control - otherwise known as motor learning. WHY SHOULD INSTRUCTORS FOCUS ON MOTOR LEARNING? The point of motor learning is to enhance the smoothness, accuracy, and even the speed of a movement pattern by training the brain to make it "second nature."...

A blog post I wrote on suspension training and shoulder hypertrophy gained significant attention in the pole community, leading to an...

Prone Arm Raise w/ Rhomboid Activation Working with many clients, especially dancers or those post-rehab, reveals common threads. One is...