El pole fitness como propuesta metodológica de entrenamiento para el desarrollo de la fuerza y la flexibilidad

Abstract

Pole Fitness is a discipline with a mixture among art and sports, it combines strength, flexibility, dance and fitness armonically where it is used a vertical metal bar with different names such as: American Bar or Pole dance. This is a discipline with its origins in the malkhamb (gimnastic bar) and the mallastamba (pole gymnastics), those instruments have been used 250 years ago to practice Yoga, but with a wood stick and a piece of rope to increase strength and muscle volume. The search for new physical activities, both men and women, has as a main goal to get reliable results that let us to watch a physical improvement. In order to that, practicing Pole fitness gives us a variety of progressive activities for toning our body from doing figures or acrobatics, big and small twists, using our own bodyweight. It will help to have more strenght and to increase flexibility.