Pole Dancing Blog - Tips, Guides & Insights from Altitude

Pole dance and fitness is a unique and engaging form of exercise that can provide a heap of benefits for your flexibility, mobility, and overall health 🤩 You can dance your way to surpassing your goals in a welcoming, supportive environment - and have a blast doing it! Here are six ways that pole fitness can improve your physical well-being...

This blog was written by one of our Altitude Pole Nelson students, Milo, on how he has found peace with himself, body and soul during his pole dance journey.

Confidence - for some, it comes as naturally as breathing, but for most of us, it's a constant changing journey. Some days you wake up and feel on top of the world, on other days it can be a struggle just to step out in public.

Let’s be honest - there are a lot more women who pole dance than there are men at the moment. While gender is no issue in studio (we love all our pole dancers equally), there are definitely some extra challenges to being a male in a female dominated sport #wheredoIevenbuyshortsthatshort

Wondering what it feels like to perform in a showcase? Read this blog as we spill the tea on what showcase night feels like for our performers!

This blog was written by one of our Altitude Pole Palmerston North students, Natalie. Read below on how she has become empowered, sensual and strong through the love of pole dance.

Thinking about trying Pole Dance for the first time? Well you are full of great ideas and this is definitely one of your best!!

We were lucky enough Elle, from Elle Catraz Photography, was keen to write us her top 5 tips to nailing your pole or aerials photoshoot! She's snapped her way through Altitude studios over the last few years and has produced some AH-MAZING photos of our stunning students and instructors. You'll probably spot her work all over the place if you look close enough (we definitely use her photos a lot! ❤️❤️)!

We’d love to introduce you to some of our badass male polers ('cause pole is absolutely for guys too!). So sit back, relax and get ready for our newest series of blogs 'Guys & pole'… showcasing some of our Male Altitudians! 🤩

As pole dancers, we are all used to hearing people say ‘I’d love to try pole dancing, but I’m not strong enough’, or ‘Would I have to wear heels?’, or ‘I don’t know if I could take all my clothes off’. Well, we are here to tell you that you are strong enough, you don’t have to wear heels, and we do in fact wear clothes (we are NOT a nudist colony!). But let’s knock these myths and questions out one by one!

Read a little bit about one of our Onehunga students, Amie, and her journey with Altitude!

This blog was written by one of our members, Krystal, about her journey with pole dance

This blog was written by one of our members, Noelle, about her journey with pole...

This blog was written by Bex, one of our amazing members ♥

This blog was written by Kate, one of our awesome members

This blog was written by one of our members, Sheridan, about her journey with pole dancing at Altitude

Andrew is our August student of the month and an awesome member of the studio. He works hard, is determined to get things and always gives things a try. We asked him to tell us his Altitude story, here is what he said.

Having talked to many women and men throughout my journey as a pole dancer, both student and teacher, the answer to this question is YES! 100 percent, you can indeed get too sexy just from doing pole dancing.