In my 20 years of experience, I have found that when preparing for a fitness or bodybuilding show, people underestimate five major things:
1. You are not just posing, you are performing for an audience.
2. How much time it really takes to become good at posing and stage performance (and that it should be done year-round, and not an after thought).
3. Posing and performing require specific skill development beyond just the literal mechanics of poses. These fundamental skills aren't taught by anyone else (how do I know? Because I created them).
4. Without guidance you are likely to practice the wrong things, and won't know what to do about it; and,
5. How important it is to practice under pressure to be fully prepared on show day.
In bodybuilding federations, the first thing the judges evaluate is how proportioned and balanced your physique is (or how disproportioned your are, if you are in the Wellness category). The head judge will spin you around from front to back with either a series of quarter turns or half turns to evaluate your structure.
If you are in the women's physique, classic physique, or the bodybuilding divisions, you will also have a series of muscularity poses to do.
It is up to you to know how to execute each and every pose in a way that showcases your physique its best.
These poses are not normal shapes and positions that we "normally" do. In fact, some require a tremendous amount of mind body connection, mobility, stability, balance, and flexibility to really do them well.
Watching a posing tutorial of someone who poses effortlessly and then trying to do the poses yourself are two different things, amIright? Especially if you lack the mind body connection, stability, balance, etc. that is needed to do them.
It's like watching a gymnast on a balance beam and then thinking you are going to hop up on that beam and be capable of doing the same thing. Like all of a sudden you've figured out the proper techniques, posture, balance, and stability on how to perform a balance beam routine in those 60 seconds you spent watching the video (you know, the skills they spent a lifetime learning and practicing). Not likely.
Most people underestimate the amount of fundamental skills you need to learn and practice regularly in order to become great at posing and stage presence. And how regularly these skills need to be practiced (you will get rusty really fast).
I have worked with HUNDREDS of clients – both men and women and many have become champions. Do you know what stands out about the ones that won shows and became professionals in the sport?
...it's the amount of time they spent doing the things that will help them master their posing skills!
And my signature fundamental skill practice will provide you the exact things you need to do to become not good, but really awesome, at posing and stage presence.
I tackle mind body connection, mobility, flexibility, stability, in every Wednesday class every week (i.e. Posing Fundamentals). I also have a class on Sundays where I provide the exact step-by-step proper execution of all poses (i.e Posing Mechanics). Come to one, or sign up for both!
Plus, with my kind of accountability, if I see something, I say something. So while you are practicing with me every week, I will suggest posing corrections while we are live. Many people are surprised how I see everything despite it being a group environment. You will not feel left out.
So if you want to learn and practice the exact skills that will help your posing and stage presence go from "meh" to awesome ...aaaaand have someone *ahem, ME* hold you accountable every week so you are better prepared for show day, then join my weekly posing classes!