Charlotte Robertson Interview | Journey Back To Pole | Episode #008

Welcome to Episode 8 of the Off The Pole podcast, where I talk to people from the Pole industry to help you Train Smart so you can Dance More.

This week we have Charlotte Robertson, owner of Live, Love, Bend, which provides online flexibility training and apparel.

She’s a champion pole dancer, having competed and won titles in the U.K. and abroad and runs her successful pole studio, Charlotte Robertson’s Pole and Aerial Fitness as well as teaching workshops across the globe.

We discuss her pre- and post-pregnancy pole life, what she’s found harder to overcome and tips for mum’s to be. Hope you enjoy our chat and the cameo from her lovely son Arlo!

Really hope you guys enjoy the 8th episode in the podcast series – you can subscribe to our pole podcast on iTunes to keep updated with all the latest episodes and it would mean the world to me if you could leave a review!

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Sarah:                      Welcome Charlotte Robertson to my podcast!

Charlotte:             Hello.

Sarah:                      Hello. Your internet is so good and clear and shiny. It’s actually nice to see someone for once. How are you doing my love? Thank you for taking some time. I know baby’s asleep so he might wake up but we’ll see.

Charlotte:             Fingers crossed he won’t. That’s what I’m always hoping for, more sleep.

The Journey Back to Pole

Sarah:                     I just wanted to get you to describe a little bit about your journey so far through your pregnancy and kind of getting back to pole and things like that just so people understand the timeline of when things happened/when things went down.

Charlotte:             Okay.

Sarah:                      Not like literally everything. You can cut it off at like when …

Charlotte:             There was this night … No, I’m kidding. So, it was kind of … I can’t actually remember exactly when I found out that I was pregnant last year. Some kind of time, end of February, March so similar to now. I found out that I was pregnant last year and I basically, one of my main goals while I was pregnant was to keep poling through my pregnancy. It was something I really, really wanted to try and achieve because I hadn’t seen loads of people polling but obviously like you it’s the main thing that we do so it was really important for me to try to keep up in whatever that I possibly could.

Charlotte:             I wouldn’t go too deep into the ins and outs but unfortunately we had some complications so that meant that when I went for my 12 week scan, which is when they basically give you the A-okay, like you’re definitely pregnant and everything’s okay and you can kind of continue on until you’re 20 week scan. Unfortunately, yeah, we had some complications, which meant I could have continued training but emotionally and just generally I wasn’t in a place where I really wanted to in case it caused more problems. Not that it would have done but just in your head, you want to protect your baby.

Sarah:                      You wanna be safe and just mitigate any issues that could happen.

Charlotte:             Exactly so I was quite … Obviously, I was upset because of the complications but also I then was really like, “Oh, I don’t wanna train, I don’t want to do anything,” ’cause I was really scared of hurting the baby. So I actually stopped training until I had a more in depth procedure. At 14 weeks I had that done but once I got the results from that and I got that re...