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Samantha Star Interview | Strength, Flexibility and Handstands | Episode #003
Episode #3 of the Off The Pole Podcast features the immensely talented Samantha Star: cat-whisperer, handstand extraordinaire and lover of avocado art…
This interview was recorded back in July 2017, so some of the events mentioned have already occurred.
Really hope you guys enjoy the 3rd 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!
Hit play above or read the transcript below. You can also check out the video version at the Off The Pole Youtube channel.
Sarah: Welcome, Samantha, thank you for you doing my podcast!
Samantha: Hi. Yay, I’m excited.
Sarah: All the way from New York. You’re actually at home for once!
Samantha: I am, I know. For ten minutes…
Sarah: Have you just come back from anywhere? Or are you going off somewhere?
Samantha: I was just in Ireland for the Power to the Pole Camp with Terry and Michael. It was so much fun. I’m actually going to go be a student at Nadia’s Insight Movement camp in Seoul, in Korea, next month. I’m really excited.
Sarah: Nice. Yes. It’s rare that we get to be students, though.
Samantha: I know. This is one of the new things for me this year is that I’m trying to find more time to go to workshops, go to classes, and soak in more information.
Sarah: I need to do that also. I want to do the Bali camps and things. I want to go somewhere hot as an excuse to just go learn stuff. That sounds awesome.
I normally post (in the OTP Facebook Group) who I’m going to have on the podcast, and then I get an influx of questions. A lot of people just want to know what an average training week looks like for you, because you post a lot of videos, a lot of them are conditioning videos and at CrossFit gyms and handstands and all that stuff. Do you have a split of your training? Do you structure it? Or is it just freestyle?
Samantha: I am kind of a hot mess… I actually don’t structure anything or have any real set goals. For me, it depends on what’s going on in my life. Right now, this year, I am not competing at all because I kinda needed a break from it, so I’ve kinda just had more time to play and continue to do things that I find enjoyable and fun, and kind of just maintain what I’ve gained as far as strength and skillsets go.
It depends I feel like on what’s going on in my week at the studio, and then I kind of, depending on how much energy I have left, will depend on how much I end up working out. Also, who’s in town and what’s going on, and things like that.
I generally work at Body and Pole Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday are when my classes are. But then depending on if I pick up a shift, or if a training is happening, or something like that goes on, I may end up having to be there more. I recently, oh, it’s probably been actually almost a year. I’m the department head for cross-training and flexibility there, so sometimes I have to do more admin type work. This week we’re doing a ring thing, a power monkey ring thing certification training for a class that we teach at the studio called Ring Thing, which is a gymnastics apparatus that is a harness waist belt that’s connected to pulley systems and gymnastic rings so it takes half your body weight so you can learn how to do pull-ups or muscles ups or front levers.
Sarah: Oh, nice.
Samantha: It’s a really, really fun cross-training class, so there goes my Wednesday and Thursday to do this training, which is awesome, but then I don’t get to do my own personal training based o...
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By Sarah ScottEpisode #3 of the Off The Pole Podcast features the immensely talented Samantha Star: cat-whisperer, handstand extraordinaire and lover of avocado art…
This interview was recorded back in July 2017, so some of the events mentioned have already occurred.
Really hope you guys enjoy the 3rd 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!
Hit play above or read the transcript below. You can also check out the video version at the Off The Pole Youtube channel.
Sarah: Welcome, Samantha, thank you for you doing my podcast!
Samantha: Hi. Yay, I’m excited.
Sarah: All the way from New York. You’re actually at home for once!
Samantha: I am, I know. For ten minutes…
Sarah: Have you just come back from anywhere? Or are you going off somewhere?
Samantha: I was just in Ireland for the Power to the Pole Camp with Terry and Michael. It was so much fun. I’m actually going to go be a student at Nadia’s Insight Movement camp in Seoul, in Korea, next month. I’m really excited.
Sarah: Nice. Yes. It’s rare that we get to be students, though.
Samantha: I know. This is one of the new things for me this year is that I’m trying to find more time to go to workshops, go to classes, and soak in more information.
Sarah: I need to do that also. I want to do the Bali camps and things. I want to go somewhere hot as an excuse to just go learn stuff. That sounds awesome.
I normally post (in the OTP Facebook Group) who I’m going to have on the podcast, and then I get an influx of questions. A lot of people just want to know what an average training week looks like for you, because you post a lot of videos, a lot of them are conditioning videos and at CrossFit gyms and handstands and all that stuff. Do you have a split of your training? Do you structure it? Or is it just freestyle?
Samantha: I am kind of a hot mess… I actually don’t structure anything or have any real set goals. For me, it depends on what’s going on in my life. Right now, this year, I am not competing at all because I kinda needed a break from it, so I’ve kinda just had more time to play and continue to do things that I find enjoyable and fun, and kind of just maintain what I’ve gained as far as strength and skillsets go.
It depends I feel like on what’s going on in my week at the studio, and then I kind of, depending on how much energy I have left, will depend on how much I end up working out. Also, who’s in town and what’s going on, and things like that.
I generally work at Body and Pole Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday are when my classes are. But then depending on if I pick up a shift, or if a training is happening, or something like that goes on, I may end up having to be there more. I recently, oh, it’s probably been actually almost a year. I’m the department head for cross-training and flexibility there, so sometimes I have to do more admin type work. This week we’re doing a ring thing, a power monkey ring thing certification training for a class that we teach at the studio called Ring Thing, which is a gymnastics apparatus that is a harness waist belt that’s connected to pulley systems and gymnastic rings so it takes half your body weight so you can learn how to do pull-ups or muscles ups or front levers.
Sarah: Oh, nice.
Samantha: It’s a really, really fun cross-training class, so there goes my Wednesday and Thursday to do this training, which is awesome, but then I don’t get to do my own personal training based o...