KT Coates has been pole dancing for
over 13 years. She has worked all over the world as a pole dancer, show girl and Vertical Dance™
Instructor. KT is Ranked one of the top pole dancers and instructors the
world, teaching pole fitness instructors and students from the UK, USA, France,
Iceland, Canada, Holland, Italy, Portugal and many more.
KT has been heavily involved in
sports from a young age, representing the east of England in netball
and the county in hockey and athletics. She
gained a BTEC National Diploma in sports studies, a CYQ exercise to
music qualification, NCFE in Vertical Dance, a First Aid
Certificate, Pole Dancing Public liability Insurance and full membership to the Register
of Exercise Professionals. More recently she has become a certified group
exercise instructor with Americas top fitness governing body ACE, and has
become a level 3 instructor in pre and post natal fitness with REPS
She has worked tirelessly to achieve recognition for pole dance as a reputable
form of group fitness and provide the industry with standards and guidelines,
resulting in the world's first instructors qualification in Vertical Dance.
Leisure Industry Week saw the first of
many presentations on Vertical Fitness from KT, she has also
presented at Fit Camp in November 2007 and embarked on a workshop
tour of the USA in July 2007. KT also performed and instructed in
both Singapore and Malaysia in 2008.
KT is most proud of her series of Vertical Dance Workout DVDs that
launched in September 07. She wrote and directed the DVDs.
Katie has a close relationship with
X-Pole, helping to test and improve the product to its full
potential.
She is currently the face of X-Pole and presents the Instructional
DVD that accompanies the pole.
In
2008 KT took part in the new series of Gladiators. She beat 20,000 hopefuls to win one of 16 places on the
show. She got through to the quarter finals winning a place in the
Gladiator hall of fame for her unmatched performance on hang tough,
she beat both gladiators Tempest and Battle Axe managing to complete
the course.
It was one of the most amazing experiences of her life and she feels
honoured to have been part of the show.
KT took part in the BNBF (British Natural Bodybuilding Federation)
Figure competition in July 2008 for the first time. She won both the
competition and won best presentation, this qualified her to enter
the British finals on October 2008. KT found out that she was
pregnant a month before the finals so she could not commit as fully
to the training and diet as she would have liked, but at 2 months
pregnant she came a very respectable 4th in Britain. She just hope
that she will get her six pack back once she has her first child at
the end of May 2009.
A Spin a Day Keeps the
Doctor Away!!!!
