Pole dancing exercise classes

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sorry

I used to do pole dancing (for exercise) before having DD. I even had a pole (which I sold to buy a cot haha.)

It was an all female class and it was the best fun i've ever had, not to mention extremely hard work! You only had to look at the instructor (tbf an ex stripper) who was about 50 but had the body o a 20 something year old to know that it worked.

what about adult gymnastics or crossfit or something like that?

This thread will become very polarised (see what I did there), they always do

"Pole dancing as exercise" is an absolute triumph of choicey, empowerfulising bollocks designed to make women look very silly indeed in the face of their own objectification.

Please use your brain, and not your manpleasing shimmy.

I would rather do gymnastics I think, everything about pole dancing seems so grim. Do you have to do it wear high heels too? Maybe in about a million years when everything else has evened out between the sexes.

As Ryan Gosling's character said in Crazy Stupid Love: "The war between the sexes is over. We won the second women started doing pole dancing for exercise."

Oh and yes, no need to worry about being heavier - plenty of bigger women do pole.

I don't particularly like the "gyrating round a pole" aspect, but the more acrobatic elements are great. Not sure how much you'd learn of that just from a taster class, but you'll never know if you don't go. On the other hand, if nothing about it appeals, I wouldn't bother. I know that I wouldn't enjoy paintballing so there's little point in me going on a paintballing weekend. Just depends on your interests.

It's fantastic fun. It was a fab girly atmosphere and it was more like learning a form of gymnastics than seedy. Pole did originate as a sport long before it went into the strip clubs.

Don't worry about fitness or weight. Bigger girls can pole quite successfully! All you really need to start with is to be able to hold your own body weight for a few seconds - which almost anyone can do. I started quite overweight, I was running but needed to tone, and it was great for that. I would have loved to continue but it is an expensive hobby!

Check out She was fab on X-factor America, and really shows anyone can pole!

I've done pole fitness classes before and they were so much fun (and hard work!)

The class I did concentrated on learning how to spin and developing your core. It was most definitely not sexy in any way!

I wouldn't let being unfit or being a bigger girl put you off - I'm unfit and overweight myself and I was quite good at it