From strip club to health club: stripper poles for exercising by stay at home soccer Moms





WASHINGTON - Once reserved for the privacy of a men’s club, pole dancing is turning up in unexpected places. Health clubs and dance studios offering the slow grind are attracting women who might have otherwise settled for a step class.

“You let your hair down, and it’s that girl’s club, slumber party feel,” said Teri Jaworksi, who works out at the S Factor, an all-women studio in Los Angeles.

It counts as exercise because it leaves you extremely winded, she said.

Crunch, an urban-oriented subsidiary of Bally Total Fitness with about 30 clubs nationwide, prides itself on offering something different. Strip classes, with or without poles, are no challenge in popularity to step or other big-name dance routines, but they have found a niche among the daring.

You are becoming a stripper for an hour,” said aerobics instructor David Doyle, who leads a cardio aerobics class at a Crunch Fitness club in Chicago. “It’s average people who want to do something that is not average.”

Strip and pole classes are generating interest in the city, Doyle said, but they’re not for every town.

“As far as, is it ready for Kansas, is Kansas ready for it? That is the question,” he said.

Yet, the classes could be more widely available than Doyle perceives.

Detachable poles for the home
Businessman Randy Blacker, of San Jose, Calif., has patented detachable poles that can be installed in homes and stored discreetly out of sight when not in use. His company, Pacific International Marketing and Promotion, has been selling them for two years, including mail order, to just about every state, he said.

Strip aerobics routines are available on videos as well as in the gym, and Blacker said the poles can be part of a good workout. “You are doing regular aerobics mixed with the pole,” he said. “The unique thing is, it’s a sexy workout.”

as long as they are honest and the last chapter is about going out to the parking lot after work and getting absolutely f'd up on crystal meth.

i endorse stripping, in all its forms.

Did you notice all those women though are already in shape? What about the REAL soccer moms and the pole? From what I've heard, pole dancing isn't the most welcoming of activities.

I think the one on the right should spend as much time as possible on a pole.

Maybe they all want to be firefighters. I hate this stereotyping.

good idea

I might just get one installed in my house...in my bedroom...

I've got a "pole".......

One of my friends has a stripper pole in her basement...but she used to be a stripper.

good for husbands

i'd fall on my head and crack my skull if i attempted this, though.

I'm just kiddin' like Jason.
Unless ya gonna do it.



And, for the record, it's a good idea. I'll endorse this.

Yeah, sure, why not?

"Strip aerobics routines are available on videos as well as in the gym,"

I betcha they aren't all used just for work out.

Juice is already cutting roadwork for the monger-off rematch.

THE SPILLA IN MANILA... Filipina prosties and bukake.

i thought this thread was going to be about you blowing a male family member at a get-together.