Oct
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Cardio Pole Dancing
Filed Under Alternative Workouts, Work Out
Well, it had to happen some day and I guess today is that day. I got an email asking my opinion on stripper fitness courses.
Huh?
In case you’ve missed this odd little trend, stripper fitness (also called cardio pole dancing and a variety of other names) is a type of exercise where women imitate the moves of strippers. Yep, you heard me, dance like a stripper and call it a workout. Yes, it’s a bit silly and yes, it was probably thought up by a man (really honey, dancing like a stripper is good for you!) but is it healthy?
So Is It A Workout?
Depends. Most of these are too slow paced to be real workouts. They don’t get your heart moving and they don’t really challenge your muscles the way a real workout should. I’m sure that some of them do but the majority do not.
So We Should Avoid This?
Not at all. While it may not be a complete workout, these kinds of courses do get your ass off that couch and moving (quite literally) and that’s a good thing. If you think this is fun then by all means, enjoy. Anything fun and physically active is great.
Any Downsides?
Are there any harmful side effects to this? Not really, unless you count looking silly at times as a harmful side effect which I don’t. The only word of caution I have is that some of these courses have ridiculous requirements like wearing high heel shoes. That’s just crazy and is practically begging for injuries.
Summary
I don’t know if it’s a fad or something that will be around years from now, but if it gets people moving then it’s alright in my book. Just don’t mistake this for a real workout.
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There are just so many jokes I could close out this post with… However, I will exercise some amazing will power and refrain. 
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Hey, if my girlfriend wanted to sign-up for cardio pole dancing, I would be very supportive. I mean, look how far we’ve advanced as a society….woman used to do nothing but cook, clean, make babies, not vote, wear corsets, not speak unless spoken too, etc., Now look, we’ve got single, working woman, with no children, who wear whatever makes them feel sexy around the office, talking to the high heavens about who they’re going to vote for, AND now they can even tighten those non-child bearing hips at Pole Aerobics! God Bless America
@Earth4Energy
My wife reads this blog so I’m not going to respond to your post, as much as I would like to.
Thank you for your comment.
Gal
gals comment made me laugh.
Ill out myself and say I SOOO wanna try this.
at least once.