Pole dancing is no easy feat—it takes an intense amount of physical power to pull, slide, and swivel around that pole. Not only do you need to have a strong upper body to ace pole dancing, but also a ...

There's a reason pole athletes look so toned. "Pole fitness requires a lot of upper-body strength, core, and abductor muscles," Laura Giromini Arrigoni, an XPOLE group fitness instructor at Crunch, ...

This article was written as told to Kara Wahlgren and provided by our partners at Prevention. Jada Hudson, 25, had tried (and hated!) nearly every fitness class she could find. Then she got up the ...

It was a ‘really, really intense hobby’ that Alyssa Coogan turned into a business. First she taught pole dance and fitness classes out of her house to her friends for free. Now, she’s got a real ...

Muse Pole Fitness recently hosted its 12th Anniversary Student Showcase at the Blue Note in Columbia. Throughout the afternoon, crew members set up trussing and installed poles, ensuring every piece ...

In the dimly lit basement of Body & Pole, a sprawling three-level fitness studio in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood, Sam Doblick is addressing a room of pole-dancing hopefuls. Slim-hipped and barefoot ...

For me fitness always had one goal — aesthetics. I wanted to look like the slender, non-intimidatingly toned women with inch wide thigh-gap and ironing board stomachs whose only curves were the ...

Lisa Visco wants to make things very clear: Her pole-dancing studio is not a brothel. The 51-year-old owner of AirFlex Aerials, formerly Airflex Fitness, took over the Forks Township fitness studio in ...

Dancer, photographer, and instructor, Ania Przeplasko *, founded the International Pole Dance Fitness Association in 2007. She is also my close friend. Ania took the photos for the cover of my first ...

Aerial Arts Fitness recently opened a new, larger studio in Norwich, Connecticut. The studio offers unique classes like bungee fitness, pole fitness, and aerial fitness. The business is expanding, ...