Posted on 05/03/2005 4:44:55 AM PDT by KidGlock
Women Take Off Pounds With Stripaerobics
Instructor: Class Focuses On Building Confidence
UPDATED: 10:12 am EDT May 2, 2005
MAYFIELD HEIGHTS, Ohio -- They're sexy, mysterious and always in great shape. Exotic dancers don't just strut their stuff in clubs -- they have become trendsetters.
It's a trend even celebrities are cashing in on. Carmen Electra's aerobic striptease is the hottest-selling fitness DVD on the market, reported WEWS-TV in Cleveland.
She lap dances, role plays and even uses props in her school of seduction.
Now women everywhere are daring to bare it all with one of the fastest-growing fitness crazes -- stripaerobics.
Linda Andrews teaches the class at Slender Lady in Mayfield Heights, Ohio, to housewives, professionals, moms and single women looking for a sensual way to get in shape.
"We feel that we're pretty much meeting a need in the fitness industry," Andrews said. "This is a big craze in big cities; New York, Chicago, there's pole dancing, strip dancing, belly dancing. So we're just responding to a need and the women came out."
Relerford said those who came out love the results.
"I've lost 10 pounds, so I'm really happy with the class, and I'm telling everybody I know," Selena Bank said.
The classes start with a few minutes of stretching. Then the women learn some sexy dance moves. The dancers put it all together in a routine that's complete at the end of the six-week course.
A lot of times people hear the term "stripaerobics" and assume the worst. But it is about sexuality, sensuality and gaining confidence.
"What they think about themselves determines how they feel," Andrews said. "And how they feel determines how they project themselves in public. I'm trying to teach them to be the best they can be and accept the results."
"I have two kids. It's just a nice thing to gain some confidence and feel sexy," Tina Basinger said.
Just think if you looked and acted like Carmen Electra you too could marry Dennis Rodman.
BOOOOOOOOOO!! Where's Carmen!
Trashy trend... whatever happened to walking and running?
Mr. Glock, you are a cruel, cruel man.
I'll pass.
Yeah, women are buying this.
#& is a loo-loo... don't look if you're interested in having children in the future! ;-)
"I'm too sexy for my shirt,
too sexy for my shirt
So sexy it hurts"....
Women will buy anything.
Love that song.
ABC did a story about them a few weeks ago, interviewing strippers, and they uncovered a shocking fact: strippers really have no interest in the men watching them! They think they're pathetic suckers and are just trying to get as much money as possible out of them! Who'd a thunk it?
Or maybe both.
"Women will buy anything."
...and then blame men when they are disappointed.
Women are in a never ending and fruitless search of a means of exercising without exercising. Step, Dancercise, Aerobics, Power-walking and the rest but, if you pay attention, you’ll notice that those forms of “exercise” are performed primarily by fat people.
However, you’ll never see fat people running, because running makes you thin.
If you want to be thin, run.
I'm a woman and I have no desire to go to a sprip club but the article is more about women wanting to learn to strip for their men. I can't imagine too many men not liking their wife/girlfriend learning how to strip and getting into shape at the same time.
Mr. Gun has ordered the CD, with the understanding that I will only use it at home.
Mrs. Phugg has 2 of Carmen's DVD's. Mr. Phugg is a happy man.
Mrs. Rightly Biased is trying to stay in shape and wants me to help out.
Well do I have a deal for her!!
Ya know....THAT'S JUST WRONG!
"Exotic dancers don't just strut their stuff in clubs -- they have become trendsetters"
Give me a break.
According to the libs, strippers probably make great "alternative lifestyle" role models for kids.
I hate to break the bad news to you libs out there, but contrary to liberal mythology, most strippers are not stripping to pay their way through college.
Workin' it off?....please...not before breakfast...
I agree.
Maybe Hil can take advantage of this latest craze and dance for Bill.
If you want to be thin, and still keep your cartilage intact, WALK. Lots, a long way, up and down hill. Hiking with a pack is even better, so long as you don't overdo the load.
I thought Carny Wilson had a gastric bypass?
Your milage may vary, but I've been running since I was 12 (I'm 39 now) and my knees are fine.
The plain fact is that you never see fat runners.
You might try a treadmill.
My eyes!!! My eyes!!!!! AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
How could you post such a thing?!!!
At my daughter's school, 100 percent of the PE instructors run, and 100 percent have had knee surgery.
I avoided ACL surgery (incurred injury in a fall from a horse) but I take it easy on the knees.
I agree that I don't see fat runners, but there are plenty of fat folks in our neighborhood TRYING to run . . .
I will note that I NEVER see a happy runner. They all look pretty distressed. My dog and I, on the other hand, are smiling. And the pounds do come off.
If you want to ruin your knees, run....
Ditto for those with back injuries. My doctor told me running is never recommended for those with back problems. The constant pounding on pavement is terrible for the spine.
Bicycling (when done properly) won't hurt your knees or back either.
Too many VERY steep hills, narrow roads, and bad traffic.
The one dedicated bicycle trail in our area (along an abandoned RR right of way) is clogged with cyclists who can't ride conveniently anywhere else. I don't mind the road bikers . . . it's the teenagers on rollerblades and the kid bombers on BMX bikes that scare me.
We can't all run. I'm 49 years old and I do well to walk at a pace of 4.8 to 5 miles per hour at a 1-4% incline for 60 minutes. And I'm not fat!
Just a bump for when you come back.
Swimming is better. My masters swim group meets at 6 in the morning though, so it kinda sucks for me, I will start again with it this summer. I love running. I have a 6 month old daughter, 20 month old son and 3 1/2 year old son. I can't exercise during pregnancy, so I am in need of getting in shape now, because of the small age difference of my last 2, it had been a long time since I had gotten in shape. I have 12 pounds to go and am scheduled to run a half marathon in June. I played basketball in college, so my knees aren't the best. Now I have to stretch before nad after running. Other than that, it is ok.
LOL, I am saving that one for the Canteen. Thanks!
Hey, if my wife wants to undress around me, I certainly don't dissuade her. I just mean I don't understand the chicness of sleazy, exploitative strip club behavior to women, from stripper aerobics classes to Britney Spears writhing on a stripper pole in front of an arena full of 14-year-old girls. There are also always lots of stories in the gossip press about big female stars like Demi Moore hanging out at Scores, gushing over the "dancers" and buying lap dances as if they were at an Avon party buying lipsticks with the girls. Something about all this just strikes me as creepy.
Wanna bet 90% of those DVD's were bought by men. Funny how men are really getting into aerobics.
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