Beginner Pole Series – The Nibbler

Cost: 6 week equipment pass – $170 plus tax

Min 4; max 12

Join this 6 week series designed especially for beginners. Class begins with a full body warm-up  followed by conditioning exercises to help strengthen and stretch your pole muscles and core.  Each week you will learn an exciting new spin and transition on the pole.  By the end you’ll be comfortably dancing a flowy and gorgeous choreographed routine and beginning to climb off the ground.

If this is your first time, PERFECT!  This is the right class for you!  Curious about what to expect?  Check out this article on What to Expect in Your First Class.

1. It’s Risqué

“The stereotype of what pole dancing means to the majority of people, although changing and getting better every day, is part of the allure to some women,” says instructor Tracy Traskos, of NY Pole. It’s also a great conversation topic at parties or even at work.

2. It’s like Role Playing
Besides the fact that you get to wear 6-inch stilettos when you work out, you also get to be a sex siren for an hour. Coupled with building the leg and arm strength needed to climb the pole and hold yourself up and the coordination to follow the choreography, you get to do moves like head and hip rolls, mimicking the sexy dancers you often see at strip clubs (while toning at the same time!)

3. Female Bonding
“Women who take the classes together create great friendships while bonding over the fun of pole dancing,” Traskos says. “Also, no one is catty or judgmental so it’s a place you can be free to look foolish if you want to!”

4. It’s an Accomplishment

“Participants feel like they have accomplished something great they never really thought possible,” Traskos says. Plus, it’s a safe, fun, and effective way to learn the art of pole dancing. At an advanced level, pole dancing is both a cardio and strength workout, which can burn 800 calories an hour or more!

5. You Get Individual Attention

Rather than group fitness classes, where one instructor is often teaching a dozen participants or more, pole dancing classes are smaller and more intimate. You get a lot of individual attention from the instructor, similar to personal training sessions.

6. It’s Much Harder than it Looks
“This aspect of it builds confidence and improves body image and the ability to tackle other seemingly out of reach goals in life,” Traskos says. “This confidence inevitably blends into other areas of your life, including relationships.”

7. It’s Four Exercises in One
“[Pole dancing] effectively combines strength training, endurance, and flexibility training into one fun activity,” Traskos says. “It’s yoga, Pilates, TRX, and Physique 57 all wrapped into one. And in high heels!”

8. It Teaches the Power of Bodyweight Workouts
“Most woman work way harder in pole class than in the gym,” says Traskos, who was a personal trainer for 15 years before joining the team at NY Pole. “There is a time and place for the gym, but pole appeals to women who hate the gymmor never even go. And most of the exercises we do, like climbing the pole, are a lot tougher than doing biceps curls.”