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Wide of Flirty Girls owner doing Fitness Pole Dancing class in Toronto 2. Wide of Fitness Pole Dancing class in Toronto 3. Pan of Fitness Pole Dancing class in Toronto 4. Side stretching in class 5. Tilt down of...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAP Television News \u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of Flirty Girls owner doing Fitness Pole Dancing class in Toronto \u003cbr/\u003e2. Wide of Fitness Pole Dancing class in Toronto \u003cbr/\u003e3. Pan of Fitness Pole Dancing class in Toronto \u003cbr/\u003e4. Side stretching in class \u003cbr/\u003e5. Tilt down of Krista Knee, owner of Flirty Girls Fitness upside down on pole \u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Krista Knee, Co-Owner, Flirty Girls Fitness, Toronto and Chicago:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We are to capacity. I knew when I opened this place it was going to be special. It is. I am shocked at how much Toronto and Chicago love the studio. The women can't get enough of it. They're constantly telling their friends. We're getting so many referrals. We have never had to advertise \" \u003cbr/\u003e7. Set up of Joanna Trager, 29 years, Toronto resident, advertising executive \u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE (English) Joanna Trager, Toronto Resident, Advertising Executive: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Treadmills, bicycles they're all just getting old and they're getting boring. Coming here getting a full body workout and noticing that all of my muscles are a lot firmer than they used to be.\" \u003cbr/\u003e9. Set up Julie Cassidy, 25 years, marketing and branding consultant, Toronto \u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE (English) Julie Cassidy, Marketing and Branding Consultant, Toronto: \u003cbr/\u003e\"I'm tired of the regular gym, treadmills and oliptical machines were not getting the results that I noticed. They were only working certain parts of my body at a time. This allowed me to workout my entire body in one shot. I didn't have to keep moving from machine to machine.\" \u003cbr/\u003e11. Set up of Marie Lopez Sweeney, 27 years, hair salon manager \u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE (English) Marie Sweeny Lopez, Hair Salon Manager: \u003cbr/\u003e\"I love coming here because I actually do come here as opposed to the gyms where I've joined and dropped out two weeks after joining. I've been coming for four and half months. I've noticed a huge difference in the elongation of my muscles, my endurance and just my cardio has definitely increased as well.\" \u003cbr/\u003e13. Exterior sign 'Flirty Girls fitness' \u003cbr/\u003e14. Shiny studio floor \u003cbr/\u003e15. Female students socialising at front reception \u003cbr/\u003e16. Set up of Mira Jelic, 32 years, Toronto healthcare executive \u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE (English) Mira Jelic, Toronto Healthcare Executive: \u003cbr/\u003e\"I like working out at an all ladies gym. It's fun. There aren't any men around and you just meet other women. I don't feel any pressure. I just enjoy my workout plus I like these classes because there's dancing. They're rhythmical. They're really \u003cbr/\u003esuited for women whereas in other classes I find it's very competitive because there are men in them where it's very supportive in this environment \" \u003cbr/\u003e18. Set up Michelle Epstein, Flirty Girls Fitness co-owner \u003cbr/\u003e19. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Epstein, Co-Owner, Flirty Girls Fitness: \u003cbr/\u003e\"The classes work you out from head to toe. A class like 'Sexy Sculpt' is a full training class. You work every single muscle in your body. We actually get girls lifting weights. A class like 'Pole Fit' is an amazing core workout. Doing the slides down the pole, you use your arms, your butt, your legs. You are working every part of your body.\" \u003cbr/\u003e20. Flexing arm muscle \u003cbr/\u003e21. Set up Diana Sutherland, instructor for Pole Fit, Pole Dancing and pole tricks. \u003cbr/\u003e22. SOUNDBITE (English) Diana Sutherland, Instructor, Pole Fit, Pole Dancing and pole tricks: \u003cbr/\u003e\"With the dancing for example, holding onto the pole. You're building your strength and you're also elongating your muscles as you dance and as you're holding onto the pole, your body weight is leaning back and its helps to stretch the muscles as well as strengthen them. Dancing is a phenomenal full body workout. It's just a good cardio workout as well. With the Pole Fit, we specifically target arms, cardio we work legs. We get down on the floor and we do some abs as well, some gluts. We pretty much try to touch base with every single muscle group.\"\u003cbr/\u003e23. SOUNDBITE (English) Krista Knee, Co-Owner, Flirty Girls Fitness, Toronto and Chicago:\u003cbr/\u003e\"If you want to be a pole dancer and you have to get up that pole. You have to be able to lift your full body weight. I weigh 120 pounds so I have to lift myself up, swing myself upside down, sideways and all around. It's an amazing workout for your muscles, for your abs, your butt, amazing.\" \u003cbr/\u003e24. Wide Krista Knee spinning on pole \u003cbr/\u003e25. Close up of (Krista Knee) legs at pole \u003cbr/\u003e26. SOUNDBITE (English) George Chaker, Owner and Celebrity Trainer: Diesel Gym, Toronto:\u003cbr/\u003e\" We can talk about pole dancing on two levels. There's the empowerment issue and women just coming out of their shell. Women of all shapes and sizes just feeling a little bit sexier about themselves and that translates in helping them with their self confidence, their relationships and the way they associate with others. The flip side is they are actually doing a workout. It's not easy stuff, lots of squats, lots of lunges, lots of arm work, lots of of learning how to use your core stabilisation. It's learning how to use their arms. A lot of these girls if you see the ones who are seriously doing it, are \u003cbr/\u003ebuilt very very well, are very strong.\" \u003cbr/\u003e27. Sign of Absolution Gym in Los Angeles \u003cbr/\u003e29. Wide Kathleen Chapman, Kelly's S Factor, Los Angeles  \u003cbr/\u003e30. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kathleen Chapman, Instructor, Kelly's S Factor, Los Angeles:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well, working a pole gives you a lot of confidence, a lot of body confidence, a lot of sexy kind of confidence. S Factor is a very organic sensual feminine movement. It's all about the feminine. It's a movement that gives women a confidence in their curves and in their ability to be sensual which is to something that we always have as women. It's something to move us a long and make us confident in that.\" \u003cbr/\u003e31. Set up Kara Kassuba, L.A. fashion consultant, student \u003cbr/\u003e32. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kara Kassuba, Fashion Consultant and Student:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I also did it for confidence. A little bit was about the body and exercise but more of it was about gaining confidence in my ability to do different things, public speaking and fear of a lot of things I was trying to overcome.\" \u003cbr/\u003e33. Close up Kathleen Chapman upside down on pole \u003cbr/\u003ePole dancing is no longer a reserve for professional dancers. \u003cbr/\u003eA growing trend in North America, mastering the art of the pole is fast becoming a mainstream exercise regime for women. \u003cbr/\u003e'Fitness Pole Dancing' is now considered a real workout regime. \u003cbr/\u003eWith music pounding to a steady beat, the sultry sweats of pole dancing are no longer just a sultry expression.\u003cbr/\u003ePole dancing has turned into a fully-fledged bonafide fitness trend as more women turn to what is now considered an athletic and artistic form of dance and exercise.\u003cbr/\u003eFor many in the U.S. and Canada, floor to ceiling metal poles have replaced stationary bikes and treadmills as an aerobic and anaerobic exercise choice. \u003cbr/\u003eKrista Knee, co owner of Flirty Girls Fitness in Toronto, says both of their studios in Toronto and Chicago are booked to capacity going into 2008. \u003cbr/\u003eAdvertising Executive, Joanna Trager, says  treadmills and exercise bikes are boring and fitness pole dancing provides a challenging workout. \u003cbr/\u003eMarketing and Branding Consultant Julie Cassidy agrees that she turned to pole dancing because she was tired of using the gym.  \u003cbr/\u003eHair Salon Manager Marie Lopez Sweeney says she likes the fitness pole work-out because it's fun and motivates her to exercise.  \u003cbr/\u003eAt Flirty Girls Fitness studios in Toronto and Chicago, urban brick and beam design with hardwood floors, chandeliers and pink accented lighting create the upscale environment comfortable for women to spend time in a female-only environment where they can let loose. \u003cbr/\u003eToronto Healthcare Executive, Mira Jelic, says the unisex environment appeals because there is no competitive atmosphere. \u003cbr/\u003eMichelle Epstein, Flirty Girls co-owner, says pole dancing works out every muscle and improves core stability.\u003cbr/\u003eInstructor Diana Sutherland, 27, teaches pole fit, pole dancing and pole tricks. She says the pole classes build strength, elongate muscles and give a good cardio work-out. \u003cbr/\u003eKrista Knee adds that strength is important because pole dancers need to be able to lift their body weight.\u003cbr/\u003eOne of Canada's top trainers to the stars, George Chaker, 34, owner of the Diesel Gym in Toronto, says pole fitness empowers women with self confidence in addition to giving them a good work-out.\u003cbr/\u003eIn Los Angeles, at Absolution Gym in West Hollywood, classes are just as much in demand. \u003cbr/\u003eKathleen Chapman, an instructor with Kelly's S Factor, agrees that women love the empowerment aspect. \u003cbr/\u003eKara Kassuba, an L.A. fashion Consultant, says she enjoys the workout but attends the classes in order to raise her confidence. \u003cbr/\u003eAnd the trend has even started to leave the gym and make it's way into people's homes.  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