Today I am answering a writing prompt but also sharing ways that I like to exercise. If you had asked me a few years ago about fun ways to exercise I would say there are none lol. I was very much not a fitness person at all growing up, PE was my worst subject because I could not find joy in cross-country running or hockey and still don’t so yeah. Fitness was just not something for me.

But one day my friends and I were having a sleepover and one of them said she had always wanted to try pole dancing and I liked the sound of that. So we decided to Google and sure enough there was a pole studio in town that we could go to and so we signed up on a whim.

Thinking back to those early days I remember I was nervous but I was glad I had a friend with me to get over the initial awkwardness. I think it also helped that our teacher was a first time teacher too so we could kind of grow with him. It definitely wasn’t easy in the beginning, as I had no body strength whatsoever but I was motivated to continue working on it. I knew from the first class this would be something I was going to stick at.

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