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Luo Lan is manager of Beijing’s first pole dancing school, and her mission in life is to convince a lot of girls that pole-dancing is not only for strippers, but is also a great way to stay fit.

Luo started her pole dancing school, located in a fashionable part of Beijing, last July after realizing that nobody in the city was offering classes in what had become a fashionable way to shape up and lose weight in the United States and Europe.

“Lots of girls love pole dancing, but like me could not find a place to learn. So I spent a lot of time doing research, watching DVDs,” Luo said.

“It’s not hard like ballet. It’s very easy to do.”

Gym membership has become increasingly popular with China’s newly affluent middle class, who are keen to shape up in a country where obesity levels have risen with incomes over the last few decades on the tails of an economic boom.

Luo now runs up to three classes a day, for a maximum of seven students, who pay 110 yuan ($14.15) a session.

Now that the pole-dancing part has all been settled, let’s wait for the next fitness visionary who would teach everybody that eating out a woman 20 years your junior is better than any old-fashioned diet fad.

via CHINA DAILY

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