There's a reason pole athletes look so toned. "Pole fitness requires a lot of upper-body strength, core, and abductor muscles," Laura Giromini Arrigoni, an XPOLE group fitness instructor at Crunch, ...

My legs are spread open in the instructor’s face as I attempt a basic wrist sit move (where you grip the pole with one hand under your butt, then kick your legs wide open), and she’s telling me off ...

It's the start of a new year, and that means gyms across Michigan are packed with people fulfilling their New Year's resolutions to get healthier, move more, and maybe lose a little bit of the weight ...

ANDOVER — After about 15 minutes of stretching and warmups, Dorian Brown demonstrates how to do a pole crunch. Welcome to beginner pole fitness class at North Shore Pole Fitness. The new studio, which ...