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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 focuses on pole dancing as exercise, opened several weeks ago on Haverhill Street.

Typically, a first class will also include instruction on pole pull-ups, basic spins and climbing techniques on eight vertical poles installed in the studio. Brown said the poles are more than just a tool for adult entertainment, the vertical apparatus trains the body like no other weightlifting or resistance training available.

You can do an entire workout just using a pole, said Brown, 51, the owner of the new fitness studio. You can use every part of your body.

Brown, who lives in Georgetown, said first-time students need to overcome fear factors before performing anything fancy. While the training can be hard, the instructors also try to keep it sultry.

It is still pole dancing, Brown said. We don't want to be so removed making it just about fitness and boot camp. There is still a dance element.

Eventually students can learn how to do aerial tricks and inversions. Intermediate and expert pole fitness classes are also available.

On Thursday and Sunday, Sexy Stiletto" workouts are offered and there is also a pole fitness boot camp. A second room, without poles, allows them to offer additional classes in yoga and chair dance. The classes are for both men and women. People of all different ages, shapes and sizes can participate, Brown said.

This is the first studio of its kind in the area, Brown said, noting It is tough to find chair dance classes even in New York City. There are only two or three pole fitness studios in the Boston area, she said.

General manager Philip Deal, 32, of Winthrop, who competes in pole dancing competitions nationwide, said pole fitness began catching on in fitness circles around the world in 2006. It started in Australia and the United Kingdom before reaching the United States, particularly the West Coast, Deal said.

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