Actually it is cardio - LOL. When I am done with my set I am usually glistening with perspiration.
I don't mind it most times. For now, it is the only job that I can do where I can have VERY flexible hours, CASH (the money I make is NOWHERE NEAR WHAT MOST PEOPLE THINK!), and still be with my kids and go back to school. But anyone who says that it is easy it a bold-faced liar. Unless you have an EXTREMELY strong self-image it can where you down and erode your self-esteem causing a serious downward spiral.
I dance because I have a nice physique that I am not ashamed to show. I like to dance, whether it is for customer, at a club, for a bf or just acting silly in the grocery store w/my girls. For now, it pays the bills..... but I, like so many of the other women who earn their money this way are sooooo much above it.
Any women who allows ANY MAN to make her feel degraded should QUIT - PERIOD.
If all of the men who came to watch would realize that it is all about selling a FANTASY - NOTHING MORE AND MAYBE LESS - then it would be much more tolerable. But let us not kid ourselves, for many it is about so much more than that..... there is where the problem lies.