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‘Shake it like a Polaroid picture’
hotic-dancing research leads to an unusual stripper workout book
By Aline McKenzie
KRT CAMPUS
Everyman should be as fortunate as Sheila Kelley's husband.
She was doing some research for a film and — lucky dog he —
she was studying stripping.
"I'm pretty sure we have our second child because of the lap
dance I did," she said.
She noticed that the dancing made her supple and strong, so she
liegan putting together a workout based on the moves.
She even installed a stripper’s pole in her husband’s home office.
Kelley has parlayed all this into videos and a new book, "The S
Factor: Strip Workouts for Every Woman" (Workman, $15.95).
Her husband, actor Richard Schiff, was "totally thrilled with
riiolhave become, and my confidence in my body and myself,"
ie said.
Kelley's acting resume includes appearances on the "Sisters,"
'E.R.''and "MDs" television series.
But her slinking career got started as she was producing and
ttarring in the 2000 movie "Dancing at the Blue Iguana," which is
about strippers.
She and the other actresses were to improvise their parts, so they
[{searched how real exotic dancers moved.
The dancers would try to teach her moves, such as extending her
lip sideways. She couldn't do it, and kept trying and trying, until
suddenly — boom! — she could get her hip out that far.
Tm using muscles that I've never used in normal workouts. It's
inch an incredible use of resources," she says.
No kidding.
"Over the course of four months, I realized that my clothes did-
n'tfit,and I felt a lot better," she said.
A former teen ballerina, she began breaking the moves down
into single steps and called the result "The S Factor" after a
tomans curves. She opened a studio in Los Angeles and started
giving lessons.
lathe book, she and her assistants prowl through a variety of
basic and advanced exercises with sensual names such as the
prance," "flirt," "pump" and "side goddess."
ifsasafe bet that there aren't many exercise books that discuss
thatkinds of clothes are best for taking off. She also sells, through
tkWeb site www.sfactor.com, g-strings, camisoles and an
adjiffible "Lif Mynx" dance pole.
And when it's time to graduate to the pole, it's safety first: use
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goddess, she says in her book.
"You’re tapping in to a side of yourself that your body's telling
you not to tap in to," she said.
Cardio Striptease instructor Jeff Costa (center) encourages students to take off clothes during a workout at Crunch Gym in Mission Viejo, Calif
painted one.
Though she considers herself a feminist, she sees the setfy
strength developed through stripping as part of the package.
"It's something every single woman on the planet should have,"
she said. "Biologically, it sets off something in guys. That's their
deal, not your deal,"-she says.
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