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Speaker 1: My Heart podcasts, hear more Kids podcasts, playlists, and listen

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Speaker 2: Hey there's a I Wouldn't Go Georgia as the owner

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Speaker 2: of a core Plastic Polarates studio, and she's got a

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Speaker 2: pretty fascinating review, I think.

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Speaker 3: Anyway, listen to this.

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Speaker 4: The review says something along the lines of men are

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Speaker 4: required to wear shirts in a gym, so they should

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Speaker 4: be required to wear shirts in a Polarate studio. Other

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Speaker 4: local studios in the area have a street shirt on policy,

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Speaker 4: which I'd never heard of. On one hand, we've worked

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Speaker 4: so hard to create this culture where people feel comfortable

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Speaker 4: and confident to wear whatever they like. No one's looking

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Speaker 4: at you, They're looking at themselves in the mirror, to

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Speaker 4: break the mold that guys just come with their girlfriends

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Speaker 4: to pilates. I think as well, we've created this safe

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Speaker 4: space for women to feel comfortable and confident to be

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Speaker 4: in their crop tops. Is this crossing a line and

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Speaker 4: making them feel less comfortable?

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Speaker 3: It is interesting, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I mean, as a guy, I don't really like guys

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Speaker 2: working out with their shirts off around me.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what that is where where do you

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Speaker 1: find that I do a bit of yoga and off

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Speaker 1: at yoga?

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Speaker 3: Yes? Really?

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Speaker 1: Is it hot yoga?

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Speaker 3: Do you do?

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Speaker 5: Hell?

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Speaker 2: No, just a standard yoga and is often one dude

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Speaker 2: a class jacks to show. Now, look, honestly, at the

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Speaker 2: end of the day, do what you want to do.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, to make you uncomfortable?

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Speaker 3: What does it make you uncomping? What about what Georgia

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Speaker 3: said from core Plus.

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Speaker 1: Are you supposed to focus on yourself and not, you know,

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Speaker 1: kind of block them out?

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Speaker 3: Well, let's ask Georgia herself.

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Speaker 2: She joins us right now, Georgia Craig from Corplus Plarti's

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Speaker 2: studio Collingwood and Fitzroy North.

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Speaker 3: Heye, Georgia, hello, thanks for having me so, I mean

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Speaker 3: the obviously we're two guys talking about this.

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Speaker 2: I you know, I'm talking about being off put from

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Speaker 2: the meditation side of a yogurt sense.

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Speaker 3: But you mentioned something I think is probably.

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Speaker 2: Far more important, because let's be honest, Pilarates is a

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Speaker 2: largely female based program, or certainly I imagine most of

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Speaker 2: your members or customers are.

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Speaker 3: Is that a concern for you?

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Speaker 2: I mean, as you said in the audio, just then,

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Speaker 2: like you're trying to create a safe space for women

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Speaker 2: to be in their crop tops, for guys to be

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Speaker 2: with their rigs out while they're on the reformer.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's interesting. I was blown away by the comments

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Speaker 5: in the video because I definitely saw both sides. I think,

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Speaker 5: I don't want to discourage men if they're hot and sweaty.

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Speaker 5: It's really hot in that room, you know, it's like

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Speaker 5: thirty five to thirty eight degrees. They're sure it's definitely

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Speaker 5: more comfortable with the top off, But at the same time,

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Speaker 5: is it distracting? Is it intimidating? I definitely, I definitely

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Speaker 5: do receive both sides for the comments. I would say,

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Speaker 5: we're ninety five percent leaning towards shirt on.

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Speaker 1: So how many guys Georgia would you say are taking

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Speaker 1: their tops off?

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Speaker 3: So let's I'll give you a number. Let's let's say,

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Speaker 3: if there's five guys in.

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Speaker 1: Your class, how many of them do you expect to

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Speaker 1: at some point remove their top?

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Speaker 5: Oh, it would be a very very small number.

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Speaker 1: Okay, And would you say that it's a start of

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Speaker 1: the class decision? Because that, for me kind of shows

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Speaker 1: me that they fully intended to get there, whereas if

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Speaker 1: they did it fifteen minutes in. It's almost like you

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Speaker 1: got uncomfortable you took your top off. Maybe that's a

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Speaker 1: little bit more understanding.

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Speaker 5: Do you see that. I definitely get It's the ego,

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Speaker 5: isn't it. I like to think we've got a pretty

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Speaker 5: you know, low ego. Memph Dasey. I would say it's

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Speaker 5: for the for the temperature control and later in class.

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Speaker 5: But I mean, you're dealing with the public. You get it.

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Speaker 3: All, get it all, you get it all.

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Speaker 2: So again, I'll take you about India yoga studios. You

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Speaker 2: always know which dudes are going to take the top

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Speaker 2: off because they're genuinely speaking, tall and ripped, okay, which

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Speaker 2: makes you think it's showy. Also, they set up, they

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Speaker 2: set up at the front of the class and then

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Speaker 2: they lay a towel down over their mat because they

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Speaker 2: know they're going to sweat so much when they take

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Speaker 2: their shirt off.

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Speaker 3: It's just exactly you said. You're like, you know that

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Speaker 3: it's coming.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, some of the comments were saying that shirts

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Speaker 5: should be onto control and contain this way.

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Speaker 2: Because I was going to say, like one of those machines,

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Speaker 2: I'd be all my just carrying that kerosene and just

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Speaker 2: throwing a torch on it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, bro, and he sweats flying on your mat.

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Speaker 1: Even the temperature argument, You're right, there are some dry

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Speaker 1: hit singlants out there. Like to steal a phrase from

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Speaker 1: Ned Flanders, you feel like you're wearing nothing at all.

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Speaker 1: It does wick the sweat.

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Speaker 5: Which the sweat That is very technical language. I think

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Speaker 5: one of the comments was quite funny. It was like

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Speaker 5: I would rather a shirt off that bad body odor

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Speaker 5: any day. So it's like pick your battles as well.

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Speaker 2: You made a really interesting comment about the only men

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Speaker 2: going to Polarti studios with their partners. The only time

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Speaker 2: I've done pilarts is with sim That's that's for sure.

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Speaker 2: If she took me to put to a polarate studio

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Speaker 2: which was all women, and I went in with her

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Speaker 2: the only guy, and halfway through it took my shirt off,

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Speaker 2: you think you'd love it, like I'd be walking.

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Speaker 3: The other thing as well, like you know the guy's

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Speaker 3: single or you know the.

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Speaker 5: Guys I think. I mean it could be a bit

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Speaker 5: of a power move. I will say there's definitely been

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Speaker 5: a change, and I love it. We've got so many

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Speaker 5: guys who come by themselves, you know, whether they've been

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Speaker 5: sent by a physio and then fallen in the routine,

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Speaker 5: or whether they've been dragged along from you know, with

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Speaker 5: their partner to start. But there definitely is a change.

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Speaker 5: I would say maybe twenty percent of our classes of

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Speaker 5: guys now on. Yeah, so it's definitely a good like

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Speaker 5: a welcome, safe space for men to come. I really

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Speaker 5: don't want to tell anyone we're not judgmental, promise. Looking

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Speaker 5: at the feedback on the comments, it was pretty overwhelmingly

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Speaker 5: shirt Tom.

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Speaker 2: If you set up a class, you say, to tell

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Speaker 2: you what guys you can come down and polates and

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Speaker 2: you can take your shirt.

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Speaker 3: Off to class, top off class. But the class is

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Speaker 3: only straight men.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a good socialist Well.

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Speaker 2: It's a good idea, but I guarantee you right now

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Speaker 2: will be no one in that class.

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Speaker 5: The role of bits too shy.

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Speaker 3: It will be empty, it will be empty, won't be shy.

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Speaker 3: There's just there's no one to show off to. It's

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Speaker 3: bad for business, very bad for business. But you'll be

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Speaker 3: making a very good point. Yeah, exactly, we won't be there.

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Speaker 3: Thanks Georgia, my mate