For anyone who feels silly doing it at their size, I'm 139 and by leaps and bounds the tiniest one in there.. Their is a woman in her 50s who weighs over 200 lbs spinning around the pole like a champion.. It is like any other work out class in the sense that people are there to lose weight.. People don't judge you on a treadmill.. They aren't going to judge you on the pole.. Everyone there is trying to lose weight and support people with the same agenda