SIV Ngesi says pole dancing shows you what real strength is. | SUPPLIED
Siv Ngesi puts his fitness in
POLE POSITION ACTOR and TV personality, Siv Ngesi sports an incredible physique, and he credits his “crazy diet”, for his body image. Pole dancing was new to Ngesi, but because he’s been giving it his all you’d think he’s been doing it for years. He said the decision to start with the sport came when he re-evaluated what it meant to be a man. “As a Xhosa male you are regarded as a man only after you’ve been to the initiation school. But in 2020 I got the urge to start looking inward, to search and rediscover what being a man means to me at that moment and moving forward. “I started researching feminine things and decided to also try them out. I did ballet and it was hard, I think you really have to start it at an early age to really
Viwe Ndongeni-Ntlebi excel in it. “I moved to pole dancing and I fell in love with it. That sport changed my life; I won’t rest until I’m one of the best in the country. Even though, technically, I’m the best already because of my recent win,” said Ngesi For spectators, it may seem like an easy spot to master, but Ngesi’s experience gave him a different perspective. “People look at pole dancers at strip clubs and think that it’s easy. It’s not. If you think you are strong, come to the pole to prove your strength, it shows you what real strength is.” Although Ngesi has always been “naturally excellent” at sport, pole dancing required more. “I played high-level rugby, water polo and boxing, in all these
sporting codes one has to prove their strength. In pole dancing, while you have to do the same, your ego also gets tested. You put the ego aside and focus on getting great results.” The Still Breathing actor also lost 11kg in 11 weeks when he was training for a bodybuilding pole body competition he won last year. He came first in the Men’s Fitness Model category and second in Mr Fitness (pole and body) at Fitness South Africa 2021 in September. “I worked really hard, committed to the plan and sacrificed for it. I always wanted to do a body competition I started training during the hard lockdown. There was no work commitment and no hectic traveling schedule. “I set out to totally transform my body through a rigorous programme of diet and training
