Top 5 Tips for Beginner Hula Hoopers

Beginners Hula Hoop

1. For a good work out you’ll need an adult hoop (normally 39-41inches) which are much easier to use than a child hoop.  Don’t worry, these are provided at classes and you will soon be able to purchase them online!

2. Stand with your feet hip width apart and stabilise your torso and legs. Every time the hoop comes across your tummy push forwards and pull back when it touches your back. This will also help you isolate your abs and get the maximum benefits from hooping.

3. Spin the hoop both directions. It might feel strange at first but it’s important to work out both sides of your body evenly.

4. Turn Turn Turn! If you walk in a circle the same direction the hoop is spinning it will make everything seem a little bit slower and easier.

5. Be patient! Hula hooping will do wonders for your coordination but it can time to get the knack of it.

Happy Healthy Hoops have never had a student they couldn’t teach so come along to a class and you'll be hooping before you know it!

Benefits of Hula Hooping

1. Burns Fat Hooping uses some of the biggest muscles in your body and so it’s forced to use its fat stores to provide the required energy. 2. Tones Your Body The ultimate workout for your core, but also works your glutes, thighs, legs and arms. 3. Increases Fitness Level Hooping is an aerobic workout and can help you burn as many calories as running on a treadmill. 4. Improves Your Mood It’s laugh out loud fun so you forget you’re exercising. 5. Improves Your Coordination Hula hooping is all about timing and rhythm and over time will improve your coordination. 6. Improves Flexibility Hooping requires significant motion especially in your spine. This can even help in the prevention of back injuries.

Accountant to Professional Hula Hooper

Last month I spoke about my career change at a Careershifters workshop. They decided to turn it into a video so they can use it as part of their regular trainings. As I said in the video it still makes me laugh every time I say 'I am a professional hula hooper!!'

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I dare you to tell me you can’t hula hoop!

Sometimes I get tired of hearing people say that they can’t hula hoop. I hear it ALL the time. It’s exhausting and frustrating but then I remember I get to prove them all wrong!!! Every last one of them! You just need the right hoop and teacher. Three People Who You Might Think Can’t Hula Hoop, That Can!!!

Stroke Patient Can Hoop – A friend of mine is a Neuro Physiotherapist, who does amazing work reprogramming the brain and teaching people to walk again, decided to use the hoop in a therapy session with a stroke patient. Her stroke patient can hoop.

People Who are Blind Can Hoop – I’ll let the video speak for its’ self on this one but this is really inspiring.

My Dad who has Parkinson’s Can Hoop – I took hula hoops to my Dad’s 60th Birthday. I was a little worried he wouldn’t be able to participate as he has had Parkinson Disease for 18 years and has spent periods of his life in a wheel chair. But when I started explaining how to push the hoop he gave me this look that said ‘Don't patronise me, I have this’. And my Dad hula hooped, in fact he was a bit of a show off.

So come on tell me you can’t hula hoop, I dare you!

Has anyone shocked you with their ability to hula hoop? Tell us about it!

All My Grandchildren Will Be Learning to Hoop

When I saw this video on YouTube it made me smile right to the end so I decided to find out more about Yvonne.  Here is our interview.

Tell me a little bit about yourself? My name is Yvonne, I’m 52 and I have 2 daughters Astin and Ashlyn. I’m in a long term relationship with Prince , I have 3 grand children  Tatiyana 5  Christian 2 and Jayden 8 months I’m from New Jersey.

What inspired you to start Hooping? As a child I was the only daughter out of 3 brothers so I had to find games that I could play alone like jump rope, jacks and the hula hoop, and always loved it. It’s been years since I even seen a hula hoop, so one day last year I was looking at YouTube videos and came across a video of Ji Min Hwang that young lady was throwing that hoop all over her body and I was hooked all over again. I started looking at more and more videos trying to learn this thing called hoop dance which I had never heard of and then I seen mini hoops which I never knew there was such a things, so I ordered me a hoop and began practicing. And I fell in love all over again.

What is your favourite trick? The trick I’m working on now is hooping on my foot and on one leg can’t wait to get that down pack.

What has changed for you since you started hooping? I’ve been hooping for a year now and can’t imagine it not in my life. I use hooping to maintain the weight I have loss and to keep my in shape I hoop at least 4 times a week.

What would you like to do with your hooping in the future? There are no hoopers in my town and I had made it my mission to change that and I will be spreading the word that the hula hoop is back. All my grand children will be learning to hoop my granddaughter Tatiyana been hooping since she was 3 she is 5 now and loves it

If you would like to see more you can follow Yvonne on Twitter @katana229