So how do you...

Kimsied

I have a couple questions...

How do you all incorporate hooping into your day or into your workouts?

And how do you log it?

PrimalSweden

I personally use it as either a 5 min warm up before strength training or roughly 10 minutes or more for straight cardio. You can log it under cardio. It burns 100 calories per 10 minutes (10 cal a minute) according to all the research I have read on the subject

PrimalSweden

I also do it any time I feel like I want to move it its fun so it's easy to do while watching tv.

Kimsied

I frequently hoop while watching tv as well!

I also sometimes use my hoop for "recovery intervals". I switch between jump roping and hooping (each direction, whatever moves). That is a pretty good workout for when I don't feel like working out, but still want a good cardio workout. I tell myself only 10 minutes--but with some fun music, a jump rope and a hoop it usually lasts longer than 10 minutes.

Hooping4Life

I read books a lot when I hoop. Double relaxation but awesome benefits. I also hoop while watching TV. With that too, if I am exhausted and feeling lazy, I will hoop during just the commercials, but ALL the commercials, not just one or too.

I also have a hoop hanging on my office wall at work and any chance I get, be it 3 or 12 minutes, I take a hoop break anytime I can think about it.

Summer time, if there is a hoop around, I am in it.

BMcC9

I read books a lot when I hoop.

:huh: How the HECK do you do that?!?! :huh: I just can't picture it! I DO get listening to an audio-book while hooping, but can't visualize with a "real book" in my hands.

summer8it

I have a couple of "hoop events" every week - I go to an hour-long hoop dance class every Wednesday night, and on Saturdays I hoop for an hour or more at a drum circle on the beach. On other days, I'll just put on some music and dance with my hoop for as long as I feel like it! Sometimes I hoop while watching TV, if there's a particular move I want to focus on and really nail. I once spent the duration of a whole movie trying to learn to shoulder hoop, and by the end of the movie I had it down!

I created my own exercise of "hoop flow" and made it 300 calories an hour (MFP has since adjusted that down, since I've lost weight.) I think the claims of 600 calories an hour would only be accurate for an average-sized or small person if you are really rocking it out, hooping non-stop and working up a major sweat! When I've checked my calorie burn using a heart rate calculator for a really intense session (lots of fast hooping, lifts, jump-throughs, etc.), I haven't made it up to that 600 cal/hour mark... but I am very small, so my calorie burn numbers are never as impressive as I'd like them to be!

rocketass99

OK so I fianaly keep the hoop around my middle for min at a time. It goes from my hips to my natural waist. But I can't seems to control it when I want to. I just deal with it as it moves. What am I doing wrong. Oh and i can walk with it now too. Not perfect, but none the less walking.

And here is the big question. Is it actually possible for a girl with big boobs to do chest hopping? I get it up the and it stay for a few circles when drops back down to my waist. Help please

juliemarie911

How much does a weighted hula hoop burn?

summer8it

OK so I fianaly keep the hoop around my middle for min at a time. It goes from my hips to my natural waist. But I can't seems to control it when I want to. I just deal with it as it moves. What am I doing wrong. Oh and i can walk with it now too. Not perfect, but none the less walking.

And here is the big question. Is it actually possible for a girl with big boobs to do chest hopping? I get it up the and it stay for a few circles when drops back down to my waist. Help please

As a 32DDD, I can confidently say that yes, girls with big boobs can chest hoop and shoulder hoop. With chest hooping, since the hoop is actually circling above the breasts, I think it actually helps a bit that I have a bit more of a ledge there.

Like hooping on the waist, chest hooping is all about the four contact points - on the chest, the points will be the center of the rib cage above the cleavage, the two armpits, and the spine between the shoulder blades - and keeping up the same rythym of body and hoop. It helps to keep turning in the same direction as the flow of your hoop. I'm probably not explaining this well, perhaps my dear Morninglilli can explain it better... her hints always help me figure things out!

But yes, you CAN do it, no matter what the size of your breasts!

kayemme

re: shoulder / chest hoopin':

it also helps to bring your shoulders in (forward) when the hoop is on the back and your shoulders out (backward) when the hoop is on your chest. it's more like a belly dance move: concave, convex, concave, convex.

also like summer said, it helps to turn with it.

morninglilli

re: shoulder / chest hoopin':

it also helps to bring your shoulders in (forward) when the hoop is on the back and your shoulders out (backward) when the hoop is on your chest. it's more like a belly dance move: concave, convex, concave, convex.

also like summer said, it helps to turn with it.

Yes to this. It is a belly dance chest isolation. You will find it helps to work on isolating your upper body motion. Keeping your lower half still will keep the hoop under control. I like to lift my elbows out a bit also to give the hoop a ledge of sorts to ride on.

And I will third summers recommendation to spin in current with the hoop. It slows the reaction time.
You can do it!!!!!!:happy: