Is anyone else hula hooping for exercise?

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  • Cheshire00
    Cheshire00 Posts: 34
    oh yah! i bought a 5-lb weighted one and do it anywhere from 10-45 minutes. it has helped shave the inches off of my waist AND sculpt in that area SO much!

    Go you! How do you like your 5lb?? I think my 4lb one is as heavy as I'm going to go :tongue:
  • Savyna
    Savyna Posts: 789 Member
    I want to get a weighted hula hoop. So far I hula hoop on the wii fit but it's making my knees hurt since I can't move my feet. Hopefully with an actual hoop I will have the ability to move around more and not have the weight so situated on my knees. I hope I can do it though, I remember when I was younger (around 6-11) my mom had bought us a toy hula hoop and I could never get it to stay on my hips, my mom could do it though. That's mainly why I find the wii fit's version fun because for the first time I could actually hula hoop without a problem hehe.
  • thinkpositive3
    thinkpositive3 Posts: 85 Member
    I'm more afraid for my lamps, pictures and windows - I can see them sailing all over the room!! :bigsmile:
    How do you figure your calories burned? I've just gone on what I've found on feedback online and on this site, but not 100% sure I'm right on.

    I've done a lot of research on this and what I've come up with is that studies that had been done showed that you can burn 6.9 calories per minute with a regular hoop, it also stated that weighted hoops you burn more per minute but it didn't say how many more :\

    It also depends on how hard/fast you're hooping as well as if you're standing still or moving around.


    I'm excited to see the feeback from everyone about their hooping and progress. I am like the others that say they find it relaxing. I find it easiest to hoop to a 1/2 hour tv show, esp a comedy - breaks it up in 15 minute segments and keeps my mind off my time goal for the day.

    If anyone is considering getting a weighted hoop, do it! Totally worth it! And you will find it just as adicitive as you did when you were a kid!
  • juliesummers
    juliesummers Posts: 738 Member
    Personally, I use a 4lb hoop for about 1-3 hours a day, but I always majorly underestimate the calories because I don't feel like I'm actually getting a workout from it at all.
  • LexieSweetheart
    LexieSweetheart Posts: 793 Member
    does anyone have a hoopnotica? it is a weighted hula hoop
  • amoffatt
    amoffatt Posts: 674 Member
    My husbands cousin lost 20 lbs just by hula hooping on a daily basis.
  • RiaLucia
    RiaLucia Posts: 121
    Hmm, maybe this is my next new venture. Amazingly, I am a bellydancer, and yet I have *never* been able to keep a hula hoop going! It's not like I don't know how to move my body, but I just haven't figured it out. But it looks like fun, and I know the weighted hoops would be *such* a great workout. I'm sure with practice I can eventually figure it out.
  • cheshirequeen
    cheshirequeen Posts: 1,324 Member
    i have a great friend on here and i call her the hula hoop queen. she loves it and it helps her stay fit.
  • Cheshire00
    Cheshire00 Posts: 34
    does anyone have a hoopnotica? it is a weighted hula hoop

    I just bought a hoopnotica hoop and a dvd, it shipped out today so I'm really anxious for it to get here. Those ones are not as heavy as some though, they're usually 2lbs or less :)
  • Cheshire00
    Cheshire00 Posts: 34
    My husbands cousin lost 20 lbs just by hula hooping on a daily basis.

    Wow! All the more reason for me to keep it up, I love reading success stories about hula hoops :bigsmile:
  • Cheshire00
    Cheshire00 Posts: 34
    Hmm, maybe this is my next new venture. Amazingly, I am a bellydancer, and yet I have *never* been able to keep a hula hoop going! It's not like I don't know how to move my body, but I just haven't figured it out. But it looks like fun, and I know the weighted hoops would be *such* a great workout. I'm sure with practice I can eventually figure it out.

    I'm sure if you practice with it you'll have it down in no time!
  • KickingDarkness
    KickingDarkness Posts: 82
    To those who say they can't keep one up it took me a week strait just to be able to keep it up for more than 10 seconds lol. If you're trying with a kiddy sized hoop there's a reason you can't keep it up and don't feel like you should be able to do that. The bigger the hoop the slower it moves and the easier time you will have. :)
  • amoffatt
    amoffatt Posts: 674 Member
    I hula hoop on the wii fit. It's easier than the real thing since I can't keep the real hula hoop going for long! LOL


    Soo me as well. I kick butt on Wii but a real hula hoop, nope.
  • amoffatt
    amoffatt Posts: 674 Member
    My husbands cousin lost 20 lbs just by hula hooping on a daily basis.

    Wow! All the more reason for me to keep it up, I love reading success stories about hula hoops :bigsmile:

    I didn't think a hula hoop could do that but makes sense, and great for the core
  • WarriorWomanMaxine
    WarriorWomanMaxine Posts: 162 Member
    Iam just starting finding it hard to keep it going but as they say practice makes perfect i will keep trying
    my 8yr old daugther loves doing it with me feel free to add me for more support with hooping
  • Cheshire00
    Cheshire00 Posts: 34
    Iam just starting finding it hard to keep it going but as they say practice makes perfect i will keep trying
    my 8yr old daugther loves doing it with me feel free to add me for more support with hooping

    That's awesome, my 5 & 7 y/o boys love hooping with me too :smile:
  • INSANITY43
    INSANITY43 Posts: 142
    I have a 3 lb weighted Sports Hoop from Sporthoop.com haven't been using it lately as I'm doing TurboFire....Gave me some bruises at first. I didn't have a HRM and I wasn't an MFPer at the time so not sure of calorie burn but my 18 year old daughter and I love the Golden Girls (old school I know - but great time together:-) We would watch one or two 1/2 hour episodes hooping during the show and during commercials we would hoop while "standing" in a sumo squat position or hoop really fast for the 3 minute commercial breaks. We were able to keep the hoops up for the whole 1/2 hour....great core workout without "thought". Love It!
  • juliesummers
    juliesummers Posts: 738 Member
    does anyone have a hoopnotica? it is a weighted hula hoop
    I have the Hoopnotica instructional DVDs, but I don't think that's what you're talking about?
  • petalrose
    petalrose Posts: 27 Member
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    To those who say they can't keep one up it took me a week strait just to be able to keep it up for more than 10 seconds lol. If you're trying with a kiddy sized hoop there's a reason you can't keep it up and don't feel like you should be able to do that. The bigger the hoop the slower it moves and the easier time you will have. :)

    Yes I found out after I bought the smaller one that I should have bought the bigger one instead : / so next time I'll get the bigger one.
  • ifucsam
    ifucsam Posts: 40
    I bought a Hoopnotica hoop on the 14th and it's finally arriving today. I think it's a 2.5lb-er but it was on sale and must have sold out because I can't find it anymore. It said it was great for beginners though. I can't wait to get home and get started! I saw one over the weekend at Target but it looked to be rubber and kind of bulky/heavy. Honestly I did a lot of research about hoops and I wouldn't buy one from Walmart, Target, D*cks etc. but that's just me.
  • ifucsam
    ifucsam Posts: 40
    I'm a bit bummed there isn't a hooping option in the exercise database. I just sent my HRM back and I don't have money for another one any time soon.
  • 1968LisaG
    1968LisaG Posts: 17 Member
    I hula hoop and love it. I have a weighted on but it has water in it. I took a class in Maine and the instructor made them. I've just started up again because my tummy seems to be growing and I don't like it. I need to alternate my exercises.
  • 1968LisaG
    1968LisaG Posts: 17 Member
    I'm going to put my hooping down as aerobic exercise, probably light. I don't know how much harder wii super hula hoop is.
  • slim4health56
    slim4health56 Posts: 439 Member
    No, but thanks for the idea! I H-A-T-E exercising - I have adjusted to a healthy eating system, but making myself MOVE is the hardest thing I do. I'll give this a try and hope it doesn't end up in the garage with other "retired" exercise equipment! Thanks again!
  • pwnderosa
    pwnderosa Posts: 280 Member
    Me me!! I do it about 20-30 minutes most days with a dance hoop. I got a sport/exercise hoop at first but I like the dance hoops a lot better than the heavily weighted ones, they allow you to learn cool tricks and dance moves that keeps it lots of fun! I added my own custom exercise for this at about 6 cal/minute I think, it falls in line with aerobics and other dance workouts for calorie burning.

    There's a group on MFP for hoopers too! :)

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/2763-hooping
  • nann465
    nann465 Posts: 10 Member
    I have been!!! I do it at least 30 min. daily
  • nmprovo
    nmprovo Posts: 30 Member
    I just started! I got a Danskin weighted hoop from Walmart for only $18 and it works great! I love it so far.. can't wait to get home from work to use it!
  • nathalier71
    nathalier71 Posts: 570 Member
    Not with actual hula hoops, but I have done the hula hoop section on the Wii Fit! LOL

    Me too!
  • MoRiv1986
    MoRiv1986 Posts: 379 Member
    Bump. And hot hula sounds fun.
  • cadaverousbones
    cadaverousbones Posts: 421 Member
    A regular hoop burns about 5 calories per minute, and a weighted hula hoop (based of 3 lbs hoop) burns about 7 calories per minute.


    I love hooping and you can be out there doing it for 30 minutes and not even realize because you're having fun :)
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