Hula Hooping!!! Weeeeeeeeee.....

[tribogota]

I am home visiting my mother and she took me out under the freeway over pass on Sunday at 8am to attend her ladies hooping. They hooped the pants off of me, (triathlete) and loved it! I didn't love it so much. My hips hurt after, but boy they are out there for an hour, and then my mother hoops in the kitchen for five minutes here and there...all kind of fun!

[badger]

I feel like I've been living on another planet... sounds like this hooping's evolved from much more than what I was used to as a little girl. Weighted? bumps?

I have a cheap-o hula hoop that I got at a dollar store with some bits that rattle inside, but I doubt it's anything like what you're describing. I'm curious to try it out!

[OakLeaf]

... bump ...

So I never could get that hoop going. Ten minutes of having it circle my hips five or six times and wobble to the ground and I'd get frustrated and quit. After five or six attempts, it sat in a corner untouched for over a year.

Then I crashed in December and badly jammed my neck. Of necessity, found a really good chiropractor and got diligent about the massage therapist. Between the two of them and yoga, once we were done with the neck, we got to work on some long-standing low back issues - a severely flattened lumbar curve, and an SI joint that was locked off-center.

Fast forward to yesterday, when my 9-year-old niece (who's nearly as tall as I am ) came to visit and latched onto the hoop. We were all playing around with it. When it was my turn, I kept it going for probably 20 minutes and would've been able to go longer had I not tried to get fancy.

All it took was for me to have a low back that works the way it's supposed to. And it took a crash to get me to take the time to get there.

Wow.

[macopagirl]

best exercise for hips Loved it♥

[Susan]

I made myself and my friends hoops out of regular poly tubing used for plumbing. It's really simple and cheap. You can cover them with gaffers tape to make them look nice.
This is a good tutorial:
http://www.theartofmegan.com/adultsi..._hoop_tutorial