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Posted by Jodi Jainchill PT, CFMT
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Just like any other exercise program, you must build up your hooping workout. If you are working hard to keep your hoop up, try it for about ten minutes. Slowly build up your time. As your spine gets more supple, you will move with more ease. Then, you can continue lengthening your hooping workout and feeling fabulous!
Now remember, the hoop does not lie. Be sure to feel your hoop, like a dance partner. You want to dance together. If your hips push air and not the hoop, the hoop will fall!
Tutorial #1: Tips To Get Started Hooping Again
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Equipment:
Large hoop that stands between belly button and chest
Full length mirror
Favorite Dance Music
-Start by standing in front of your mirror without your hoop
-Feel relaxed, loose, and fabulous!
-Place either foot in front (stride stance)
-With relaxed knees, rock back and forth fully accepting weight into each foot
-Use the mirror to see where you are stiff. Breathe and relax into that area…You look great!
-Now you are ready to pick up your hoop!!!
-Show some skin on your belly to help the hoop stick more to your body
-Use all the above techniques to move with your hoop
-If you have your right foot in front, spin your hoop to the left and if you put your left foot in
front, spin your hoop to the right
-Use your mirror for feedback and have FUN!
-Give your body time to warm up and feel the music
-Now your having fun and getting a full body workout
This is the beginning of your fitness and lower back exercise program!
Jodi Jainchill PT, CFMT
Tutorial #2: I Started Hooping Again, What’s Next…
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-Hope you’ve been having fun moving again with your hoop
-You may have noticed some muscle soreness in your core, back, and legs
-If your hoop is too small and your movements are “jerky” you may be compressing your spine and causing low back pain, so make sure you have a large, weighted hoop
-You may notice it initially took A LOT of effort and movement to keep the hoop up; with practice you will be more relaxed and have “effortless movement”
-Keep hooping and slowly you will start improving your body awareness and propioception (where your body is in space)
-Comfortable side is your “happy” side and the opposite side is your “healthy” side
-Change stride and do your “healthy” side to be more symmetrical
-It may feel like you are starting all over again, so you may want to start using the mirror for feedback (see tutorial #1)
-Doing both directions works on symmetry and coordination
-Doing both your happy and healthy side will balance your pelvic musculature and your sacroiliac joint (SI joint)
-Hooping in both directions may balance your brain (right/left side)
-Next, try hooping with feet hip width apart in both directions
-Slowly work endurance by increasing time in increments; hoop both directions to a song or during commercials
-Your heart rate may increase and provide a cardio workout
-Have fun and build up your time slowly
Jodi Jainchill PT, CFMT
Bonus Tutorial: Subtle Tips To Keep On Hooping
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Bonus hints to keep your hoop going!
More Tips To Get Your Hoop Started With Success
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