Hula Hooping is a great way to stay fit, have fun, make friends and tone those problem areas (bums and tummy). The best advantage is you don’t have to concentrate. You can pick up a hoop and start hooping with your favorite music.

It’s fantastic for strengthening core stability and improving balance and coordination. Hula hoop sessions are open to people of all abilities. It combines learning skills with the hoops and aerobics, to get you burning those calories. Hula hoops of different sizes, which are easy to do for all kind of bodies, so all you need to do is to hoop to get the toned body you are looking for.

Benefits of hula hoop

Benefit #1: Helps to Burn Fat
Hula hooping requires effort from some of the biggest muscles in the body, significant amount of energy, so it forces the body to burn fat stores.

Benefit #2: Tones Your Body
Hula hooping works out several of your body’s core muscles that can be toned by hula hooping which include – glutes, thighs, hips, legs, knees and abdomen. Hula hooping with heavier hoops can provide additional resistance to tone these muscles faster.

Benefit #3: Increases Your Fitness Level
Hula hooping is such a low impact exercise that just about anyone can use it to increase their endurance and general fitness level. Even just 10 minutes of hula hooping can provide enough benefit to your body to increase aerobic activity. Hula hooping is as effective as an aerobic workout that an hour of hula hooping can help you burn just as many calories as the same length of time of an intense workout, such as the treadmill.
For those unable to perform serious aerobic exercises due to health reasons, hula hooping can be their gateway to better health.

Benefit #4: Improves Your Mood
Hula hooping is fun, and it makes exercising less of a chore. To be able to do something fun and see the improvements to your body can brighten your spirit and raise your confidence.

Benefit #5: Improves Your Coordination
Hula hooping requires a certain timing and rhythm. By practicing, your coordination will improve as your body starts to learn this timing. As your skills get better, hula hooping with more than one hoop at once can be challenging and help to improve your coordination even further.

Benefit #6: Improves Flexibility of Your Spine
The motions of hula hooping require a significant range of motion for your spine. Increased practice in hula hooping can train your spine to a greater range of motions than you’re used to, thereby increasing your flexibility.
While hula hoops may seem like child’s toys, you can purchase weighted hula hoops to effectively workout. Hula hooping may be one of the easiest and most fun methods of weight loss that you can find.

Who should not do hula hoop?
• Active cervical and vertigo pain people should avoid doing hula hoop in case of active/ acute pain.
• In case of slip disk please consult your physician before doing hula hoop.
• Pregnant people should avoid hula hoop in case you are new to it.
• Doing hula hoop during headache and migraine should be avoided.

*Atraeyee Niharchandra practices hula hoop regularly and carries out Hula Hoop teaching/exercising sessions with various groups at Bengaluru.

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