Shannon Herrington Gets Central Kentucky Hooping

Hooping.org columnist Shannon Herrington is in the news! The Jessamine Journal reports, “For years, Shannon Herrington jumped through the hoops of different fitness programs without finding any for which she felt real passion. She weighed 300 pounds in 2006 and felt socially awkward. Four years later, some of the weight was gone, but she had still not found the purpose she was looking for. Then she found the big hoops. Hooping has changed Herrington’s life…” She explained, “I was addicted; I craved hooping. I basically stopped the diet, but I exercised. I’ve never been one of those people that exercised just to exercise; I had to be on a diet to exercise. But I was exercising just because it was fun.” Herrington, who most recently wrote For The Love of Plus-Size Hoopers Everywhere, is an instructor certified through BodyHoops. She also has goals of getting local people in Jessamine County inside the hoop. She hosted hoop jams last summer in public parks, she plans to have a hoop-building workshop at the Jessamine County Public Library this summer, and she’s currently in the middle of an effort to bring a screening of the documentary film The Hooping Life to Nicholasville. Full story: The Jessamine Journal.

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