Annette Fragale Started Teaching Hooping at 70
Annette Fragale, 76, was featured this weekend in the Star Tribune for her incredible body. How did the host of the local television show “Yoga on the Go” get it? Annette shared her fitness passions with readers which include yoga, hooping, pilates and Chinese wand. In fact, the proud mother of five and grandmother of eleven started teaching hooping when she was 70. She said, “I started teaching hula hooping at 70. In class, I first let them get used to the hoop. Then we do the YMCA, the Yellow Rose of Texas, the Hokey Pokey. We use the hoop as a weight and do yoga with it. The 90 minutes fly by. We throw balls back and forth while hooping. It’s the most fun of anything I teach.” Annette is super active. In fact she has a trampoline that she uses almost every day while she’s watching Jeopardy. “I’m in very good health; I haven’t been to a doctor in 40 years. I don’t take anything. I think exercise is the best form of medication you can do for yourself. I’m truly a late bloomer!” She lives in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota.
