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How Many Calories Can I Burn Hula Hooping?

February 10, 2010 in Mailbag

mailbox Hey Hooping.org -
I’ve been thinking lately about the various claims out there about how many calories hooping burns – one sees anywhere between 300 and 800 (!?) per hour. The upper echelon of the scale just seems way out-there to me — and what in the world are they basing it on? Any chance your detective skills and readers can get to the bottom of this for us all?
Love, Lara
Dear Lara,
How many calories an individual burns hula hooping will always be relative, but the scientific claim we stand behind is 100 calories in 10 minutes. Some using simple math have thus concluded 60 minutes equals 600 calories. This may be true in theory, and you can burn 600 calories doing many high impact aerobic exercises, but in reality it’s unlikely. The initial energy burning spike begins to decrease after ten minutes. Whether you’re sweating in an intensive hoop aerobics class or dreamily hoop dancing to Imogen Heap on a sunny day also plays a factor, as does your body weight and the weight of your hoop. That’s why giving a range – 300 to 600 calories – is accurate and useful.
Hooping.org

Mailbag: Knee Pain?

January 28, 2008 in Fresh, Health and Spirit, Mailbag

mailbox Dear Hooping.org:
I have been hooping since summer, but need some advice and am hoping you and your readers might be able to help. No matter what I do to avoid it, hooping seems to hurt my left knee. It’s breaking my heart because hooping is so much fun and such a great workout, but every time I do it, I can’t bend my knee afterwards without having extreme pain that lasts until I stop hooping all together. It does clear it up within a few weeks, but who wants to stop hooping?. Does anyone else have this kind of problem? What have you done to avoid injury? Or am I just doomed because I hurt my knee playing sand volleyball many years ago? – Aimee

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Help! My Hoops Aren’t Turning Out Right

October 25, 2007 in Fresh, Mailbag

mailbox “Dear Hooping.org, I am having a problem making hoops and I can not find an answer for this anywhere. I ordered 160 pvc piping and the connectors that fit them. I followed Jason’s instructions, cut and heated the pipe and inserted the connectors. However, no matter how much I heat it I can not get the connector in all the way. My second problem is that the tube will not lay flat on the floor once it is connected. I have pushed and bent it but it just will not make a nice circle. I don’t know if the connectors are too long and they are warping the hoop or if it just the hoop material that is no good. If you could please help me that would be great.
Thanks,
Ammy in Virgnia

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Will Hooping Help Me?

May 16, 2007 in Fresh, Health and Spirit, Mailbag

mailbox Rhonda writes, “Dear Hooping.org. I’m just starting out. I have lower back problems – it’s fused, but my tummy is huge after losing 70 lbs. and I can’t find anything to help make it smaller. Will hooping help? Also I walk kind of hunched over because my muscles are all so weak and walking alone isn’t enough. Can hooping help me?”
- Rhonda T., Imperial, CA
Hooping.org isn’t really qualified to answer this question other than to simply say yes, but we know there are those of you out there with more health related expertise, as well as personal experience. So we ask you, dear hooping community, what do you think?

Amanda Gives Thanks

April 8, 2007 in Fresh, Mailbag

mailbox Dear Hooping.org!
I just wanted to thank you all. I’m 17 now and I’ve been hooping since elementary school. I just taught myself random things when I was a kid. I found this website, and now I can do so much more because of the inspiration it brought to me. I recently participated in my school talent show and I was a big hit, mostly because of the great information provided by hooping.org. So thank you to everyone who contributes to and runs hooping.org!
Always keep hooping,
Amanda

A Hoop Group Blooms in Connecticut

March 31, 2007 in Fresh, Mailbag

mailbox Hi Hooping.org!
Just checking in to let you know I listened to your advice. No instruction necessary. Just gather people and start hooping. Thats what I have done and now I have a group on Monday nights, Wednesday nights and Saturday morning. I am getting the Northeast community of Connecticut and Rhode Island hooping and spreading the joy. I’m even planning to gather everyone over the summer and have a great big HOOP day. Thanks for your encouragement!
JudiAnn, So. Killingly, Connecticut