Tag Archives: Losing Weight

What a Difference a Year of Hooping Makes

by Clair Ching One year and 30 pounds ago, I picked up my first hoop from Hoopaholic Cebu. Thanks to watching a hoop performance and reading an article about how hooping could be good exercise,…

Grace Gladhill Lost Weight Hooping and Started a Business

Two-and-a-half years ago Grace Gladhill was down on her luck. She had stopped working as a server in downtown Frederick and her almost five-year relationship had recently ended. The 31-year-old had been looking for an…

Carla Snow Spins Up Weight Loss and a Career in Edmonton

In Canada, hooping culture is growing in Edmonton. In fact, Carla Snow of Flowlab quit her job as an accountant to become a full-time hooper making her own hoops and teaching workshops and hooping classes.…

Jen and Keith Moore Hoop It Up on The Doctors

Jen and Keith Moore recently made an appearance on The Doctors, an American syndicated television talk show. The episode on which they appeared featured 100,000 pounds worth of weight loss secrets. Jen and her husband…

Alexandria Truex Lost 65 Pounds Hooping

Alexandria Truex of Dutruex Hula Hoops, aka Allie Wolf, started her hooping weight loss journey two years ago and now she’s lost 65 pounds. She says, “I started my journey at 200 pounds, I am…

Stacie Meredith Gets High On Hooping

When Stacie Meredith of Holy Hoop.com is lost in the rhythm of her hula hoop while dancing to music there is a high she cannot describe. “I drop into a flow and only hear the…

Anna Haller Has Erie Hooping It Up

Anna Haller, 30, stepped into a well-rounded and inexpensive fitness routine that’s fun and can be done anywhere. That’s right, hooping! She started spinning it up eight-years-ago when her two daughters were small and the…

Theresa Rose Lost 50 Pounds Hula Hooping

Theresa Rose, aka The Hoop Woman, lost 50 pounds by hula hooping and and WCCO Channel 4 in Minnesota got the inside story. Rose is also a motivational speaker who uses the hoop to inspire…