{"id":52482,"date":"2011-07-20T12:30:52","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T17:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=52482"},"modified":"2011-07-20T12:51:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T17:51:00","slug":"take-off-the-weight-with-a-hoopnotica-hula-hooping-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/take-off-the-weight-with-a-hoopnotica-hula-hooping-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Off the Weight With a Hoopnotica Hula-Hooping Class"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>By Tish Merritt for FitBottomedGirls.com<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Hula hooping may seem more like playtime than a workout, but if we know anything, it’s that you’re more likely to stick to a workout when it’s actually, you know, fun! And don’t get it twisted — working out with a hula hoop<\/a><\/strong> isn’t a walk (or a swivel) in the park…<\/p>\n

I met up with\u00a0Jackie Hesley<\/a><\/strong>, hoop dancer\u00a0extraordinaire and Hoopnotica<\/a><\/strong> instructor, on a beautiful Saturday morning in the Santa Monica, Cali.,\u00a0area and basically got a nice slice of humble pie served to me on a hoop for breakfast. My boyfriend scoffed the hula hoop,\u00a0stating it wasn\u2019t the kind of workout a guy could get sweat to. Hmph. He came back from running around the park and saw his girl, hula hoopin\u2019 and sweating like I do in his boot-camp classes (he\u2019s a personal trainer<\/a><\/strong> and tortures me regularly in class) and his mouth fell open. Score one for the hula hoop.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t get me wrong, the class is totally fun. Jackie plugs up her iPhone to a small speaker system, and we party like it\u2019s 1999<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 Plus she\u2019s hilarious and nice to boot. She teaches a hodge podge of folks (men and women), so she\u2019s used to different levels of hula-hoop hossness being in her mix, thankfully. I personally hadn\u2019t hooped since probably kindergarten when my boy crush hula-hooped up to me and said he\u2019d marry me if I could hoop for longer than him. I tried. I really did! But, alas, no love connection.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This meant Jackie had to give me some tender lovin\u2019 care on my first day. I learned how to hula the correct <\/em>way (engaging my core<\/a><\/strong> and calming down those wacky hips of mine), as well as how to dance around in a circle while hooping (this killed my legs!) and hooping around my arms, wrists and hands.<\/p>\n

My arms were KILLING me post-workout, folks. I loved it! I don\u2019t know about you, but I want to know my muscles are\u00a0working. And the best part? The hour flew by without me even realizing how hard I was working.\u00a0I was just playing around, hula hoopin\u2019 my little core off and trying to be a fairy of fury like Jackie. (She told me a man from her class does a wickedly good impression of her flittering about. It\u2019s true, too. She\u2019s totally a hilarious ball of sunshine.)<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re in a rut or you just haven\u2019t found a workout that works for you yet, I recommend trying a hula-hoop class. You can burn up to 400 to 600 calories in an hour, meet fun people and learn what it feels like to throw some exercise into your mix that makes you feel like a kid again. Like Jackie, my hula-hoop hoss told me, you tend to leave all your worries and stresses at home. Hula-heads don\u2019t have time for stress\u2014you\u2019re much too busy trying to make sure you don\u2019t smack your shins with a huge hoop.<\/p>\n

I plan to grab a bunch of my friends together and treat them to a class soon. It\u2019s just too awesome not to share. If you\u2019re interested in becoming a hula-head like me, check out the Hoopnotica website<\/a> <\/strong>to find a teacher near you. New hoopers are always welcome!<\/p>\n

Also Read:<\/strong><\/p>\n

5 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Weight Loss<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Real Men Do (or At Least Try) Pilates<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Eat More Food and Lose Weight\u2014Really!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Tish Merritt for FitBottomedGirls.com Hula hooping may seem more like playtime than a workout, but if we know anything, it’s that you’re more likely to stick to a workout when it’s actually, you know, fun! And don’t get it … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[5365,8196,23,8657,3321],"class_list":["post-52482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness","tag-fit-bottomed-girls","tag-group-fitness-classes","tag-guest-blog","tag-hoopnotica","tag-hula-hoop"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52482"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52546,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52482\/revisions\/52546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}