PART ONE:  Abs, Abs, and More, well, abs!

Note:  In this tutorial we used the Weighted Exercise Hoop Vinyl Tapes.   However, you can use any hoop to perform these exercises.

Today’s challenge teaches you how to challenge your abdominals and core with additional exercises using your hoop.  If you find these challenging, make the modifications suggested in the video and always begin any new exercise conservatively to avoid excessive soreness.  If you are just beginning to do core work, please don’t do more than one set of these exercises.

IT’S A SUPERBOWL DANCE COMBINATION CHALLENGE!

In this challenge, we teach you a basic hoop dance combination using a half horizontal toss, pass, and reverse escalator kick out.  You can use a dance hoop or weighted fitness hoop to perform this combination, but admittedly lighter dance hoops will be a bit easier than weighted fitness hoops.

Upload your photos or videos of you practicing the combination to your Facebook timeline or Instagram and use the hashtag #canyonhoopssuperbowl  We will be featuring our favorites on our Facebook page during the Super Bowl on Sunday!  All photos should be posted by Saturday, February 6 at 11pm PST for consideration.

SUPERBOWL DANCE COMBINATION CHALLENGE – PART 2

In this challenge, we are adding on to the dance combination from Part 1.  We continue the series by adding an escalator and float to the end of the sequence!  You can use a dance hoop or weighted fitness hoop to perform this combination, but admittedly lighter dance hoops will be a bit easier than weighted fitness hoops.

Winter weather and small spaces don’t have to derail your hoop dance and fitness progress.  So many of you have asked for hula hoop tricks and exercises you can do with your fitness and dance hoops inside small spaces. So today, we’ve compiled a list of hoop tricks and exercises to try that will keep you on track without breaking a lamp in the process!

Get the Skinny on Waist Trimmers

What You Can Really Expect From a Waist Trimmer

Today we’re going to break down when and why you should consider using a neoprene waist trimmer in your hula hoop dance and fitness practice and what results you can realistically expect.  AND, you’re going to love this.  A protocol to use with the waist trimmer to jump start your results and put you into fat burning mode during and after your workout.

Top 15 Hula Hooping Apps

Learn which of these top 15 hula hooping apps just might take you from beginner to expert.  Technology can make not only our schedules and productivity more efficient, but it can take your hula hoop dance and fitness practice to the next level.  So today, we’ve complied our 15 most interesting and applicable apps that can help you:

• take your hoop dance from bad to mad,
• teach you how to incorporate your hula hoop with total body conditioning,
• track your nutrition if weight loss is your goal,
• manage learning your hoop tricks,
• provide music variety and consistent beats per minute
• improve coordination of your brain and body movements,
• improve sleep to help reduce cortisol and boost weight loss results (check out our article on how hooping can boost your mood)

Background

Judy wrote to us asking for help in possibly ordering a new hoop size or how to best work with her exercise hula hoop she already purchased.  Judy is 75 and had never hooped before purchasing her 42” weighted exercise hoop from Canyon Hoops.  She learned to hoop by watching our Hoop Fitness DVD and was super excited to learn that she could hoop at 75 for the first time!  She mentioned that she experienced soreness above her right hip after hooping and as a result had taken time off from hooping.  She wrote in to ask whether she should get a different hoop size or what she could do differently.

Steal These Strategies

I recently sat down for a goal setting session with a client and one of her goals was to “lose the jiggle”.  Are you in a similar situation?  You order a fitness hoop to help lose your belly fat and want to know where to start?  Today I’m going to give you strategies to help move fat loss along.  And these tips aren’t about the specifics of your exercise program or your nutrition strategy, but rather how you set up your environment so you can stop white knuckling it through the process.