Hula Hoop: Helps Women Lose Weight and Avoid Back Pain

If you know that hula hooping helps you lose weight and avoid back pain, you will definitely try to learn hula hooping to practice every day.

Surely when mentioning hula hooping, you will immediately imagine the image of circus performers with big and small hoops on their hands and waists. And you secretly admire her for being so good at hula hooping while you thought you couldn’t even though you never tried.

But if you know the benefits of hula hooping, you will definitely try to learn hula hooping to practice every day, especially when you are bored with jogging and want to find a new and more attractive sport.

If you hula hoop regularly, you will soon realize that hula hooping has the following effects:

- Weight loss: Hula hooping has a small impact on the heart, strengthens the pelvic muscles, tones the stomach, abdomen, arms, legs and hips... therefore can help you burn a lot of calories (about 350-600 calories/hour).

In addition, hula hooping is also the most popular technique to help you have a toned waist. A little tip to increase the effectiveness of this exercise is to stand with one foot in front and one foot behind. The hula hooping time is 6-7 minutes depending on the health of each person. Every 30 minutes of exercise, you will consume 200 calories, even more if you are trying to lose weight.

Hula hooping helps lose weight and avoid back pain

- Reduce chronic back pain: Sitting at the computer for a long time often causes our muscles to become tired, leading to chronic back pain over time. However, when hula hooping, the circular motion helps increase blood circulation, thereby reducing muscle pain and tightening muscles. In addition, this exercise can also improve your posture as well as make muscle stiffness and back pain disappear.

- Has the effect of meditation: Hula hooping is also considered a movement that has the effect of releasing energy. The circle has long been considered a symbol of wisdom, so it is believed that the gentle movement of the body when shaking the hoop to keep the hoop from falling will be like meditation and create energy along the spine. Therefore, the hula hooping movement has the effect of promoting circulation in the body, while releasing energy.

However, although hula hooping has such great effects, women also need to pay attention to their health when practicing this movement. You should only practice at a moderate level and for a reasonable amount of time to avoid making the body tired, which can easily lead to muscle and joint injuries.

How to hula hoop:

- Stand up straight with your feet slightly apart. Beginners can place one foot slightly in front for better balance.

- Hold the hoop with both hands and place it at your waist, partially touching your back.

- Do not use your hands, use your waist to hold the hula hoop around your waist in a counterclockwise direction.

The first few times you practice, you may be worried because you don't know how to keep the hoop from falling. But after that, the smooth movement of your body will help you keep the hoop balanced better.

You can combine dancing with hula hooping - this is a fun way that music and dance lovers love. They combine it to keep their bodies toned.

According to Tri Thuc Tre - NT