Day 1/100: Springtime hooping begins!

I have my calendar out! I marked the days and I'm SOOOO excited for the results. I've been doing some fast walking but not skipping my dessert so I've bulked up with muscle and chub and I'm ready to slender up for that summer bathing suit. We moved near a lake and I'd kinda like not to have to wear a shirt over my suit to swim with the girls. I'm over reliving my preteen body issues. Once again, I will follow the 5 days on, 2 days off method... I think Monday and Thursday will be my off-days since those are the days I like to dedicate to hoopmaking and landscaping my  new home

I think I'll make myself a 1/2" and 3/4" 160 psi hoop so I can get 3 levels of hooping. I don't really like the heavier hoop but for waist hooping only its nice to jiggle things up and out.

I'll record my progress with videos more this time so you can all get a sense of how my hooping changes over the next few months.

Now to start looking for videos to get my curriculum set up... I'll post them here as I see them.

Day 3: Hooping for another 100 days! DIET and EXERCISE

I'm off again! This time I really just wanted to hoop for 30 minutes a day again. I have been more "go with the flow" this time, and its working wonders. I've made up a few moves that look cool that incorporate a vertical knee stop on my right leg, then I grab the hoop with my left hand to swing it around my thumb behind my back while I drop down, then I grab the hoop with my right hand and stop it on my left knee then reverse the above move over and over. It looks pretty awesome - would look better if I had flippy-long hair then I could go all the way down and back up with a trail of hair!!

My overall flow is much better after just 3 days. Maybe its the radio - but whatever it is I think having music to jam to and time/space to do it is a MAJOR factor.

I haven't figured out which day will by me "off" day yet. I think Sunday since I will be working for my mum this weekend. And a general break day is always needed - especially for a 100 day excursion like this.


As for my diet: I will be utilizing the 1-2-3-3 method (I just made it up but I'm sure something exists!)

1 whole gluten-free grains (1 GF toast/ 1/2 C rice / 1/2 GF pizza crust)
2 fruits (anything that can be in one handful except dried fruits)
3 proteins (3oz. LEAN meat / 2 eggs / 1/2 C beans / 1 oz. beef jerky / 1/2 C nuts/seeds)
3 vegetables (1/2 C any UNCOOKED or LIGHTLY STEAMED veggie, 2 C greens)

Unlimited black coffee/tea (stevia english toffee sweet drops, no creamer)
Beyond Tangy Tangerine (or similar vitamin powder with water)
EFAs
1/2 your body weight in ounces of water

NO artificual colors/flavors/ sweeteners/anything
NO dairy/gluten/fatty meats

So with this diet and hooping for 100 days we'll see where it lands me!

Starting weight: 155
Goal weight: I don't care, haha... I just want to feel more healthy/strong

Let's hoop!

Day 19!!!!

Today was a total non-hooping day for me. I really wanted to go out to breakfast with my family and when I got home I had to squirm to wrap and tape 10 hoops! I wonder if I should count hoopmaking as hooping. I swear I burn just as many calories and I love them both! haha... I won't let myself off the hook just yet. There are 5 more hours in this day and I will get in my rotation soon.

To recap:

Week 3: OPPOSITE DIRECTION
Now that you got your legs and arms trained its time to work on your opposite direction, or the reverse flow of your hoop. Think of the hoop tricks you like the most, now let's reverse it!  My natural flow is clockwise and I am right handed. So this week I will NOT use my right hand and will only hoop counter clockwise during my first 15 minutes. Also, when doing hoop tricks, I will hoop on my left leg, not my right (I am right dominate) In the last 20 minutes of free hoopdancing I will resume using my dominate direction and arm/leg.
Homework: Find 3 hoop videos that are different from how you hoopdance, See what they do that you don't. Do you like it? Do you want to incorporate it? Try to during your 20 minutes!


Day 15, 16, Stretch for 5 minutes, If you can, try your 3 leg hoop tricks in the opposite direction, free hoopdancing for 20 minutes. Stretch for 5 minutes
Day 17. REST DAY
Day 18 Stretch for 5 minutes, Opposite Direction (Clockwise/counter-clockwise) hoopdancing for 15 minutes, free hoopdancing for 20 minutes, Stretch for 5 minutes
Day 19, 20, Stretch for 5 minutes, Opposite Arm/Leg Dominate hoopdancing for 15 minutes, free hoopdancing for 20 minutes, Stretch for 5 minutes
Day 21, REST DAY

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I am not going to let today's activities keep me from spinning! I have been thinking of hooping all day as I wrapped the bubbles around my precious creations and all I wanted to do was spin them in a golden grassy field! I think my time to shine is coming. If not in the hoop, by making them at least. I am very impressed with what I have been accomplishing lately. I just wish I could be making my streamerhoops in massive production right now. There isn't much I can do about it: they are just too time consuming for people to purchase them from me. I also need more designs, I only have the ones I created currently (4 to be exact) and all my ribbon is in storage! Its probably only 45 minutes deep into my container, and yet so far away...

I am very anxious to make a Om Mani Padme Hum hoop!!! I wish those tibetan prayer flags would get here! I guess they take awhile to ship since they are coming from around the world. No worries. I can wait for a good thing.

Zora is waking up now, crying for me to come cuddle. So I better go! Tata.!.!

Day 9: Rocking out

So today was another leg day, but I was a little disappointed in my inability to do the thigh trick by Babz. I don't think there is enough area between my thighs to even grab the hoop, let alone spin it on my thighs (a feat in its own.) I am going to trade that move for another.

I have got that foot pass almost NAILED! I just need to remember to fully bend my knee to grab the hoop. The back-spinning hoop to one legged hooping won't work for me. I like to keep my hoops pretty and realized I don't want to backspin them. I hoop outside on the dirt and the cement, both are not very nice to gaffers tape! So no more of that move either.

Instead I am doing knee breaks from elbow hooping and one-legged hooping. One legged hooping should evolve into hooping on my arms (one vertical, one horizontal) and my legs (ditto). I need to get started adding hoops to do some multis.

I was thinking of hooping again tomorrow but not until my homework is finished! I had a blast of customers today and I gotta finish up my hoopmaking. I made 4 of 12 already. Not too difficult, I love making them really so the time flies. I will probably even have time to hoop after I mail them ^_^

Breast Cancer and Chest Hula Hooping

First I would like to say that this post is not a scientific fact, however, it is based on scientific evidence and deserves to be heard!

Core hooping is inarguably beneficial to your lymphatic system because as the hoop revolves around your body it massages and pumps your lymph nodes which can only circulate out the toxins if the muscles around them are moving. There are not muscles in the breast, and the best way to get those lymphs moving is to make sure they keep moving! Having breasts constantly squeezed in decreases the outflow of toxins. I've recently discovered information about the increase of breast cancer among women who wear bras. A book titled Dressed to Kill by Sydney Ross Singer and Soma Grismaijer breaks down the notion that wearing a bra increases the risk of breast cancer because it restricts the natural movement of the lymphatic system within the tissues of the breast. There is about a 125 time fold increase in breast cancer compared to women who do not wear them.

As a woman with a 36D breast size and having worn a bra since I was 12 years old, I know that when you move, your breasts move. I started off small and saw that my grandmother, a women who I apparently had the same "figure" as, was very large chested. I was told that to avoid this, I was going to need to wear a bra which would restrict their movement, keep them from sagging, and possible make them smaller. Well that sounded great to me! However that is not what happened. And I currently feel betrayed that this information was possibly even the opposite of what needed to be done. Apparently going bra free can assist in retaining the elasticity in breasts to keep them from sagging. I still grew a large bust and with breast cancer looming in on both sides of my family, I am seeking methods to avoid this dark booby-hating monster.

If there is NO WAY you're going to get rid of your bra, maybe there is still a way to help decrease the risk of getting breast cancer. I think chest hooping or rebounding (jumping on trampolines, pogo sticks, or anything that bounces you!) can help.

I remember the first time I "got" chest hooping. It hurt. From then on I avoided it because I thought it would make my breasts bruised, weak, or heaven forbid SAGGY! Well now I think that is not true. Just as I trained my breasts when I was 12 into being confined, I now want to train them to endure a beating for awhile to make them stronger. I know any pain associated with chest hooping will subside. It will increase the blood flow, strengthen the tired tendons, give my lymphatic system a jolt, and aid in overall health!

Its strange to think that the constant massaging that a hoop does when it is going around my body could be in any way helping it. But it is a fact that massaging the lymph nodes is healthy and will decrease the risk of cancer. So I can put two and two together! I've also heard that a trampoline can decrease lymphatic cysts after just 2 weeks! I think chest hooping should be added to the list of prevention cures. While we cannot find something to obliterate the disease, we can do anything in our power to prevent it. And since lymphatic cysts are decreased after they have been discovered, I guess it really does obliterate it too.

A healthy lymphatic system can help you cure everything from cellulite to cancer. I think chest hooping has the potential to decrease breast cancer  because of its effects on pumping/circulating the contents of the lymphatic system in the chest region. I think it should be recognized as an effective workout for lymphatic diseases anywhere on the body as it can be used on several parts of the body.

Week2: Day 8 - LEGS

So yesterday I did my homework and picked out some videos of some rad leg hooping tricks. 

Vertical Thigh Breaks!

 

Backspin into One Leg Hooping!

 

And lastly, though there were MANY more tricks I wanted to try out this week...

Leg Reversal from Waist Hooping:

 

As it stands, many of the leg hooping tricks I admire are broadcasted by the talented Babz Robinson. She is one inventful hooper!

Some of the tricks I want to do next time are a little more advanced and require an advanced skill in foot hooping. Those include  Foot Lasso and The Scorpion.