Hoop for 100 Day Group on HOOPCITY.CA:
http://www.hoopcity.ca/group/hoop-for-100-days-challenge
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I'm no savant and I confess to not being able to track 100 days in my head. So I am going to get out the calendar and write a number a a checkbox to get me motivated and in it for the long haul. I think this calendar will help others if they are interested in a 100 day challenge as well. As a hooper I tried to remember all the lessons I learned from instructors and how I can blend the questions they helped me ask into a format where you can ask yourself the same questions!
Resuming my 100 day challenge:
I just searched the hula hoop archives on YouTube.com and it has me pretty motivated! I also want to make a "Watch me Lose Weight" variation with my hoopdancing. There are a few out there now and they are lovely to watch and I'd love for my results to motivate people too. Pending I get results! haha... I did last time so I know I will this time too. Especially since I'm much more aware of foods now.
For instance I'm avoiding gluten since my husband discovered it was bad for bellies (which pretty much makes it disappear from the dinner table). Hopefully that'll give me the strength I need in the battle over my bulge.
I now only need to find a good time of day to hoop it up. I am in the countryside and the mosquitos are killer at dusk/night time. I think the early morning may be my only time that won't give me a heat stroke too. It was 109 yesterday and I ain't gonna let the heat keep me from sweatin'.
I also want to make videos. I did this last time but lost them all and it was very upsetting. However I am having a bit of a confidence issue. I sell hoops online and I guess I don't want people thinking "wow, she's fat and she sells hoops for weight loss, they must not work... " so on. Let me tell you now that BABIES MADE ME FAT. haha... and my lack of willpower over gluten. Both of which are not in my life (except the babies are in my life, just not in my tum). I want to inspire, be inspired, and keep up the conversation of hoops as a great weight loss tool.
If I've learned anything from the OTHER weight loss programs I've been looking at, its that every week has to be different. So I am going to mix it up. Also, there must be RESTING! So I am going to substitute some of the work to other days to allow for resting. Here is my outline for the 100 days!
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Week 1: LEGS
Homework: Look up 3 video tutorials from YouTube that involve hooping tricks with your legs - Make sure to bookmark them! (Some tricks to get you started: hooping below your knees, hooping on one leg, kicking while hooping on one leg, passing the hoop from your hand to your foot while laying on back)
ALSO THIS WEEK. TAKE A BEFORE PHOTO OR VIDEO OF YOURSELF. YOU CAN BE STANDING OR HOOPDANCING. IT WILL HELP TO MOTIVATE YOU, I CAN'T STRESS THIS ENOUGH. DOCUMENT YOUR BODY MEASUREMENTS TOO IF YOU'D LIKE!
Day 1,2, Stretch for 5 minutes, Try to master hoop tricks for 15 minutes, free hoopdancing for 20 minutes, Stretch for 5 minutes
Day 3, REST DAY
Day 4, 5 6, Stretch for 5 minutes, Try to master hoop tricks for 15 minutes, free hoopdancing for 20 minutes, Stretch for 5 minutes
Day 7, REST DAY
Week 2: ARMS
Homework: If you have twins or minis - use them! Look up 3 video tutorials from YouTube that involve
hooping tricks with your arms (not tosses)- Make sure to bookmark them! (Some tricks
to get you started: thread the needle, isolations, making poi flowers, lasso, horizontal isolation, vortex)
Day 8, 9, Stretch for 5 minutes, Try to master hoop tricks for 15 minutes, free hoopdancing for 20 minutes, Stretch for 5 minutes
Day 10, REST DAY
Day 11, 12, 13 Stretch for 5 minutes, Try to master hoop tricks for 15 minutes, free hoopdancing for 20 minutes, Stretch for 5 minutes
Day 14, REST DAY
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
Week 4: TRANSFORM
There's been a lot of input lately, now its time for the output. Its time to evolve, transform, create! Play with your hoop this week and work on something you've found yourself creating. Stop yourself halfway through a move and find out where the hoop is, now stop the direction it is going and move it somewhere else. Make it flow? Did you just create something new?? Share it on YouTube if you want. I'm sure by now you're getting pretty darn good at hooping.
Avoid watching YouTube videos this week. Let your body guide you to create something original. Make a video on YouTube and share it. It may even have been made up by someone already, but that's okay! Make a video anyways! Everybody is different and the same move will inevitably look different for each person.
Day 22, 23, Stretch for 5 minutes, Manipulate the hoop and do moves you don't usually do while hooping, even if you're not good at them. If you like a certain move see if you can make a variation of it. Do this for 15 minutes. Even if you're standing there listening to music and imagining moves that is fine. Give yourself the time to create. Free Hoopdancing for 20 minutes, stretch for 5 minutes
Day 24, REST DAY
Day 25, 26, 27 Its time to close your eyes. As advised from Baxter of HoopPath, using a blindfold or closing your eyes and FEELING the hoop can help you develop certain senses that will change the way you hoop. Stretch for 5 then try this for your first 15 minutes on these days. Free Hoopdancing for 20 then stretch another 5.
Day 28, REST
Week 5: ISOLATIONS
Isolations are very popular tricks that can be translated to any of the 3 dimensions. Look up videos on YouTube for video tutorials, pick 3 you really like then work on mastering them this week.
Day 29, 30, Stretch for 5 minutes, Try to master hoop tricks for 15
minutes, free hoopdancing for 20 minutes, Stretch for 5 minutes
Day 31, REST DAY
Day 32, 33, 34 Stretch for 5 minutes, Try to master hoop tricks for
15 minutes, free hoopdancing for 20 minutes, Stretch for 5 minutes
Day 35, REST DAY
Week 6: VERTICAL
It can get pretty boring standing there with the hoop and feeling like you are completely rooted. This week lets get some height. Throw the hoop, jump, roll, lay down, Its time to move up and down the vertical dimension.
Homework: Find 3 more videos where a hoopdancer is using their vertical plane. Let's not forget POI videos have vertical plane
videos that you can translate to hooping!
Day 36, Day 37, Stretch for 5 minutes, Toss the hoop in a pizza toss, straight up from elbow hooping, Anyway you can toss the hoop or keep from having it in your hands (but not on the ground), do it! Do this for 15 minutes. Free Hoopdancing for 20 minutes, Stretch for 5 minutes
Day 38, REST DAY
Day 39,Stretch for 5 minutes, Jumpin Jelly beans! Jump into your hoop, roll it horizontally and try to jump over,
Day 40, 41, Stretch for 5, Get grounded. Lay on your back and leg hoop, do whatever you can to get low. Pretend you are in martial arts, or you are sitting on a horse. Bend you knees to a right angle, step down on your knees when you go low and then up to your tippy toes when you go high. Really excentuate the vertical plane! Beautiful! Do this for 15 minutes then resume free hoopdancing for 20 and stretch for 5.
Day 42, REST DAY
Week 7: HORIZONTAL
Open your arms wide with a hoop in one of your arms, feel the stretch across the front of you chest. During this week try to have your muscles make this feeling as often as you can. Its time to open your heart and move along the horizontal plane.
Homework: Find 3 more videos where a hoopdancer is using their horizontal plane. Don't forget POI videos!
Day 43, 44 , Stretch for 5 minutes, Try sustained spinning and move the hoop in the same direction you are spinning, most moves are forced into the horizontal plane and this will help you identify what moves those are, when not spinning, practice those horizontal moves! Don't forget your opposite directions, ... 15 minutes, free hoopdancing for 20 minutes, then stretch for 5 minutes.
Day 45, REST DAY
Day 46, 47, 48, 5 minute stretch,Excentuate the horizontal plane by jetting your arm out to its side during your moves. See if you can get 5 hoops on your body at once (definitely an advanced move, practice more horizontal plane moves for 15 minutes, free hoopdancing for 20 minutes, 5 minute stretch
Day 49, REST DAY
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Week 8: LEGS
Homework: Look up 3 video tutorials from
YouTube that involve hooping tricks with your legs - Make sure to
bookmark them! (Some tricks to get you started: hooping below your
knees, hooping on one leg, kicking while hooping on one leg, passing the
hoop from your hand to your foot while laying on back)
Day 50, 51, Stretch for 5 minutes, Try to master hoop tricks for 15 minutes, free hoopdancing for 20 minutes, Stretch for 5 minutes
Day 52, REST DAY
Day 53, 54 55, Stretch for 5 minutes, Try to master hoop tricks for 15 minutes, free hoopdancing for 20 minutes, Stretch for 5 minutes
Day 56, REST DAY
Week 9: ARMS
Homework: If you have twins or minis - use them! Look up 3 video tutorials from YouTube that involve
hooping tricks with your arms (not tosses)- Make sure to bookmark them! (Some tricks
to get you started: thread the needle, isolations, making poi flowers, lasso, horizontal isolation, vortex)
Day 57, 58, Stretch for 5 minutes, Try to master hoop tricks for 15
minutes, free hoopdancing for 20 minutes, Stretch for 5 minutes
Day 59, REST DAY
Day 60, 61, 62 Stretch for 5 minutes, Try to master hoop tricks for
15 minutes, free hoopdancing for 20 minutes, Stretch for 5 minutes
Day 63, REST DAY
Week 10: OPPOSITE DIRECTION
We did this before but now we are going to go beyond the level we were before! Try your new 6 tricks from the past 2 weeks for your opposite direction and dominate leg/arms.
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 64, 65, 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 66, REST DAY
Day 67 Stretch for 5 minutes, Opposite Direction (Clockwise/counter-clockwise) hoopdancing for 15 minutes, free hoopdancing for 20 minutes, Stretch for 5 minutes
Day 68, 69, Stretch for 5 minutes, Opposite Arm/Leg Dominate hoopdancing for 15 minutes, free hoopdancing for 20 minutes, Stretch for 5 minutes
Day 70, REST DAY
Week 11: TRANSFORM
Its my favorite week again. Hoopdancing to music and freeing and will unravel your creative side. Trust me on this! You can take it easy this week and if you feel the creative juices flowing, feel free to use them on your rest days to pick up a craft or something new. Let your outside creativity influence your hooping.
Day 71, 72, Stretch for 5 minutes, Manipulate the hoop and do
moves you don't usually do while hooping, even if you're not good at
them. If you like a certain move see if you can make a variation of it.
Do this for 15 minutes. Even if you're standing there listening to music
and imagining moves that is fine. Give yourself the time to create.
Free Hoopdancing for 20 minutes, stretch for 5 minutes
Day 73, REST DAY
Day 74, 75, 76 Its time to close your eyes again.
Stretch for 5 then try this for your first 15 minutes on these days.
Free Hoopdancing for 20 then stretch another 5.
Day 77, REST
Week 12: ISOLATIONS
Try to incorporate the isolations you learned on Week 5 into your dancing with a better flow. Stand in front of a mirror and make sure the hoop doesn't move while you are doing your isolations, this will help you to get a better handle of its movement.
Day 78, 79, Stretch for 5 minutes, Perfect your isolations for 15
minutes, free hoopdancing for 20 minutes, Stretch for 5 minutes
Day 80, REST DAY
Day 81, 82, 83, Stretch for 5 minutes, Perfect your isolations for
15 minutes, free hoopdancing for 20 minutes, Stretch for 5 minutes
Day 84, REST DAY
Week 13: Move your legs
Pretend you are walking on fire this week. Be light on your feet and fly. Try skipping and hooping if you can't think of anything else.
Day 85,86 stretch for 5 minutes, light on your feet hooping for 15 minutes, free hoopdancing for 20 minutes, stretch for 5 minutes
Day 87, REST DAY
Day 88, 89, 90, stretch for 5 minutes, light on your feet hooping for 15 minutes, free hoopdancing for 20 minutes, stretch for 5 minutes
Day 91, REST DAY
Week 14: The Final Countdown
Remember those 12 arm tricks and 12 leg tricks you worked on? Hopefully you have been writing them down or still have them bookmarked. Now... DON'T DO ANY OF THEM! Haha, got you. Now its time to create again. You will find that when hoopdancing you get into a rut of doing the same moves over and over. If you don't feel this way you are one of the few. If you're like me, about now you are wanting to do something different, something that looks unbalanced. I would recommend looking into local dance classes to add dance styles to your dancing and some yoga to improve your flexibility. You can add bellydancing, acroyoga, yoga, and even ballet into hoopdancing. Take a Zumba class, even. You will have a lot to show off after 100 days of hooping. Feel free to go crazy during your last 20 minutes like always, but as for the 24 arm and hoop tricks from before, don't let yourself do em! You may be saying, well... I will just be standing there, Don't let this happen either. I promise you there are moves you haven't learned yet. If you don't know them then you can use YouTube again! Its time to unravel the hoopdancing you've learned thus far.
Day 92, 93, stretch 5 minutes unravelled hoopdancing without 24 tricks for 15 minutes, free hoopdancing 20 minutes, stretch 5 minutes
Day 94, REST DAY
Day 95, 96, 5 minutes stretch , 15 minutes unravelled hoopdancing without 24 tricks, free hoopdancing 20 minutes, stretch 5 minutes
Day 97, REST DAY
Day 98, 5 minutes to stretch, 15 minutes of unravelled hoopdancing without 24 tricks, free hoopdancing 20 minutes, stretch 5 minutes
Week 15:
Day 99, REST DAY
Day 100, VICTORY DANCE. MAKE SURE YOU TAKE A VIDEO OF YOUR BEAUTIFUL NEW DANCE!
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Minis, Arm Hoops, and Watching TV
So I have been making and selling some minis lately through my etsy shop and I must say, these things are difficult!
I am a moderately good twin spinner but the minis took my breath away! They are so damned fast! I thought I'd be okay spinning them and watching the TV while Willow (my 3 month old) and Zora (my 2 year old) were cuddled for a nap on the bed. But the hoops flew across the room or hit the ceiling. It wasn't very nice.
I am overly cautious about the UV points here lately. They are at "Very high" 9 points. Apparently at 14 you can go blind or something. That's frightening!
Of course its just another reason why hooping indoors needs to evolve. How can we remove the large object factor? I guess it means I just can't hoopdance. I can waist hoop and stay confined to my 1m^2 area but there's no budging or I'll take out someone's hip or my kids' head.
I am again holding off the dancey dance until I get an mp3 player.
I happened to lose 5 pounds this week NOT exercising. That was pretty exciting but kind of confusing. I think by not working out I ate less and therefore lost weight (thanks to the muscles put on by my faster metabolism due to working out the previous 8 weeks). Maybe I just lost those muscles?? I hope not! I heard when you lose weight you lose 75% fat and 25% lean muscle. Why does the muscle have to leave at all?
Hooping has made my legs look hot. I want to incorporate jumping more into my hooping. I need to get some air!
I am a moderately good twin spinner but the minis took my breath away! They are so damned fast! I thought I'd be okay spinning them and watching the TV while Willow (my 3 month old) and Zora (my 2 year old) were cuddled for a nap on the bed. But the hoops flew across the room or hit the ceiling. It wasn't very nice.
I am overly cautious about the UV points here lately. They are at "Very high" 9 points. Apparently at 14 you can go blind or something. That's frightening!
Of course its just another reason why hooping indoors needs to evolve. How can we remove the large object factor? I guess it means I just can't hoopdance. I can waist hoop and stay confined to my 1m^2 area but there's no budging or I'll take out someone's hip or my kids' head.
I am again holding off the dancey dance until I get an mp3 player.
I happened to lose 5 pounds this week NOT exercising. That was pretty exciting but kind of confusing. I think by not working out I ate less and therefore lost weight (thanks to the muscles put on by my faster metabolism due to working out the previous 8 weeks). Maybe I just lost those muscles?? I hope not! I heard when you lose weight you lose 75% fat and 25% lean muscle. Why does the muscle have to leave at all?
Hooping has made my legs look hot. I want to incorporate jumping more into my hooping. I need to get some air!
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Day -57
I decided to do a countdown until I start 100 days again. Since having my precious second child I've put on all those lovely fat stores again. Needless to say there are several extra inches on my waist and my favorite hoop doesn't stay up as easy as it used to! So what is my plan? Well last pregnancy I lost about 45 pounds hoopdancing and walking. However this took about 18 months. I suppose if you figure 1 pound a week (which is recommended), I lost 1/2 lbs. a week and that is still pretty successful. But I know this time I want to do it in half that time. And I also want to get SMALLER than my prepregnancy weight. I know now that breastfeeding doesn't melt the pounds away. I will not be relying on that and continue to eat 800 calories over my limit or indulge in food simply because I broke a sweat that day.
I will sweat EVERYDAY.
I am anxious to add more high intensity cardio to my hoopdancing. I have been watching some workout videos for inspiration and I think there is a way to add HIIT and hoopdancing. However - here comes the big question - Will the hoop lose its fun? I don't want to overdo it. And honestly I know its only because I'm not hooping right now that I'm even considering that "overdoing it" is possible. You are reading my internal dialogue counteract itself right now.
Whenever I hear a song I like all I can imagine is dancing and hula hooping to it on an mp3 player in a park somewhere. Songs really bridge the hoop from being another boring exercise. Its like dancing to no music if you're just by yourself with a hoop and no tunes. And everytime I have hooped since the baby has come its very impromptu and lacking a musical zest.
I will download/buy some music right this instance! There is no more wallowing in the silence with my potential. All it takes is to get motivated... -57? NO WAY. I am going to start 15 minutes a day for 100 days starting... TOMORROW!
I will sweat EVERYDAY.
I am anxious to add more high intensity cardio to my hoopdancing. I have been watching some workout videos for inspiration and I think there is a way to add HIIT and hoopdancing. However - here comes the big question - Will the hoop lose its fun? I don't want to overdo it. And honestly I know its only because I'm not hooping right now that I'm even considering that "overdoing it" is possible. You are reading my internal dialogue counteract itself right now.
Whenever I hear a song I like all I can imagine is dancing and hula hooping to it on an mp3 player in a park somewhere. Songs really bridge the hoop from being another boring exercise. Its like dancing to no music if you're just by yourself with a hoop and no tunes. And everytime I have hooped since the baby has come its very impromptu and lacking a musical zest.
I will download/buy some music right this instance! There is no more wallowing in the silence with my potential. All it takes is to get motivated... -57? NO WAY. I am going to start 15 minutes a day for 100 days starting... TOMORROW!
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Day 7: If only I could do isolations with my WAIST
I looked up the word "tummy tuck before and after" on google. WHY THE HELL DID I DO THAT? SO GROSS! Google just BEGS for strange inquiries though, doesn't it? But nevertheless... a part of me was astonished. Half of them don't look different at all, the other half... WOW. If the belly button didn't look like it was transplanted from a cadaver and on the verge of rotting off, I'd say that surgery would do wonders for my sag post-pregnacy pouch.
But for the record, I will never get this surgery done. And prior to finding out a few weeks ago that I was going to expect another child, I was steadily losing weight and on the horizon of looking at something that resembled me at 21. Now I am hoping the increased hormones will give me that elasticity required to suck things back into shape. Why couldn't I have my mother's genes? She lost all her baby weight by "magic" after 3 weeks. It literally melted off and she couldn't eat enough. I suppose we all have our unique challenges. At least over 50% of America and can relate with me.
Now.... to my title. I think I CAN do isolations on my waist, but the slow motion hula kind of hurts my ankles. I have been doing a lot of arm isolations so that I can one day pull off the "IsoPOP" as so famously executed by Sir Richard. And doing this is really toning my arms in ways I didn't expect. But as I said before... I could use for some waist toning too!
I was practicing hooping on my thigh, doing a jack rabbit move, then hooping on my other thigh. It was sloppy and I could barely hoop on my thigh without falling over. So that's the next thing to work on... Hooping on my thigh perpendicular to my body with my toes pointed towards the floor.
But for the record, I will never get this surgery done. And prior to finding out a few weeks ago that I was going to expect another child, I was steadily losing weight and on the horizon of looking at something that resembled me at 21. Now I am hoping the increased hormones will give me that elasticity required to suck things back into shape. Why couldn't I have my mother's genes? She lost all her baby weight by "magic" after 3 weeks. It literally melted off and she couldn't eat enough. I suppose we all have our unique challenges. At least over 50% of America and can relate with me.
Now.... to my title. I think I CAN do isolations on my waist, but the slow motion hula kind of hurts my ankles. I have been doing a lot of arm isolations so that I can one day pull off the "IsoPOP" as so famously executed by Sir Richard. And doing this is really toning my arms in ways I didn't expect. But as I said before... I could use for some waist toning too!
I was practicing hooping on my thigh, doing a jack rabbit move, then hooping on my other thigh. It was sloppy and I could barely hoop on my thigh without falling over. So that's the next thing to work on... Hooping on my thigh perpendicular to my body with my toes pointed towards the floor.
Monday, July 11, 2011
Day 6: Taking it easy,
I suppose it should come as no surprise that I am already going to slow down my proposed hooping quota. I have tried this week to hoop at least 10 minutes a day and it has left me with hooping 45 min. one day (Day 2), 10 min (Day 3), 30 min (Day 5), and 20 min today (Day 6). I cannot fathom hooping another hour and 45 minutes all tomorrow! I know I could easily take that on about 3 years ago. Heck, that's how long my hooping sessions would normally be. However I am not ONLY hooping this time, and that makes a big difference.
Another big difference is that because I am already working out (stair climber 500 calories a workout/ 4 days week and Zumba 2-3 days a week), my current hooping is not really for maintaining fitness but for excelling my SKILL/TALENT. I am going to focus my hooping sessions on slower moves that don't take the wind out of me. Due to this, I am going to alter the hooping time/frequency.
I need to maximize my muscle memory. To do this, I must hoop EVERYDAY for 10 minutes. This is not a daunting number that sends chills down my spine. I can go upstairs and do this while hubby watches the babe (She tends to walk right into my hooping session and I will need uninterrupted focus to really practice.
Today when I was slowing down after sweating bullets for 15 minutes straight, I worked on my isolations. They were so sloppy and all over the place! I couldn't believe it. I'm sure my muscle fatigue had a small part in it... but I couldn't get it PERFECT like I was able to at the end of my other 100 hoop challenge.
In order to maximize my at-home perfection sessions, I am going to need to setup a large mirror somewhere. That is the next task at hand...
Another big difference is that because I am already working out (stair climber 500 calories a workout/ 4 days week and Zumba 2-3 days a week), my current hooping is not really for maintaining fitness but for excelling my SKILL/TALENT. I am going to focus my hooping sessions on slower moves that don't take the wind out of me. Due to this, I am going to alter the hooping time/frequency.
I need to maximize my muscle memory. To do this, I must hoop EVERYDAY for 10 minutes. This is not a daunting number that sends chills down my spine. I can go upstairs and do this while hubby watches the babe (She tends to walk right into my hooping session and I will need uninterrupted focus to really practice.
Today when I was slowing down after sweating bullets for 15 minutes straight, I worked on my isolations. They were so sloppy and all over the place! I couldn't believe it. I'm sure my muscle fatigue had a small part in it... but I couldn't get it PERFECT like I was able to at the end of my other 100 hoop challenge.
In order to maximize my at-home perfection sessions, I am going to need to setup a large mirror somewhere. That is the next task at hand...
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Day 1: Hooping Challenge while PREGNANT
I found out a few weeks ago that I will not be bringing another precious being in the world in February. I am ecstatic! However I am only 7 pounds away from my pre-pregnancy weight from before.. so that is a bit of a surprise. However I have a good feeling about this time. First off, I have one Hoop Challenge under my belt and I have a lot of energy to start this pregnancy off with another Challenge!
I am also very excited about putting together a video production for my Prenatal Hooping video this fall. I am starting my search for mommy-to-be's like me who know how to hoop or who want to learn. My video will be very easy for beginners and I want it to incorporate both hooping and yoga. AND NO FAKE BELLIES! I want women who are REALLY pregnant. And this is a paid position... This is my first time mentioning it on the web and as soon as I get my prenatalhooping.com website up I will put up official applications.
Onward: I am going to do a 3.5 hours/week hoop challenge this time. I know this is a better choice for me since I already have a 19 month old and a 28 year old to take care (husband.) And I am starting a lot of new projects, not to mention I need to convince my landlord to sell me this house (its so inexpensive and I want to write off my house for taxes since I use it!)... so there's a lot on my table, but hooping is already happening for me almost everyday.
I just got through with a 4 day no-workout stretch (although I was doing chores and standing 10 hours each day at work). However not going to the gym has a way of giving a person more energy. I still want to lose that last 7 pounds AND be pregnant. My BMI is "Above Average" and I know my nutrition is plentiful enough to accommodate a nursing toddler and a growing fetus for the next few months. I'd like to weigh the same as I do now while 9 months pregnant and then lose the baby weight and be 135-140. That sounds GREAT to me!
I will attempt to hoop at least 15 minutes everday, but I know there will be somedays where it gets put off and I end up hooping for an hour one day without counting! That's just how it works for me. And I will also mind what TIME I hoop. During the last challenge I put off hooping til too late and then it didn't happen.
Video of the day?:
I am also very excited about putting together a video production for my Prenatal Hooping video this fall. I am starting my search for mommy-to-be's like me who know how to hoop or who want to learn. My video will be very easy for beginners and I want it to incorporate both hooping and yoga. AND NO FAKE BELLIES! I want women who are REALLY pregnant. And this is a paid position... This is my first time mentioning it on the web and as soon as I get my prenatalhooping.com website up I will put up official applications.
Onward: I am going to do a 3.5 hours/week hoop challenge this time. I know this is a better choice for me since I already have a 19 month old and a 28 year old to take care (husband.) And I am starting a lot of new projects, not to mention I need to convince my landlord to sell me this house (its so inexpensive and I want to write off my house for taxes since I use it!)... so there's a lot on my table, but hooping is already happening for me almost everyday.
I just got through with a 4 day no-workout stretch (although I was doing chores and standing 10 hours each day at work). However not going to the gym has a way of giving a person more energy. I still want to lose that last 7 pounds AND be pregnant. My BMI is "Above Average" and I know my nutrition is plentiful enough to accommodate a nursing toddler and a growing fetus for the next few months. I'd like to weigh the same as I do now while 9 months pregnant and then lose the baby weight and be 135-140. That sounds GREAT to me!
I will attempt to hoop at least 15 minutes everday, but I know there will be somedays where it gets put off and I end up hooping for an hour one day without counting! That's just how it works for me. And I will also mind what TIME I hoop. During the last challenge I put off hooping til too late and then it didn't happen.
Video of the day?:
Monday, May 9, 2011
Starting up a Hoop Challenge: Rules
Its time to start another hoop challenge! How long do I do it this time?
I like 100 days but it is not to be entered into lightly. Hooping everyday is something you enter into after weeks of gradually hooping more and more often. For instance, the past week, I hooped 4 days. That's pretty decent. How long? About 5 hours. Also decent... Now; do I want to hoop 3.5 hours a week or 30 min. a day?
I'll shoot for 30 minutes a day. If that starts transforming into 3.5 hours a week, what's meant to be will be... and I am not going to fight it. This challenge is meant to be fun! I will write the days into my calendar as I did last time. I will also write "A: for arm weight lifting, L: for leg weight lifting, Z: for Zumba aerobic class, KB: for Step Kick-boxing class, or S: for spinning" These will really help my hooping. Despite a regimen of the above workouts over the past month, I have easily fit hooping into the mix. All thanks to my lovely man who watches our daughter while I run to the gym to honor my bodytemple. Thanks HAROLD! Kisskiss.
My super supreme overall goal after this challenge is to somehow integrate hooping with a break dancing move. After breaking my ankle almost 2 years ago I still have wobbly legs. I need the strength training to help my muscles rebuild so that I have confidence to execute these moves without wariness. I am even scared to do a left handed cartwheel! My leftedness needs assistance. I will also be trying to do more left-spinning hoop moves to equal myself out.
I will be posting a trick I am trying to master from YouTube. I am always trying to get one down, and I don't mind sharing which ones intrigue me most. Today's is the triple jump! I love how hoppy this kid is. I never seem to jump off the ground enough.
I really like this boy's enthusiasm and his accent!
I will start my challenge very soon, I just want the timing to be right.
I like 100 days but it is not to be entered into lightly. Hooping everyday is something you enter into after weeks of gradually hooping more and more often. For instance, the past week, I hooped 4 days. That's pretty decent. How long? About 5 hours. Also decent... Now; do I want to hoop 3.5 hours a week or 30 min. a day?
I'll shoot for 30 minutes a day. If that starts transforming into 3.5 hours a week, what's meant to be will be... and I am not going to fight it. This challenge is meant to be fun! I will write the days into my calendar as I did last time. I will also write "A: for arm weight lifting, L: for leg weight lifting, Z: for Zumba aerobic class, KB: for Step Kick-boxing class, or S: for spinning" These will really help my hooping. Despite a regimen of the above workouts over the past month, I have easily fit hooping into the mix. All thanks to my lovely man who watches our daughter while I run to the gym to honor my bodytemple. Thanks HAROLD! Kisskiss.
My super supreme overall goal after this challenge is to somehow integrate hooping with a break dancing move. After breaking my ankle almost 2 years ago I still have wobbly legs. I need the strength training to help my muscles rebuild so that I have confidence to execute these moves without wariness. I am even scared to do a left handed cartwheel! My leftedness needs assistance. I will also be trying to do more left-spinning hoop moves to equal myself out.
I will be posting a trick I am trying to master from YouTube. I am always trying to get one down, and I don't mind sharing which ones intrigue me most. Today's is the triple jump! I love how hoppy this kid is. I never seem to jump off the ground enough.
I really like this boy's enthusiasm and his accent!
I will start my challenge very soon, I just want the timing to be right.
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